During this 1 day spoon carving workshop you will be using traditional tools to shape green wood. The beauty of green wood lies in its ability to be shaped easily as it is soft and easily worked with hand tools. Stephen Ryan from Green Woodwork Ireland will teach you the skills needed to become a traditional … Continue reading Spooncarving 1 day workshop
In partnership with Seaside Revival Vintage Festival, this is a rare chance to make your very own deckchair over the course of two workshops. During the first workshop on 23rd July Claire Dunwoody from Nodo will introduce you to the traditional maritime textile knotting method of macramé, and you will spend the evening beginning the … Continue reading Macramé Deckchair Workshop
The Designerie in Bushmills have resumed their workshops and they're booking up fast! Click here to see a list of their upcoming events. In this workshop you will create a tall ceramic vase for your sunshine cut flowers by using clay slabs / slips and glazes. All ceramics will be taken away to be fired and available … Continue reading Ceramic Tall Vase Workshop
This workshop is designed with both the beginner and the more experienced ceramics student in mind. Those with no experience of clay will be taught the basics of clay working to include the main hand building methods such as coiling, slab-building and press-moulding. Those students returning to ceramics will be given individual attention as required, … Continue reading Ceramics Summer Class at Befast Met
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
We are pleased to share the August Craft Month Calendar of events with you! Northern Ireland’s unique celebration of the craft sector provides opportunities to make, see, learn about and buy craft. For the full listing visit: HERE and stay tuned to our social media for a selection of all things craft this August. This year … Continue reading August Craft Month 2021
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
SPINNING YARNS is a one-day Festival celebrating the wonderful world of all things associated with wool & linen where we will showcase the colour, creativity and craft associated with these homespun yarns in all their forms. Highlights include: Market Place with a wide range of traders, both local and from further afield Craft and Gift … Continue reading Spinning Yarns 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
British Ceramics Biennial returns to Stoke-on-Trent with a vibrant five-week festival of new artist commissions, exhibitions and hands-on events that celebrate the life, character and creativity that ceramics bring to the city. The post-industrial Spode factory site in the heart of Stoke Town will be transformed and animated by the UK’s leading ceramic artists and … Continue reading British Ceramics Biennial