Earth Rising Festival
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Dublin IMMA
Sept 12th - 14th 2025
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Dinnseanchas is an immersive project that explores Ireland’s upland communities through art, music, and storytelling.
Led by Hometree and supported by Creative Ireland’s Creative Climate Action fund, the project brings together seven artists embedded in six distinct upland regions: William Bock (Coomhola and Borlin Valleys, Co. Cork),
Síomha Brock (Uíbh Ráthach, Co. Kerry), Zoë Rush (Corca Dhuibhne, Co. Kerry), Róisín de Buitléar (Gartan, Co. Donegal). Heather Griffin and Patrick Mulvihill (Lyreacrompane, Co. Kerry) and
Peadar-Tom Mercier (An Mám, Connemara, Co. Galway),
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During Earth Rising Festival Róisín will run a series of wprkshops and interactive conversations with the public. Her FarmGate installation will be in situ all weekend in the cetral coutyard. Catch her there each afternoon.
FarmGate
Location: Courtyard
Free, drop-in
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Róisín de Buitléar is a multidisciplinary artist known for her poetic sculptures, performances, and site-specific works that explore culture through glass, language, light, and sound.
During her embedded time for her Dinnseanchas residency, she worked with communities, environmentalists, and farmers in Donegal, concentrating on how transfers of knowledge could continue long- term through lived experiences and demonstrating craft-based activism.
Engaging with large numbers of the farm community and ecologists, she will trial some of the same methods for Earth Rising, meeting and exchanging with urban and urban based rural people, with hands- on making experiences and dialogues.
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Coilte Dúchasacha Ársa / Ancient Native Woodlands—Printing workshop
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Location: Matheson Creativity Hub
Free, drop-in.
Interactive project of hand-printing images taken from layers of the Irish Wild Atlantic Rainforests from hand-engraved glass plates.
This is a family-friendly activity that teaches the process of Mono printing and ecology simultaneously—workshops will be conducted in Irish and English.
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A remaining fragment of the Irish Atlantic rainforesxt in Gartan Donegal
Engraved glass plates for printing
INFLOW EXHIBITION
SZENTENDRE & BUDAPEST
Hungary
International, Open, Juried Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition
August 29 - September 19, 2025.
Theme: “Narrative Space Transformation”
Participants explore the transformative power of narrative through the making of small wearable objects and how they interface with a wider audience – the viewer.”
– Dr. Jack Cunningham Juror
The exhibitions will take place between August 29 and September 19, 2025, in Hungary’s two outstanding centers of art:
Szentendre – the city of arts – and Budapest.
August 29 - September 19, 2025.
Budapest, OPENING: August 29
Romanian Cultural Institute Budapest Iszó u. 5.
Szentendre August 30
Szentendre, Bogdányi út 32 2000
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Climate Hero Award - Waste glass and textiles.
Another kettle Of Fish altogether
18 Ormond Quay Upper, D07 AK15
Dublin
21–27 June 2025, 11AM-7PM
Dlúth agus Inneach
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Tweed is a woven memory, an identity of place, an environmental witness. In Donegal, tweed is rooted in the essence of place; in the process of making, it connects with the land though inherited skills of spinning, dying, and weaving. Its materials are drawn from the land, and the generations of farmers adapting to methods and practices through years of production. Tweed is woven slowly, in small and rare quantities, using the essence of nature to inspire patterns and textures. The history of making through characteristics of materiality and tacit knowledge has led to it developing its own subtleties which reflect its uniqueness.
This work, taken from research made during her residency at the National Museum of Ireland, tweed becomes an ecoregional artefact, a memory keeper, a map, not just of topography, but a land memory. Weaving as a form of environmental thought, is part of an ongoing conversation around cultural continuity, sustainability, and resonance of the land. When viewed as a landscape, tweed invites us to see the earth not as a resource but a human scale connection to the land, something we are part of, not apart from. Can this connection inspire environmental recovery through identity of culture and place? Can weaving tweed and other indigenous craft practices become a tool in the activism of ecological change?
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Curated By Dee Morgan Smyth of Fort.ie
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ADKoFA is borne from curiosity — about the process of craftwork, its representation, and the
potential for doing things differently. This exhibition asks what happens when we throw
things at the wall and see what sticks: connection between people, expression through
material, and the recovery of meaning in a world increasingly disconnected from making.
Bringing together a flourishing community of Irish craftspeople, artists, and companies
working at the frontier of contemporary making, ADKoFA fosters dialogue at the intersection
of creativity and commerce. It celebrates the human element of the made world — inviting
audiences not only to see and hold, but to be seen and held in return.
At its core, ADKoFA is about the sensuality of craft — derived from the latin, sentire
"perceive, feel, know”, the deep, physical relationship between body, material, and form.
These makers work not just with their hands, but with their whole selves. The objects they
produce are extensions of their attention, their gestures, their instincts. This is craft as
an act of intimacy — where the gratification of the senses is not only the maker’s
experience, but the viewer’s too. To touch, to see, to feel: this exhibition invites the
audience into a shared, sensual space where making becomes a form of connection. A
connection to not only ourselves but the land, a reclamation.
Dlúth agus Inneach -
Donegal Tweed from the collection of the National Museum Of Ireland
Edition of 5.
Finnish Glass Biennale
Riihimäen Lasi Riihimäki Finland
5- 8th June 2025
Finnish Glass Biennale 2025: A celebration of tradition and creativity
The Finnish Glass Biennale will take place in Riihimäki, Nuutajärvi, and Iittala. Key venues include the Finnish Glass Museum located in Riihimäki’s former glass factory, as well as the historic industrial premises of Riihimäen Lasi. The programme will feature professional seminars, expert-led tours, exhibitions of Finnish
art glass, and satellite events produced in collaboration with the local creative community.
Curator Akira Minagawa, a renowned Japanese fashion and textile designer, sets the foundation for its future of the Finnish Glass Biennale The goal of the Finnish Glass Biennale is to grow into a globally significant institution. The FGB also aims to expand beyond traditional glass art, inviting creatives from various fields to explore the limitless potential of glass.
A growing appreciation for handcrafted glass
The knowledge and traditions of handcrafted glass were recently added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage lists. With a growing appreciation for artisanal craftsmanship and a demand for individually produced art and design objects, the Finnish Glass Biennale responds to this global interest by uniting professionals, collectors, and enthusiasts of glass art. The event offers locals and cultural travelers a unique opportunity to experience art that bridges tradition with modern creativity.
The Finnish Glass Biennale will take place in 5–8 June 2025
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​WEB OF LIES EXHIBITION:
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Scrolling social media we are hungry for images for information of the world
outside from which we live.
However, when we witness atrocities and injustices.
WE SEE BUT WE DO NOT SEE
We see but we don’t feel
We are the witnesses
We act as if we are blind
We are blinded
WE CANNOT BE THE BYSTANDERS
Bearing witness is our truth
WE CANNOT SAY WE DID NOT KNOW
This work is inspired by the images of captive blindfolded Palestinian prisoners in Gaza many of them children. The red beads are symbols of bloodshed and patterns from the barbed wire of the prison cages. The materials chosen for this work are to honour Glass -originally from Palestine and white thread emulating gauze the material that protects wounds that also originally came form Gaza. I am making this work to bring the conversation of genocide in Gaza to the international glass community and wider world.
If you think there are a lot of beads in this work, this equates to is only a tiny fraction of the children who have been murdered during this genocide.
Climate hero awards Fusion exhibtion
FUSION 2024 – Biennial of Contemporary Glass Jewellery organised by MAVA – Museum of Contemporary Glass Art in Alcorcón, Fundesarte and WCCE
3 April 2024 - September 2024 at the MAVA, Alcorcón, Spain,
FUSION 2024 – Biennial of Contemporary Glass Jewellery organised by MAVA – Museum of Contemporary Glass Art in Alcorcón, Fundesarte and WCCE is pleased to announce the creators selected to showcase their work at the biennial exhibition.
The open call for submissions received applications from all over Europe, with 87 creators from 26 different countries submitting a total of 171 pieces for consideration. A jury of experts from various sectors carefully reviewed the submissions and selected 30 creators and 50 pieces to be featured in the biennial exhibition. As noted by the jury, the selected creators and their pieces draw inspiration from nature and express environmental concerns through their work, advocating for sustainability and raising awareness about issues like climate change. Furthermore, they fuse personal narratives and emotions into their pieces, exploring themes of identity and personal vulnerability, while also experimenting with techniques and materials.
FUSION 2024 will take place from 3 April 2024 at the MAVA, Alcorcón, Spain, to coincide with the European Artistic Crafts Days 2024.
Presented by Crafts Council UK and celebrating its 20th year, Collect is the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design, representing the pinnacle of artistry and creativity.
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The evidence is Clear
The world is warming at alarming rates. We know it and yet we are not acting with the urgency to slow it down. The evidence is right there in front of us, but somehow we distort that truth and look through it. This piece demands you to look at this distortion of glass mass, made with fire, its suspended in the the distorted frame, while the world continues in the background. We need
“We now understand this problem, we know how to stop the number increasing, and put it in reverse. We must stop carbon emissions this decade. We must recapture billions of tons of carbon from the air. We must fix our sights on keeping 1.5 degrees within reach.”
The world is on fire. We need to see this as an emergency. Dry rivers, wild fires and dramatically changing weather patterns. We are part of the problem, but also part of the solution’. “As a species, we are expert problem solvers. But we haven’t yet applied ourselves to this problem with the focus it requires.”
David Attenborough
Presented by Crafts Council UK and celebrating its 20th year, Collect is the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design, representing the pinnacle of artistry and creativity.
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Precious Cargo - Hidden treasure series
Hidden Treasure is a project undertaken by Róisín de Buitléar in Murano, Venice in September 2023. The aim of the project is to explore the creative potential of glass waste as a viable material for design and art work. As islanders the Venetian and Irish glass communities must deal with disposing of waste every day.
Lying in boxes, cartons and shelves all over Murano are sculpted elements, broken shards, mirrored slabs, and twisted canes of glass. Daily as hundreds of glass objects are being made, tonnes of glass waste is being created. As the impact of climate change becomes more apparent, examining how reusing waste glass as a raw material for creative solutions becomes an urgent action to undertake. This precious commodity is the starting point for design ideas for income streams with real solutions for reuse. The intention is to create circularity and create a desire for its reuse.
Precious Cargo - Hidden treasure series
Precious Cargo - Hidden treasure series
This project was supported by Culture Ireland
Children Of Lir
Showing at Quiet Eyes Exhibition
I am of Ireland Gallery- Feb 17th - March 31st 2024
www.iamofireland.ie
Children Of Lir - Blown Glass Diamond Point Engraved 340mm x 110mm
‘Clann Lir’ is an old Irish legend based on a story of magic, jealousy and endurance. As often in Irish legends, the story doesn’t end well, it involves incarcerating children & has a dark side.
I’ve often wondered if the story relates to migrating swans, disappearing for months and then reappearing in winter in Ireland. We have three species of swan in Ireland The Mute, Whooper and Bewick.
Thousands of geese and swans migrate from Iceland, Greenland and Canada to spend the winter in Ireland. Many of these species are of conservation concern. As climate warms and natural feeding lands become fewer it has become evident that having the wetlands to support them is essential to their existence. Ireland’s waterbirds are indicators of the health of the wetland environment they use. Hundreds of citizen scientists and NPWS and BirdWatch Ireland staff across Ireland take part in bird monitoring surveys every year.
Bewick’s Swans nest in Arctic Russia during the summer and winter in northern Europe, the UK and Ireland. As climate change has caused milder winters on the continent, many Bewick’s Swans have been ‘short-stopping’, that is, not flying as far as Ireland, simply because they don’t need to anymore. Migration is a hugely difficult undertaking, so they won’t burn through their energy and fat reserves if they don’t have to.
exhibition work
Rian - Blown glass
320mm x 180mm Showing at 35th Salonul Sticlei Bucharest Romania April 2023
Rian Blown Glass
150 x 300mm
Breaking News - Blown glass, paper -Textile
Showing at Ireland Glass Biennale April 27th - August 15th Dublin Castle
Breaking News - Blown glass, paper -Textile Showing at Ireland Glass Biennale April 27th - August 15th Dublin Castle
Sinking island - Showing at RHA annual exhibition Dublin April 20th - May 30th
Sinking island - Showing at RHA annual exhibition Dublin April 20th - May 30th
murmurations 250 x 220 x 180mm Blown glass with engraving
murmurations 250 x 220 x 180mm Blown glass with engraving
Glass is Biotiful
Biot France
Fragile Breath (Visor)
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Made during the Covid 19 Pandemic, this unique piece was made in response to respiratory awareness during this viral spread. Inspired by lace veils on millinery, the now familiar visor, a stallworth item of safety equipment in the glass workshop has been transformed to being a line of defence in respiratory illness. The lace pattern is taken from an existing French lace work, and is reminiscent of bronchial networks in the lungs.
An international juried exhibition of 30 works by artists from 17 countries is on view at in Biot Cote d'Azur France until 30th November 2022 as part of the Biot International festival of Glass
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Glass Glamour 2022
Quenington, Glostersire UK
Recent research on climate change has inspired these two pieces recently made at Berengo studios Murano.
Our planet and our futures are hanging in the balance
L26 xW 4cm x H15cm Solid hot sculpted glass smoke grey with yellow solid ovoid Showing at The Society of Women Artists Mall Galleries London
Storm Surge
30 x 42 cm
Blown Incalmo & solid sculpted aquamarine and clear glass
Sinking Island
L26 xW 4cm x H15cm Solid hot sculpted glass smoke grey with green solid ovoid.
IRISH CRAFT HEROES
Ulster Museum
October 25th - Jan 2023
Irish Craft Heroes, a major exhibition celebrating 50 years of Irish craft, coincides with Design & Crafts Council Ireland's (DCCI) 50th Anniversary since its establishment in 1971. To mark this landmark occasion, the National Design & Craft Gallery has produced an outdoor, touring exhibition and publication charting the evolution of the craft and design sector in Ireland over the last 50 years, paying homage to the many makers whose work has contributed to the rich tapestry of craft and design practice in Ireland.
Irish Craft Heroes exhibition will launch in Kilkenny from 23 July to 06 October 2021; touring to Dublin Castle from October to December 2021; and continuing to GMIT Centre for Creative Arts & Media, Galway city in spring 2022 – with further venues to be announced.
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Through a public open call, Design & Crafts Council Ireland invited its members, GANS, partners, and the wider craft and design sector to nominate their #IrishCraftHero: ‘to celebrate makers whose work has significant legacy, has heralded new approaches or changed the way we look at the world.’
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Róisín de Buitléar was selected as one of the 50 artists to be celebrated in this exhibition
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MADE IN IRELAND
5TH octoBER 2022 – 21st january 2023
FE MCWilliams Gallery
Banbridge
Northern Ireland
'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
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
Fragile Correspondance
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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
Fragile Correspondance
Engraved Glass
Amy West &
Róisín de Buitléar
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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BEST OF EUROPE EXHIBITION
Homo Faber
BEST OF EUROPE EXHIBITION
14th - 30 Sept
venue: The Fondazione Giorgio Cini, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy
Crafting a more human future
Homo Faber is an inspiring exhibition of European craftsmanship, an international cultural event to showcase fine contemporary, traditional and rare craftsmanship and its link to the world of creativity and design.Homo Faber covers a wide range of materials and disciplines and celebrates the human spirit and talent of the creators.
Hundreds of exceptional works created by some 150 artist-artisans from all over Europe will be on display in Venice this September in the Homo Faber exhibit Best of Europe, stunningly displayed in a room envisioned and designed by renowned Italian architect Stefano Boeri. Róisín de Buitléar has been selected to exhibit three works in this exceptional show.
directions and opening hours available here:
https://www.homofaberevent.com/en/san-giorgio-maggiore-island-venice
We explore sound captured in glass in this beautiful exhibition of work by Irish glass artist Róisín de Buitléar, which forms part of the TradFest Children’s Hub 2018.
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Featuring pieces from Róisín’s Irish Incantation/Ortha series, the exhibition features a series of beautiful glass objects that capture the essence of musical sound and pitch in glass form. Some of the sculptures are made to evoke the sound and duration of a musical note, others will remind you of musical instruments that look like they could be played.
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In fact while you are visiting the exhibition, you will see a video of them being played by musicians Liam Ó Maonlaí and Peter O’Toole along with hearing Róisín talking about the inspiration for her work.
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Alongside the exhibition display will be a fun interactive glass sound exploring area using glass objects found in everyday life that will enable you to try out making your own glass music.
venue: The ARK Cultural Centre for Children. Temple Bar, Dublin.
directions and opening hours available here:
