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Artist Bursary 2024
In modern Irish, dinnseanchas means "topography"; the arrangement of features in a landscape.
However, the word has an older meaning that describes the lore of a place. It is associated with accounts of the place names, traditions, events and characters of particular areas.
Hometree’s Dinnseanchas Project incorporates both of these aspects while taking a forward-looking approach in exploring the communities, landscapes, habitats, and economies of Ireland’s Atlantic uplands.
Lead by a team of artists, ecologists, and communicators, Dinnseanchas aims to support upland communities in understanding the radical role they could play in mitigating the impacts of climate change, the biodiversity crisis, and socio-economic issues such as depopulation.
Dinnseanchas, which is a recipient of the Creative Climate Action – Agents of Change funding, will support a group of artists to do immersive residencies in various communities along Ireland’s western seaboard. During these residencies the artists will listen to communities, facilitate conversations and workshops, engage with the difficult themes of biodiversity loss, agricultural policy and practice, and support an envisioning process that elevates the voices of the community themselves. Their creative responses will trace contours of the past, and chart new paths into the future. The artists will be mentored and guided by experienced voices from the worlds of farming, ecology, language, socially engaged artistic practice, and culture.
London
Presented by Crafts Council and celebrating its 20th year, Collect is the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design, representing the pinnacle of artistry and creativity.
Specialist galleries, dealers and collectives representing 400 artists will gather at Collect 2024 from across the globe.
Each gallery will curate its own display and commission new pieces or bodies of work especially for the fair. Various and eclectic artworks will be showcased: skilfully crafted using ceramic, lacquer, precious metalwork, textiles, fibre, wood, paper and non-traditional materials including resin, mica, cornstarch and plastics as well as re-used, re-purposed and re-cycled materials.
Opening in Sommerset House in London 1st to 3rd of March 3rd
Previews 28th /29th February
20 years of Collect at Design and Crafts Council of Ireland - A group show curated by Maria McLintock
crQlr Award Japan 2023 for excellence in Sustainable Design for the circular economy
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‘crQlr’ is a consortium and award that thinks about the ‘circular design’ necessary for a circular economy.
The Circular Awards welcomes creative and professional homeware designers who are currently creating the future, to honor the design of the New World and seek its realization.
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Selected for the Ireland Glass Biennale 2023
28 April to 20 August 2023.
The Coachhouse Gallery Dublin Castle
The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in association with the Office of Public Works announces the Ireland Glass Biennale 2023; an exhibition of work from some of the world’s most innovative glass artists, designers and craft practitioners.
Through showcasing the excellence of contemporary glass practice, the Irish Glass Biennale (IGB) aspires to further the public’s understanding of the creative potential of glass and to act as a catalyst for cultural activities which centre around glass.
Glass practitioners from Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia are among those selected by the international panel of jurors, each bringing expertise in their respective fields of glass curation, practice and education.
This exhibition is co-funded by the NCAD and Creative Europe as part of a Creative Europe project: Imagining Sustainable Glass Network Europe (ISGNE). This EU funded project includes four partners in the UK, Germany, Latvia and Ireland, and engages with thirty-three associated organisations in nineteen European countries.
Ireland Glass Biennale 2023 will be on show at the Coach House Gallery, Dublin Castle, 28 April–20 August 2023, 10am–5pm daily. Closed for Lunch 1:15-1:45. Free admission.
Selected for the 162nd exhibition of the Society of Women Artists, London
6th June - 10th June 2023
The Society of Women Artists 162st Annual Open Exhibition 2023
Mall Galleries, 17 Carlton House Terrace, St. James's, London SW1Y 5BD
The Society of Women Artists (SWA) is a British art body and registered charity that has had a unique history dedicated to promoting art created by women. It was founded as the Society of Female Artists (SFA) in 1855 by Harriet Grote, offering women artists the opportunity to exhibit and sell their works, which at the time, was extremely difficult due to the limited opportunities open to them. The society changed their name in 1874 to that of the Society of Lady Artists (SLA) and again in 1912 to that of the Society of Women Artists.
The society works with chosen charities to help those in need and this includes a strong collaboration with Breast Cancer Now to whom the SWA donate a percentage of their sales.
Selected for 193rd RHA Annual Exhibition Dublin
22 May - 30 July 2023
The 193rd RHA Annual Exhibition, Ireland’s largest and longest running exhibition of visual arts, taking place in 2023 will also launch the RHA bicentenary celebrations. Open to all artists working in paint, drawing, print, sculpture, photography and architecture, and as the RHA turns 200 years old, the 193rd RHA Annual Exhibition will mark a highly significant point in the history of the organisation.
Selected for the 35th Salonul Sticlei
Bucharest, Romania
April 20th = 12th May 2023
Opening on April 20, 2023, at 6 p.m at gallery Galeria Orizont (b-dul Nicolae Bălcescu 23 the exhibition will feature glass sculpture from Romania and the work of international artists.
RDS Branchardière Lace Bursary Award 2022
Róisín de Buitléar has been awarded the RDS Branchardière Lace Bursary 2022 for researching methods and makings for a large-scale artwork for construction and installation at the National Museum of Country Life in Mayo. The artwork is intended to be made onsite in an exploration of craft techniques that include the wider community, which encourages the contribution of skills and knowledge sharing.
The bursary is named after Eleonore Riego de la Branchardière, whose 72 books on needlework revolutionised the world of lace and had a major influence on fashion in the Victorian era. Eleanore’s mother was Irish, her father was French, and the influence of these two cultures helped her fit easily into Victorian society. She became a needlework star, and her patterns were used by Irish women to create the in-demand fashion for English ladies. Lacemaking proved a reliable source of income for many Irish families during the Great Famine and paid the cost of passage to the United States for many single women.
'I look forward to developing this new and exciting project in collaboration with the National Museum of Ireland. Many thanks to the RDS and the DCCI'
Lace Matrix
Galway 2020
The reimagined Galway 2020 programme has been announced.
Work resumes on Lace Matrix, a new sculpture for Headford Town. Work has been ongoing with the Headford Lace Project and Headford community over the last two years to create a permanent reminder of their almost forgotten lacemaking heritage. As well as celebrating and commemorating the lacemakers this piece of permanent public art will celebrate the vibrant community spirit that pervades this small town and provide a new focal point on the Main Street, St George’s Square – the heart of Headford.
The unveiling of this piece of art will take place in Headford in the coming months.
Space Between Exhibition
Headford Co Galway
Curated By Fiona Harrington
A Galway 2020 Project
The Space Between exhibition will be held in October 2020 following an open call. The exhibition curated by Fiona Harrington, will feature 31 artists using lace in different expressions, an element of handmade lace must be part of the submission.
Work is ongoing at the studio for a new wearable piece in glass called Visor, which has been inspired by Covid 19 period, incorporating handmade lace and glass.
Islanders Selected for Ireland Glass Biennale
October 23rd 2019 Dublin Castle
We are delighted to announce that ISLANDERS - When Darkness Falls
has been selected for the Ireland Glass Biennale, which will be in Dublin Castle
Coach House Gallery
Oct 23rd - January 20th 2019
The NCAD Ireland Glass Biennale seeks to present and provoke international perspectives, explorations and manifestations of glass as creative expression. The Ireland Glass Biennale will highlight the excellence and curiosity of contemporary glass practices by national and international artists, designers and crafts practitioners.
Islanders Selected for Ireland Glass Biennale
October 23rd 2019 Dublin Castle
We are delighted to announce that ISLANDERS - When Darkness Falls
has been selected for the Ireland Glass Biennale, which will be in Dublin Castle
Coach House Gallery
Oct 23rd - January 20th 2019
The NCAD Ireland Glass Biennale seeks to present and provoke international perspectives, explorations and manifestations of glass as creative expression. The Ireland Glass Biennale will highlight the excellence and curiosity of contemporary glass practices by national and international artists, designers and crafts practitioners.
Islanders Selected for Ireland Glass Biennale
October 23rd 2019 Dublin Castle
We are delighted to announce that ISLANDERS - When Darkness Falls
has been selected for the Ireland Glass Biennale, which will be in Dublin Castle
Coach House Gallery
Oct 23rd - January 20th 2019
The NCAD Ireland Glass Biennale seeks to present and provoke international perspectives, explorations and manifestations of glass as creative expression. The Ireland Glass Biennale will highlight the excellence and curiosity of contemporary glass practices by national and international artists, designers and crafts practitioners.
GENERATION
Opens at National Design and Crafts council Gallery
12 MARCH 2020 – 18 October 2020
Hugo Byrne | Mark Campden | Ryan Connolly | Róisin deBuitlear | Mourne Textiles | Cara Murphy | Álla Sinkevich | Katharine West
This exhibition invites us to consider the unique perspective of a group of designer-makers who are custodians of a familial tradition of making and creativity, continuing and/or reinventing the work begun by previous generations of their family.
For these designers and makers tradition is not static, but is in constant movement and so the exhibition traces ways in which their cultural legacy is defined, or sometimes re-defined as they navigate contemporary studio practices and workshops whose origins are rooted in previous generations.
It explores how generational relationships and personal histories have encouraged an added sense of responsibility, influenced aesthetic considerations and helped shape overall narratives. Based on the notion that making matters, the exhibition reminds us that no matter what form it takes, the importance of making and respect for tradition remains at the heart of these family enterprises.
Curated by Frances McDonald and Muireann Charleton.
Islanders at The Venice Glass week - Bonhams Prize
September 2019
Islanders - When darkness falls, and international light projection mapping project, wins a jury commendation at the Bonhams The Venice Glass Week in augural prize.
“The first Jury commendation is awarded to Róisín de Buitléar for her ambitious mapping project "ISLANDERS - When Darkness Falls". This imaginative initiative has involved over 50 artists from islands around the globe - from Murano to the Maldives, Java to Japan, Norway to New Zealand - each of whom have created original glass artworks that will be united in a cinematic light projection, on Murano on Friday 13th September.
As well as being impressed by the highly collaborative nature of the project, the Jury was particularly struck by its thought-provoking mission, which is to invite discussion around how living on an island can inspire and influence artwork, business and community, driving change, creating identities and building on connections with other island nations.”
Chanter - A New Commission for JP Morgan Bank
Sir John Rogersons Quay Dublin
Chanter
Commissioned for the new offices in dublin - Chanter is the latest acquisition in the JP Morgan Bank Art collection
The latest in a series of blown glass sound objects by Róisín de Buitléar, it is made to investigate ideas of sound and glass, it creates a visual and aural resonance of culture.
Created in a Gold Topaz colour, Chanter was blown in collaboration with a team of glassmakers at the Museum of Glass Tacoma and is a unique object made exclusively for JP Morgan Bank.
It stands 1800mm high and one of the largest contemporary blown glass objects in Ireland, and calls to mind the many Irish Glassmakers who worked in the Dublin Docklands, an area that is fast being redeveloped.
Lace Matrix
Small Town Big Ideas - Galway 2020 Commission
Headford Co Galway
The Headford Lace Project is delighted to announce LACE MATRIX, a collaboration with internationally renowned artist, Róisín de Buitléar and members of the community of Headford to create a permanent artwork for the town that will honour its lacemaking history
What is the Headford lace Project? The Headford Lace Project is a community group that actively works to research, revive and reimagine the town’s lacemaking heritage. It is uncovering amd sharing Headford’s lost lace history using art, music and community led projects. Through imaginative hands on events, shared experiences and inclusivity, it is seeking to develop a cultural identity for Headford rooted in its lacemaking story .
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Lace Matrix
About Lace Matrix - A Headford Lace Project initiative for Small Town Big Ideas – Galway 2020
Public Art Commission - Lace is a captured drawn line on a complex layered matrix. Its structure appears fragile yet is durable. It is made of thousands of repetitive gestures that record skill and history in every loop. Made to be admired and to adorn, it is the ultimate in ornate luxury.
Like lace, a community is also a layered matrix and can be drawn closer by working together in a common goal. Hands on workshops and community engagement will be used to develop design ideas and location for a permanent artwork in the town of Headford.
The art work will take 4 months to complete and will be a permanent outdoor work for Headford Co Galway.
Waterford Regional Hospital Commission
Dunmore Wing
Rian - Imprint
A recent commission has been awarded to Róisín de Buitléar for the new palliative care centre at Waterford Regional hospital. The commission RIAN will be made of glass and steel will be installed in Spring 2019
This sculpture focuses on evoking a peaceful, tranquil atmosphere of reflection and reminiscence, using colour and abstract forms suspended in space.
Inspired by nature, translucent glass colours emitting diffused coloured light, suggest calm movement through tender hues of light suspended in space. Using soft nurturing shapes nestling close to each other, the juxtaposed forms convey intimate moments of closeness; a held hand, a stroked face or a gentle squeeze of human contact.
Caring words, supportive moments and joyful memories recalled, are suggested by accents of blended colour. These points of focus create a gentle energy flow between shapes relating one form to the other. Soft indents echoed in its neighbouring form create visual connections between one shape and the next, suggesting the gentle imprint left by human interaction on the mind and spirit.
National Children's Hospital Dublin
Following a highly competitive open competition, eight artists have now been selected as part of the Children’s Hospital Group Public Art Programme to develop innovative artworks for the public spaces surrounding the new children’s hospital and the two new paediatric outpatients and urgent care centres at Connolly and Tallaght Hospitals. The project will transform how paediatric services are delivered in Ireland.
The successful artists are: Róisín de Buitléar, Jason Bruges Studio, Remco DeFouw, Vera Klute, Rhona Byrne, Ian Wilson, Gareth Kennedy and Martin Healy.
Róisín de Buitléar has been commissioned to create two sculptures. One for the paediatric outpatients and urgent care centre at Connolly and the other at paediatric outpatients and urgent care centre at Tallaght.
Given the scale of the project, the new children’s hospital and the two paediatric outpatients and urgent care centres represent what is the most significant healthcare-based programme of public art currently underway in Ireland.
The Children’s Hospital Group Public Art Programme will be jointly funded by the Per Cent for Art Scheme and Philanthropy.
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Did sea define land or land the sea? ' featured above was selected by Curator Matteo Seguso to represent Ireland in an inaugural international engraving exhibition in Spazio Matteo Seguso on Murano Island Venice Italy. The exhibition was held in celebration of The Venice Glass Week 2018 . 11 nationalities were represented showing a diverse range of styles and techniques, shown in Murano's newest bijoux gallery space just off the canal at Campiello Pescheria 1, 30141 Murano Venezia
This unprecedented event is an inspiring exhibition of European craftsmanship, an international cultural event to showcase contemporary and traditional engraving.
The quotation is taken from Heaney's poem Lovers on Aran. The piece is blown,
hand cut, carved and diamond point engraved.
Photo Credit: Phillip Lauterbach
L'Arte Internazionale Dell'Incisione Su Vetro Exhibition - Murano Italy
Crafting a more Human Future
Curator Jean Blanchaert selected 3 pieces by Róisín de Buitléar to be shown at Homo Faber Best of Europe exhibition in Venice Italy. The exhibition featured 150 artists working in a wide range of materials and ran until 30th Sept 2018.
This unprecedented event was 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. RTE Nationwide travelled to see the exhibition and talk to the Irish master craftsmen selected.
