'Made In Ireland celebrates the wealth and vibrancy of Ireland's studio crafts. The exhibition presents work by over 110 craftspeople each creating beautiful, considered objects using skills honed over many years.

Ireland’s makers, working in and across different sectors, are creating innovative work of high quality.

Makers work in local and carefully sourced materials, across all regions of our island. Some are household names, but most work away quietly perfecting their skill and promoting their work regionally. The Irish public has shown itself to have a lively interest in craft, however, is largely unaware of the diverse range and quality of work being produced in the country by skilled makers.

At a time when many are showing a considerable preference and appreciation for goods that are Irish made, we can think of no better time to create a colourful, inclusive exhibition that shows the very best of what is MADE IN IRELAND'. Design and Crafts Council Of Ireland 

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Curated by Stephen O Connell and Hilary Morley

ISLANDERS - When darkness falls, is a collaborative borderless artwork by Island artists that straddles giant continents and powers, and encompasses wider world thinking from a basis of small singular actions. A Live Event – Unique to place and culture

A light projection artwork particular to a location, creating a gathering of community, sharing culture, language, geography, craft, tradition, and innovation

ISLANDERS aims to create a worldwide community base of Island artists working with GLASS by giving global visibility to a heretofore, unmapped island community. Working from individual perspectives to make a collaborative project, ISLANDERS maps how without borders or prejudice, positive gestures can result in supporting each other. The project invites discussion around how living on an island can inspire and influence artwork, business and community. Through this it examines how independence and dependence, affects communities to drive change, create identities and build on connections with other island nations.

Róisín de Buitléar has collaborated with artists from Islands around the world using original artworks created on miniature glass slides. Over 50 artists from 20 different Islands have contributed to the project. Taking old technology of vintage magic lanterns and combining new technology of digital projection this project is an exciting development in an on going interest in projected light and shadow. Engraving, painting, laminating, applique, or transparent decal are some of the ways images have been manipulated to create projectable imagery in glass. The collaborative imagery, particular location and projection will culminate in making the ISLANDERS a unique artwork in multiple venues.

Islanders Participating Islands and artists

Ireland:

Róisín de Buitléar; Sinéad Brennan; Emma Bourke; Michelle O Donnell; Karen Donnellan; Peadar Lamb; Debbie Dawson; Aoife Soden; Jenny Mulligan; Greg Sullivan; Fred Curtis; Peter Young; Emer O Donnell; Marie O Rourke; Sophie Longwill; Laura Ní Chuin; Paula Stokes; James Earley Andrea Spencer; Alison Lowry; Meadhbh Mc Ilgorm

Great Britain

Katharine Colman; Nancy Sutcliffe; Cathryn Shilling; Fiaz Elson; Bernie Stevenson

Alison Kinnard; Siobhán Healy

Belle Isle - France:

Laurianne Blanchard; Regis Anchuelo

USA:

Lopez Island:

Kelly O Dell; Raven Skyriver; Wren Skyriver;

Marthas Vineyard:

Wil Eldridge Sideman

Whidbey Island:

Jason Christian; Katrina Hude; Keke Cribbs

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Soneva Fushi - Maldives:

Erin Barr

Japan,

Honshu:

Shunji Omura; Rui Sasaki  

Japan, Sado:

Minami Oya

New Zealand:

Elizabeth McClure

Italy

Murano

Nico Barbini; Amy West; Matteo Seguso;

Sardinia- Italy:

Pino Cerchi

Faroes - Denmark:

Brandur Patturson

Iceland:

Sigríður Ásgeirsdóttir; Brynhildur Þorgeirsdóttir

Malta:

Margerita Pule

Korea: South Korea Choi Keeryong

Kinali Island - Turkey:

Aysem Ötük

Java -Indonesia:

Patricia Untario

Vänoxa- Finland:

Jarl Hohenthal

Tromsø- Norway:

Silja Skoglund

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8th September - 15th November

BORNHOLM DENMARK

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2 large curated exhibitions at the Bornholm Art Museum and Grønbechs Gård showcase the best of European glass. The exhibitions are curated with personal invitations, as well as an open call, where individual artists, artists associations, individual curators, artists, designers and crafts makers working with glass were able to apply for participation. 

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BORNHOLMS ART MUSEUM 
DENMARK
11-9-2021 - 25-11-2021

Venue{ Amy West Design Studio

Fondamenta Lorenzo Radi 25 3401 Murano

Venice Italy

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AWD Studio presents "Fragile Correspondence", an exhibition of engraved glass communication between Róisín de Buitléar in Ireland, and Amy West in Italy, created especially for The Venice Glass Week 2019.

Two artists united by their passion for glass engraving and the incised line, this ongoing dialog explores the importance of making time to communicate, using glass engraving as their common language. In the exhibition, visitors can see individual and collaborative artwork in glass and paper, the application of various engraving techniques and tools, and the process of printing from engraved plates.

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The exhibition will be opened until 15th November 2019, only upon appointment.

The inauguration of this exhibition will take place on Sunday 8th September, at the same venue.

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