This is an opportunity to try out pottery in your own private 3 hour lesson for 2 with Adam. Suitable for all levels, from beginners to improvers. The emphasis will be on having fun and making a variety of pots. Students will each select their best pots to be fired. These will be glaze fired … Continue reading Pottery Taster for 2 with Adam Frew
Have you become hooked on The Great Pottery Thrown Down? Have you ever wanted to make your own teapot? With expert tuition from Helen Faulkner you will learn step by step how to create your own ceramics pieces. Learn a range of skills including slab building and coil work to design and craft beautiful pottery. … Continue reading Handbuilding Workshop (evenings)
Join tutor Andrea McCullough-Alderdice and explore the potter’s wheel and full range of hand-building techniques from pinch pots to coil and slab building, whilst experimenting with slips, velvet underglazes and a full range of glazes. Please note, the course will take place on Wednesdays 1 May – 5 June.
The Island Arts Centre are delighted to invite you to the preview for two new exhibitions on Saturday 4 May at 4pm. KEITH SHEPPARD - Art In Glass | 4 May - 1 June Following a life changing accident in 2009, resulting in paralysis from the waist down, Keith defied medical opinion by walking seven … Continue reading Keith Sheppard – Art In Glass
An exciting course which includes a traditional and contemporary approach to jewellery making and design. You will be guided through the basics of annealing, cutting, soldering, doming, texturing and the use of safe enamelling to build towards a little jewellery collection. Materials and tools: basic materials including copper sheet and wire will be given as … Continue reading Silver Jewellery Making Workshop
Join Adam Frew for this two day workshop - classes will be small groups of 4-6 students, suitable for all levels, from beginners to improvers. The emphasis of the class will be on using the potter’s wheel to make a variety of thrown porcelain vessels. Students will be guided through the basics of throwing and … Continue reading Throwing Workshop with Adam Frew
Explore sculptures and artworks in the beautiful surroundings of The Walled Garden at Bangor Castle. ForM Sculpture Exhibition gives visitors the unique opportunity to experience art in a different context, outside the traditional gallery setting. This year's exhibition features over 40 sculptures from artists across Ireland - some of the works are of large scale … Continue reading ForM Sculpture Exhibition
‘Re:New Wallace #7’ is the seventh in a series of collaborative cultural projects involving a Northern Irish artist and the Wallace Collection in London. This is an extraordinary collection encompassing paintings and decorative art objects collected from around the world by Sir Richard Wallace and his predecessors. The project provided a residency opportunity to visual … Continue reading c
In this full day workshop, Donna will lead you through her process for hand-building using hump molds and decorating a dish. Her aim is to encourage potters to consider the decoration of their piece at the make stage rather than after bisque firing a piece. Decoration will be applied using a mono-printing method, which allows … Continue reading Transferring Images to Clay with Donna Bloye, Winner of the Pottery Throwdown
Elements of Place - Formed by Fire is a 5 day flamework, filati (hand pulled glass threads) and micro-mosaic workshop aimed specifically at practicing glass and mosaic artists. The workshop is designed to expand creative practices through exploration of these complementary hot and cold glass working techniques, in combination with simple casting, use of found … Continue reading Elements of Place – Formed by Fire
The Glass Society of Ireland, in collaboration with The Council of Irish Fashion Designers, is delighted to present a unique exhibition of wearable glass at Craft NI Gallery, Belfast opening on June 6th 2024 and running until July 25, 2024. This show is aimed at addressing gender equality, diversity and inclusion in the fashion world … Continue reading ‘Glass Runway’
Learn the processes that artist Anne Butler uses to integrate pattern into porcelain as well as some of the construction techniques that Anne uses! At the end of the workshop you will have created your own sheets of porcelain using porcelain paper clay with an integrated and inlaid pattern and will have successfully constructed your … Continue reading Porcelain Paper Clay with Anne Butler
Learn how to carve and texture your own pendant design using an ancient technique used for the last 7,000 years. Guided by Martin and Laura from Cameron & Breen, you will learn about lost wax casting, how to effectively use wax carving tools and shown how to hand carve and texture your pendant in wax … Continue reading Make a Pendant Wax Workshop
Catherine O'Connor is a self-taught tapestry artist currently based in Dublin. She established her studio practice in 2019 with the purpose of capturing the essence of a person in woven tapestries. Catherine is drawn to portraiture in an effort to capture the variations and nuances in a person’s features and expression. For YES 2024, Catherine … Continue reading A Commission by YES
Morta Jonynaité is a textile artist from Vilnius who will exhibit her beautiful, fragile textiles exhibition ‘Never Drying Towels’ in St. Columb’s Hall, a former, popular entertainment venue for the hundreds of Derry’s Factory Girls. ‘Never Drying Towels’ is a series of hand-woven towels inspired by Lithuanian folk traditions. In the past, towels on hand-carved … Continue reading Never Drying Towels
'Northern Ambience' is an exhibition of original art by local textile artist Andrea Hayes. Working from her home studio in Cookstown, Andrea draws inspiration from the vast array of textures, colours and dramatic skylines of the Irish landscape. Each piece is a unique collage created in Andrea’s distinctive style; hand painted, layered with appliquéd hand … Continue reading Andrea Hayes | Northern Ambience
Learn how to carve and texture your own pendant design using an ancient technique used for the last 7,000 years. Guided by Martin and Laura from Cameron & Breen you will learn about lost wax casting, how to effectively use wax carving tools and shown how to hand carve and texture your pendant in wax … Continue reading Make at pendant wax workshop
Jennifer Cunningham is a local textile artist who works out of her home in Dundrum, County Down. She specialises in beautiful felted scenery and landscape pieces of her local surroundings getting inspiration from the Mournes and surrounding areas. Come join Jennifer as she takes you through the needle felting process to create your own felted … Continue reading Felted Landscapes with Jennifer Cunningham
Join in for a creative two-part ceramics workshop with Jakki Trainor of Figment Ceramics using your pet, real or dreamed of, as inspiration. In this two-part workshop you will create a relief clay panel of a chosen pet or favourite animal. Cats, dogs, guinea pigs, terrapins can be immortalised in your clay creation! You will … Continue reading Ceramic Pet Portrait Workshop
Taking place as part of Belfast International Arts Festival, come along to see Threads of Empowerment: Conflict Textiles’ International Journey. People across the world have communicated their experiences of violence and conflict, human rights violations, poverty, oppression and environmental issues through the form of textile narrative. The result is a visual record and a form … Continue reading Threads of Empowerment: Conflict Textiles’ International Journey
Learn the processes that artist Anne Butler uses to integrate pattern into porcelain as well as some of the construction techniques that Anne uses! At the end of the workshop you will have created your own sheets of porcelain using porcelain paper clay with an integrated and inlaid pattern and will have successfully constructed your … Continue reading Porcelain Paper Clay with Anne Butler
Join in for a creative two-part ceramics workshop with Jakki Trainor of Figment Ceramics using your pet, real or dreamed of, as inspiration. In this two-part workshop you will create a relief clay panel of a chosen pet or favourite animal. Cats, dogs, guinea pigs, terrapins can be immortalised in your clay creation! You will … Continue reading Ceramic Pet Portrait Workshop