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Design & Crafts Council Ireland’s PORTFOLIO programme is a select group of Ireland’s most talented designers and craftspeople. Inclusion is recognition of practitioners creating work to a standard to be considered worthy by museums, renowned galleries, and discerning collectors. DCCI’s PORTFOLIO programme has been instrumental in building the international reputations and commercial potential of Ireland's … Continue reading Conjuring Form Portfolio Critical Selection 2021-22

Selected jewellery exhibition by 21 ACJSNI members (and invited guest makers) featuring variations on the idea of a brooch. ACJSNI (Association for Contemporary Jewellery and Silversmiths NI) is a regional branch of the Association for Contemporary Jewellery, whose members include those who make jewellery, associated designers and craftspeople, educators, students, galleries, museum curators, retailers, critics, … Continue reading Pinned on Linen

1845: Memento Mori is a famine memorial and glass installation of 1,845 blown glass potatoes dedicated to the 19th-century Great Irish Famine, created by Seattle-based Irish artist Paula Stokes. 1845 is significant as it references the year that the potato blight came to Ireland, marking the beginning of a period of mass starvation, disease, and … Continue reading 1845: Memento Mori

Sculpture in Context is celebrates its 35th anniversary and 20 years exhibiting in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin in Dublin. Bringing together the work of over 140 artists using a wide range of media, the works represent the diverse character of Irish and International contemporary sculpture today. From the smallest, most intricate ceramic works to … Continue reading Sculpture in Context 2021

Intersect presents a collection of sculpture made by Michael Moore since January 2018. It researches mapping of locality. It examines how clay forms interplay and balance, exploring precarious constructions. Grid forms reflect journeys around places of personal importance. Clay forms explore movement and contortion, seeking out unusual, abstracted structures. Michael Moore is Reader in Fine and … Continue reading Michael Moore: Intersect

A new exhibition by Boyle based visual artist Susan Mannion, Beyond Darkness features works of enamel on steel and copper in response to the past few months of living with COVID restrictions. The exhibition includes a large scale enamel work depiction of being contained in a small space and looking towards nature and the outdoors … Continue reading ‘Beyond Darkness’ exhibition by Susan Mannion