Craft Education Panel
Patricia Gurgel-Segrillo
In my native Brazil, in London and San Francisco, I have trained and worked in a diverse range of disciplines, through oil painting, silk-screen printing, film animat ...
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Lynn Naughton
I am a textile artist living in Roscommon. I design and create wall hangings using a variety of mixed media.
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Gerlinde Kugler
I worked as an artist in textiles, free patchwork and embroidery, silk painting, acrylics, watercolours and pastels. Additionally I learned silversmithing, mosaics an ...
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Fiona Smith-Darragh
Fiona Smith-Darragh was born in Bedfordshire, and brought up in Worcestershire, England. From an early age her great loves were wildlife and horses.
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Michael Ray
Michael was born in England. After finishing his degree in three-dimensional design, he lectured in Art and Design and established a successful pottery business durin ...
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Craft Materials
Ceramics
Ceramics are typically very strong and can be found in watch parts, car spark plugs, electrical conductors, phone lines, appliance coatings, space shuttle & aeroplane nose ...
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Craft Materials
Metal
Sheet, wire, tube, bars and nuggets are some of the forms that metal can be bought in today. Jewellers, blacksmiths and other metalworkers apply a variety of skills, techniques ...
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Craft Materials
New Materials
This refers to both synthetic raw materials and new technologies like laser cutting, water jet cutting, rapid prototyping, motion capturing, interactive magnetic wall coverings ...
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How its made and Who makes it
Castle Arch Pottery
From the series, Stories in the Making. Kilkenny based, Castle Yard Pottery proprietor Ray Power explains how he came to be started out, from initially studying ceramic design, ...
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How its made and Who makes it
Frances Lambe
Frances Lambe talks to the Craft Council of Ireland as pert of our Education and Outreach programme. Frances explains how her Fathers interest in art and its influence on the d ...
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How its made and Who makes it
Edmund deWaal
Ceramic artist and author Edmund de Waal gives his keynote speech, ‘Knowledge in the Making’ at the ‘Craft Concious: Re-Shaping Global Futures in the Innovatio ...
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Look at This
Grayson Perry
‘Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman’ is the Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry’s exhibition and memorial to the anonymous skilled individuals who made object ...
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Lionheart
Artist Shauna Richardson gives a glimpse into what it takes to make a lion out of a lamb…lambswool that is. A project for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
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Schwood ya?
Broken skateboard decks + creativity + craft = Beautiful sunglasses by Schwood.
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What We're up to
Modern Languages
Five international artists and designers with varying relationships to Ireland. The Modern Languages exhibition asks them to reinterpret Irish vernacular craft.
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How The Myth Was Made
Discussion and screening of How The Myth Was Made the making of the documentary Man of Aran and its reinterpretation of Irish vernacular craft. Open to the public, Friday Novem ...
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Man of Aran - Screening
Screening of Flaherty’s controversial 1936 documentary ‘Man of Aran’, in Billy Byrnes Pub, John Street, Kilkenny. Wednesday, November 16th, 8.30pm
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