Lecturing & Writing
Another Kettle of Fish Altogether
18 Ormond Quay Upper, D07 AK15, Dublin
Talks Programme: Saturday 21st June 2025
11:00am to 1:30pm
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A series of three public talks will be hosted at the exhibition venue, offering deeper
engagement with ideas at the heart of ADKoFA:
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• 11:30 AM – Stone Mad
A talk by Dominic Keogh (Stonemason) , MC’d by Cliodhna Prendergast (Writer and
photographer)
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• 12:15 PM – Craft and Culture: Temperature check
A panel discussion featuring Róisín de Buitléar (Artist and craft advocate) , Aisling
Farinella (Creative director and stylist) , and Michael ‘Muck’ Murphy (Furniture and
sculpture - Non-violent Cutlery)
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• 1:00 PM – In Conversation with Jim Behan (84 year old Carlow based Ceramicist)
A candid dialogue exploring practice, place, and process
A Hometree Publication 2025
Dinnseanchas
Dinnseanchas – Visions of Ireland’s Uplands is a collection of 20 essays that explores the layers, tapestries and complexities entangled in Ireland’s precious hills and mountains through explorations, reflections, research, conversations and art.
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Glass Ireland Publication 2024
Reviving Glass Waste
for Art and Sustainability
in Murano
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. A residency at the Wave Murano Glass works on the Island of Murano was the starting point of this work. In this article she chronicles the approach and progress of the work to date. Part of the Venice Glass Week Projects.
Glass Ireland Publication 2022
An Crann Balún
Tá lúcháir orm an t-alt seo a bheith foilsithe i mo theanga dhúchais féin san eagrán is déanaí de Glass Ireland. Is é an chéad cheann i stair an chumainn. Ní aistrítear é agus suíonn sé mar phíosa i measc na n-alt eile go léir. Le huirlisí cosúil le scanadh aistritheoirí ar Google ciallaíonn sé gur féidir aon cheann dár n-alt i dteanga ar bith a aistriú go teanga ar bith agus ligean sé don scríbhneoir iad féin a chur in iúl, ina gcuid féin.
Míle buíochas le Fiona Byrne an teagarthóir, agus Anna Moran cathaoirleach an choiste as an tábhacht a bhaineann leis seo dúinne a labhraíonn Gaeilge chuile lá a aithint.
Irish Arts Review
Winter edition 2022/ Design section - Lucinda Robertson
Signature tableware; beakers, wine glasses, jugs and bowls of simple lines in luscious colours echo Lucinda Robertson's Scandinavian training and aesthetic. She is one of a handful independent glassblowers in Ireland and increasingly her practice is becoming more challenging to continue.
Online panel discussion
Generation co-curator Muireann Charleton chaired panel discussion with exhibition makers, ceramic artist Katharine West, knife maker Hugo Byrne and artist Róisín de Buitléar. Makers discuss the experience of growing up within creative families, reflecting on archival pieces in the exhibition and the legacy of previous generations. The panel highlights the makers life-long immersive experiences in a craft culture, and considers what a future Culture of Making might look like.
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MAKE2020
7 March
Times
10:00 to 17:00
Address
CIT Cork School of Music Stack Theatre Union Quay Cork
MAKE 2020 will focus on the labour of art, its value in social and economic contexts, the status of the handmade and of the factory.
MAKE 2020 is hosted by CIT Crawford College of Art and Design.
Speakers:
DR. DANIELLE CHILD UK, AN EDUCATOR AND AUTHOR ON ISSUES OF ART AND LABOUR:
and Artists:
SARAH BROWNE IRELAND
ANNE WILSON USA
CLARE TWOMEY UK
RÓISÍN DE BUITLÉAR IRELAND
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Róisín de Buitléar will speak on the Value of Advocacy
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Understanding the impact arts and culture plays on the wider society is critical to shaping and developing arguments in favour of sustained public investment in arts and culture.
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In Waterford there has never been a more important time to stimulate debate, work in partnership with the community and share information, so that the benefits of its glassmaking culture are discussed as a mainstream issue.
Driving the development of evidence and research in Waterford of the significance and validity of its glassmaking culture, has been to the fore of Róisín de Buitléar’s practice for the past twenty five years. This presentation will examine how working with local communities, city councils, the Design and Crafts Council and national and international museums have created opportunites for engagement, experience and retelling of histories to advocate for evaluating and driving change for a new future for glass in Ireland Using a bottom up approach, she will share how society, education, economy, and health can be impacted through valueing current assets.
Placemaking
InternTIONAL FESTIVAL OF GLASS
Stourbridge
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What is Placemaking, where can we find effective examples in the world and what can we learn from them?
Chair of the British Glass Biennale, Róisín de Buitléar, will be joined by Brandi Clark, Executive Director of the Glass Arts Society, and Eivind Falk, Director of the Norwegian Crafts Institute.
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Creating Allure
Lecture at An Ghrianán Co Louth
Creating Allure was the subject of Róisín de Buitléar's lecture at the annual Traditional Lacemakers of Ireland workshop this September. Covering: concept, design, function and decorative motifs, Róisín emcouraged the audience to look to traditional patterns of lacemaking to maintain authenticity while challenging them to become more creative about what was being made and look for more relevant contexts for new work.
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'A tradition stays alive only when it is constantly being reinvented' Olivier Brault Foundation of Bettencourt Schueller
Frequently invited as an international speaker on contemporary glass her recent lectures have included; Mise Eire at National Museum of Ireland, ‘Home’ at Maynooth University, ‘Waterford the Glass City’ International engagements include: San Jose Art museum, Best practice case study on behalf of CIAV Meisenthal France, Innocrafts conference Finland, European Glass Biennale Denmark on behalf of Glass Is Tomorrow, and the Glass Art Society Conference USA/
Her recent published written works on Glass include; ‘A Golden Odyssey ‘the opening chapter of Ulysses Cylinders by Dale Chihuly Seaver Leslie 2014, ‘A New Age of Glass’, Mondo Darc Design Magazine 2013 GB. ‘Context and Culture’ TL Design Magazine 2013 Belgium. Emma Bourke; Irish Arts review.
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