PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection 2015 - 2016

PORTFOLIO Critical Selection 2015 – 2016

Design & Crafts Council of Ireland

Angela O’Kelly Cara Murphy Cillian Ó Súilleabháin Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill Edmond Byrne Eoin M Lyons Helen Cody Helen O’Connell Jack Doherty Joe Hogan Joseph Walsh Karl Harron Liam Flynn Michael McCrory Nuala Jamison Pierce Healy Roger Bennett Sara Flynn Simon Doyle Stuart Cairns Úna Burke ZELOUF+BELL

PORTFOLIO Critical Selection 2015 – 2016

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A message from President Michael D. Higgins Preface Introduction PORTFOLIO Wider Programme Angela O’Kelly Jewellery Cara Murphy Metals Cillian Ó Súilleabháin Furniture Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill Metals Edmond Byrne Glass Eoin M Lyons Jewellery Helen Cody Fashion Helen O’Connell Stone Jack Doherty Ceramics Joe Hogan Basketry Joseph Walsh Furniture Side by Side

by Christina Jansen

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Karl Harron Glass 80 Liam Flynn Wood 84 Michael McCrory Metals 88 Nuala Jamison Jewellery 92 Pierce Healy Jewellery 96 Roger Bennett Wood 100 Sara Flynn Ceramics 104 Simon Doyle Furniture 108 Stuart Cairns Metals 112 Úna Burke Leather Work 116 ZELOUF+BELL Furniture 120 Colophon

A Message from President Michael D. Higgins Uachtarán na hÉireann / President of Ireland

In Ireland we are very proud of our reputation for creativity; a reputation which is greatly enhanced by our many talented designers and craftspeople. Their creative and beautiful works, which receive wide acclaim on both the national and international stage, remind us of how much of our culture and heritage is embedded in crafted artefacts such as the Book of Kells and the Tara Brooch.

At its very best, our design and craftwork connect us in profound ways to our roots whilst also reflecting the immediate world inhabited by the designer. They become an exquisite weaving together of individual artistic vision, collective cultural memory and contemporary influence.

All of the work showcased in this volume represent moments of inspiration, revelation and insight. As Patron of Irish Design 2015 I am greatly uplifted by the work of the gifted designers who are featured. It is a reassuring reminder of the wealth of innovative and creative talent which confers great advantage on our country and provides us with exciting new prospects for the future.

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Preface by Karen Hennessy Chief Executive Officer, Design & Crafts Council of Ireland

PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection is a biennial publication of the best of Irish contemporary design and craft in a world-class context. This volume is published by the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland in order to increase awareness and understanding of leading Irish makers and their current work, particularly among Irish and international collectors, galleries, commissioning bodies and museums.

The featured makers have been selected for achieving excellence in craftsmanship, design quality and technical skill by comparative international standards. They were chosen by an independent expert panel: Christina Jansen, Director of The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh; Grant Gibson, editor of CRAFTS magazine, curator and writer and Antoinette Murphy, founder and former Director of the Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin. The panel was joined

by Constance Harris, fashion editor of the Sunday Independent and LIFE magazine for the fashion selection.

PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection is part of the broader PORTFOLIO programme from the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland which actively works to promote all disciplines of contemporary design and craft and currently features over 120 of Ireland’s most renowned makers. For further details of the programme, visit www.dccoi.ie/portfolio In recent years there has been a growing appreciation of the cultural and commercial value of the design and crafts sector in Ireland. The work featured in this book illustrates the significance and quality of Irish contemporary design and craft.

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It is timely that this publication coincides with Irish Design 2015 (ID2015), a year-long programme of events and activities exploring, promoting and celebrating Irish design both in Ireland and internationally. ID2015 aims to showcase the very best of Irish design in order to drive job creation, grow exports and increase competitiveness.

ID2015 is being convened by the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland, in collaboration with partner organisations, on behalf of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Enterprise Ireland. For further information on ID2015, please visit www.irishdesign2015.ie We hope that you enjoy discovering more about the makers, their inspiration and their practice.

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Introduction by Ciara Garvey Development Manager, Collector & Tourism Programmes, Design & Crafts Council of Ireland

Welcome to the 2015 – 2016 edition of PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection. Since our last publication we have amended our name to the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCoI).

This has added a new dimension to the philosophy and reach of the PORTFOLIO programme. Design has always been intrinsic to the creation of quality contemporary craft, though sometimes in an indirect and subtle way.

These days we are seeing more interconnection and crossover in the spheres of craft, art and design than ever before. A frequent example is that of the designer and craftsperson, traditionally seen as two completely different roles. In recent years the term ‘designer maker’ has emerged to describe makers involved – either directly or indirectly – in the creation of contemporary craft products from bespoke to small scale batches to mass production. In fine art markets, we are seeing contemporary craft holding its own: Sara Flynn’s ceramic vessels were top sellers at the 2015 London Art Fair; Joseph Walsh’s international reputation has been increasing in the world of fine art, and in 2014 he was one of the most highlighted exhibitors at The Salon Art + Design Fair in New York. Pushing ‘design’ out to the fore means that these new, modern relationships are appropriately identified.

The bar for selection for this publication is set very high.

Applicants must be judged as world-class in their respective fields by comparative international standards.

Collectively, our selection panel has brought a huge range of curatorial, gallery and collector expertise to the process. Grant Gibson is a UK-based design, craft and architecture writer and curator. He is currently editor of

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CRAFTS magazine, as well as a contributing editor to the Dutch architecture title MARK. He is also the curator of Space Craft: Architecture Meets Making an exhibition which has been touring the UK since 2014. Antoinette Murphy is the founder and former Director of the Peppercanister Gallery in Dublin. For over two decades, the gallery has been a prominent dealer of Irish and international contemporary painting, sculpture, ceramics and jewellery. Christina Jansen has been Director of The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh since 2004. The gallery is one of the oldest privately owned galleries in the UK. As well as being a fine art gallery, it is also home to the best of contemporary objects specialising in national and international ceramics, glass, jewellery, metalwork and sculpture. The panel was joined by Constance Harris, fashion editor of the Sunday Independent and LIFE magazine for the fashion selection. She has been involved in fashion and styling at the highest levels since the 1980s – her knowledge and contribution were invaluable, particularly as this was the first time we had invited applications from fashion practitioners.

The selection process is rigorous. As with all selections that have taken place since 2005, members of the panel look for excellence in terms of design, craftsmanship, finish, materials and overall aesthetic.

Makers selected for the publication are those who display innovation in their fields and push their own boundaries in a contemporary context. The panel was also simultaneously selecting for the PORTFOLIO wider programme – www.dccoi.ie/portfolio – our web initiative which actively works to grow the reputation and potential of Ireland’s top makers across all major disciplines of contemporary design and craft. 24 makers were added, so it now features over 120 of Ireland’s most renowned practitioners, including all those in the PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection publication. A full list of

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current members of the PORTFOLIO wider programme is included on pages 21/22.

We are delighted to see the emergence of two new categories; stone and fashion. This was the first time in the history of the PORTFOLIO programme that work from each of these disciplines was submitted, and entries from both categories made it straight through to the publication. These new additions give an interesting insight into two completely different types of making, processes and influences. Helen O’Connell laboriously carves and grinds massive blocks of Kilkenny limestone into beautiful origami-type forms. Helen Cody, a wellestablished fashion designer, creates individually crafted bespoke couture pieces using traditional materials such as antique lace with modern techniques such as laser cutting. As technologies, materials and new ways of thinking develop, we expect more categories to emerge in the coming years.

PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection, as a publication and series of exhibitions, exists in order to promote each of the makers as well as the high standard of contemporary design and craft that exists in Ireland. It is a biennial marker of excellence and serves as a platform for showcasing the makers nationally and internationally.

Irish contemporary design and craft at this level is certainly prominent on the world stage. Makers are out there receiving international commissions and recognition. ZELOUF+BELL exhibit in high-profile trade fairs in the USA and France and export their one-off and limited edition furniture worldwide. Cara Murphy was commissioned to design a desk set for 10 Downing Street.

Along with her father, Michael McCrory, she is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in the UK. Úna Burke’s hand-crafted, sculptural, leather accessories have been bought and commissioned by a succession of

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stars and fashionistas including Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Daphne Guinness and Heidi Klum. She has also produced specially designed costume pieces for several characters in The Hunger Games film series.

The reach with our wider PORTFOLIO programme has been extending significantly over the last few years. We work closely with the Department of Foreign Affairs and the National Museum of Ireland running two Joint Purchase Funds. This has meant that contemporary design and craft is showcased in a number of Irish embassies around the world and features strongly in the National Museum of Ireland’s decorative arts collections.

Since 2011, DCCoI has held very successful annual exhibitions in the RHA in Dublin. To coincide with the Irish Design 2015 programme, we have collaborated with Solomon Fine Art and The Doyle Art Collection in presenting a dedicated design and craft gallery. The new gallery space in the Westbury Mall in Dublin city centre features a year-long series of exhibitions from the PORTFOLIO wider programme. As well as giving makers increased opportunities for recognition, representation and promotion, these initiatives give you the visitor – whether collector, curator or of general interest – the chance to see the breadth and quality of contemporary making taking place in Ireland today.

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PORTFOLIO Wider Programme Current Membership The PORTFOLIO wider programme actively works to grow the reputations and potential of makers across all major disciplines of contemporary design and craft. Selected by an international expert panel, the programme currently features over 120 of Ireland’s most renowned designers and craft makers.

Alan Ardiff Jewellery Juliet Ball Ceramics Yvonne Beale Jewellery Muriel Beckett Textiles Scott Benefield Glass Roger Bennett Wood Magda Bethani Ceramics Emma Bourke Glass Lorna Boyle Jewellery Denis Brown Calligraphy Úna Burke Leather Work Mike Byrne Ceramics Edmond Byrne Glass Stuart Cairns Metals Kevin Callaghan Ceramics Sean Campbell Glass Helen Cody Fashion Julie Connellan Jewellery Ryan Connolly Furniture Eimear Conyard Jewellery Seliena Coyle Jewellery Frances Crowe Textiles Danuna Glass Glass Debbie Dawson Glass Róisín de Buitléar Glass Agnes De Vlin Textiles Jack Doherty Ceramics Karen Donnellan Glass Simon Doyle Furniture Dunleavy Bespoke Furniture Isobel Egan Ceramics Deirdre Feeney Glass

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Alison Fitzgerald Basketry Sara Flynn Ceramics Liam Flynn Wood Adam Frew Ceramics Peter Fulop Ceramics Martin Gallagher Furniture Alva Gallagher Glass John Galvin Furniture Séamus Gill Jewellery Mark Hanvey Wood Tricia Harris Furniture Karl Harron Glass Ian Hawthorne Wood Pierce Healy Jewellery Rudolf Heltzel Jewellery Nicola Henley Textiles Jennifer Hickey Ceramics Joe Hogan Basketry John Hogan Metals Shane Holland Furniture Horizon Furniture Furniture Nuala Jamison Jewellery Bob Johnston Basketry Brendan Joseph Textiles Alison Kay Ceramics Catherine Keenan Glass Ceadogán Textiles Knut Klimmek Furniture Peadar Lamb Glass Sonja Landweer Jewellery Bernie Leahy Textiles John Lee Furniture

Locker13 Furniture Alison Lowry Glass Andrew Ludick Ceramics Eoin M Lyons Jewellery Caroline Madden Glass Kathleen McCormick Basketry Michael McCrory Metals Deirdre McCrory Enamelling and Printmaking

John McKeag Ceramics Rachel McKnight Jewellery Deirdre McLoughlin Ceramics Sabrina Meyns Jewellery Claire Molloy Ceramics Michael Moore Ceramics Karen Morgan Ceramics Kathleen Moroney Ceramics Cara Murphy Metals Patricia Murphy Textiles Nest Furniture Liz Nilsson Textiles Cillian Ó Súilleabháin Furniture Stephen O’Briain Furniture Susan O’Byrne Ceramics Eily O’Connell Jewellery Helen O’Connell Stone Nuala O’Donovan Ceramics Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill Metals Laura O’Hagan Ceramics Kate O’Kelly Ceramics Angela O’Kelly Jewellery

Marcus O’Mahony Ceramics Mandy Parslow Ceramics Debbie Paul Jewellery Nicole Portlock Ceramics Owen Quinlan Ceramics Michael Ray Glass Inga Reed Jewellery Louise Rice Glass Rocker Lane Workshop Furniture

Deirdre Rogers Glass Freda Rupp Ceramics Leo Scarff Furniture Killian Schurmann Glass Jennifer Slattery Textiles Andrea Spencer Glass Kathleen Standen Ceramics Paula Stokes Glass Superfolk Furniture Rachel Swan Jewellery Sasha Sykes Furniture Garvan Traynor Jewellery Jim Turner Ceramics Joseph Walsh Furniture Eva Walsh Glass Grainne Watts Ceramics Wedge Furniture Derek Wilson Ceramics Yaffe Mays Furniture Peter Young Glass ZELOUF+BELL Furniture

For further information on the PORTFOLIO wider programme, please visit www.dccoi.ie/portfolio

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PORTFOLIO Critical Selection 2015 – 2016

Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Angela O’Kelly Jewellery

Angela O’Kelly designs and creates large scale jewellery. Her inspiration derives from a fascination with simple shapes, textures, repetition and colour in urban and rural landscapes. She combines an eclectic mix of materials and textures with traditional techniques and new technology. ¶ O’Kelly studied Jewellery and Silversmithing at the Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, graduating with a Degree in 1997 and a Postgraduate Diploma in 1998. She received an MA in Arts Management and Cultural Policy from University College Dublin in 2004. She is currently the Head of Design for Body and Environment at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin and is an established curator of contemporary design and craft.

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← Long Round Sculptural Neckpiece paper, felt, palladium leaf, black pearls, dyed nylon, 44 × 70cm Photographer, Peter Rowen

← Long Neckpiece fabric, felt, paper, platinum leaf, onyx beads, dyed nylon, 50 × 62cm Photographer, Peter Rowen ↙ Long Round Sculptural Neckpiece paper, felt, palladium leaf, black pearls, dyed nylon, 44 × 70cm Photographer, Peter Rowen

Angela O’Kelly www.angelaokelly.com E. angela_o_kelly@hotmail.com T. +353 87 678 0784 Collections Office of Public Works, Ireland.

Ulster Museum, Belfast.

National Museum of Ireland.

Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland.

Georgia State University, USA. Cleveland Arts Centre, UK. Royal Museum of Scotland.

American Museum of Art and Design, New York.

Crafts Council, UK. Dumfries and Galloway Council, Scotland.

Irish Embassy Berlin, Germany.

Irish Embassy Shanghai, China.

Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art International Jewellery Collection, UK. Numerous private collections nationally and internationally.

Recent Awards 2013 / 2004 / 2001 Continued Professional Development Award, Design & Crafts Council of Ireland.

Recent/Current Exhibitions Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2014 Hidden Agenda, British Crafts Council touring exhibition, Naughton Gallery, Belfast.

2013 – 2014 Dazzle, Manchester Art Gallery, UK. 2013 Future Beauty?, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny and Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

2012 – 2013 Out of the Marvellous, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny; Solstice Arts Centre, Co. Meath and Mermaid Arts Centre, Co. Wicklow.

2000 – 2013 SOFA, Chicago and New York, USA. 2004 – 2013 COLLECT, V&A Museum and Saatchi Gallery, London, UK. 2012 Turning Leaves, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, UK. 2011 Dubh: Dialogues in Black, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin and American Irish Historical Society, New York, USA. Seoid 11, Pieces of Eight, Melbourne and Studio 20/17, Sydney, Australia.

Electrum Summer Show, London, UK. Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny and Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

2009 – 2011 Paper Show, Flow Gallery, London, UK. 2009 Inner Voice, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK. Electrum, Showcase exhibition, London, UK. 2008 New York Art & Design Fair, USA. International Paper Exhibition, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2007 Paper Exhibition, Lesley Craze, London, UK. Vivid Colours, Electrum Gallery, London, UK. London Art Fair, UK. 2006 100% Proof, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Galerie Beeld and Aambeeld, Enchede, The Netherlands.

1999 – 2006 Origin, London, UK. 2005 100% Proof, touring exhibition, UK and USA. Edinburgh Comes to Clerkenwell, Lesley Craze, London, UK. Loot!, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, UK. Gallery Representation Charon Kransen, New York, USA. Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, USA.

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Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Cara Murphy Metals

Cara Murphy utilises traditional silversmithing techniques to create innovative and sculptural tableware.

Focusing on how pieces interact with their setting, she challenges the established knowledge of silverware by creating work which does not have an obvious purpose.

Functionality becomes open to interpretation and is created through the users own participation and involvement. In her forms, she aims to create a sense of movement, both physical and visual, whilst still remaining cognisant of the sense of ritual and ceremony linked to the use of silver. Inspired by the natural environment, she sees the table setting as a landscape from which objects emerge and grow. ¶ Murphy trained at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland and the Royal College of Art, London. She is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and works mainly to commission. She is an Associate Lecturer at Belfast School of Art where she leads research in contemporary silversmithing at the University of Ulster.

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← Trap Cup silver and lava, 6 × 6 × 6cm Photographer, David Pauley

← Catkin, serving spoon silver and gold leaf, 5.5 × 3.5 × 30cm.

Photographer, David Pauley. ↙ Trap Cups silver and lava, 6 × 6 × 6cm each Photographer, David Pauley

Cara Murphy Blessington House 18 Ballynahinch Street, Hillsborough Co. Down, BT266AW www.caramurphy.com E. cara@caramurphy.com T. +44 78 1195 8807 Collections Arts Council of Ireland.

Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland.

Shipley Art Gallery, UK. Ulster Museum, Belfast.

National Museum of Ireland.

The Silver Trust Collection at 10 Downing Street, UK. Queens University Collection, Belfast.

Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland.

Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Numerous private collections nationally and internationally.

Recent Awards 2013 Arts Council of Northern Ireland Individual Arts Award.

2012 RDS Award of Excellence and California Gold Medal, National Crafts Competition, Dublin.

First Prize Gold, Silver & Alternative Materials, RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin.

2011 Arts Council of Northern Ireland Individual Arts Award.

2008 Major Individual Artist’s Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

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Recent/Current Exhibitions Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2014 Murphy Family, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

PORTFOLIO, RHA, Dublin.

Feast of Silver, Fortnum and Mason, London, UK. A Spoonful of Silver, Belton House, Lincolnshire, UK. Hammered, Museet pa Koldinghus, Denmark.

Hopeaa ja emalia, Finnish Craft Museum, Finland.

Hopeaa ja emalia, Höyry-galleria, Finland.

2013 Contemporary Silver, A Selling Exhibition, Christies, London, UK. CultureCRAFT, London Street Gallery, Derry and National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

Rocks, Goldsmiths Centre, London, UK. Future Beauty?, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny and Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

2012 Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast.

Fit for Purpose, V&A Museum, London, UK. RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin.

My Place, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, UK. 2011 26 Treasures, Ulster Museum, Belfast.

Arts Council Collection, Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast.

Thirty, Flowerfield Arts Centre, Co. Antrim.

Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny and Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

2010 MATERIALpoetry, American Irish Historical Society, New York, USA. Contemporary British Silversmiths, V&A Museum, London, UK. Objects of Light, Danish Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2009 Designers and Makers, FE McWilliams Gallery, Banbridge.

Side × Side : Edge > Edge, Häme Castle, Finland.

Object, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK. A Pinch of Salt, Goldsmiths Hall, London, UK.

Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Cillian Ó Súilleabháin Furniture

Cillian Ó Súilleabháin’s practice is concerned with man’s relationship with his environment, his search to understand the world around him and how he comes to stamp his presence on it. Influenced by his background as an engineer, Ó Súilleabháin’s making is informed by mathematics, physics and the scientific method; the problem-solving elements of furniture-making appeal to his technical side. ¶ Working in wood, Ó Súilleabháin applies strict geometries and a minimal aesthetic to his chosen organic medium. Through an extensive design process, complex ideas are pared back to a bare essence.

Through this process Ó Súilleabháin explores the tension between the formal mathematics and the organic material. It is this application of stricture, precision and process which is integral to his work. ¶ Ó Súilleabháin graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2000 with a BAI in Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering. Following apprenticeships with David Woods in Dublin and Stephen O’Briain in Carlow, he subsequently set up his own solo practice in Co. Carlow.

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← Transformer oak, 104 × 75 × 38cm Photographer, Rory Moore

← Tetrahedra walnut and ash, 70 × 64 × 40cm Photographer, Rory Moore

Cillian Ó Súilleabháin www.cosfurniture.ie E. info@cosfurniture.ie T. +353 87 951 8651 Commissions National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

Carlow Enterprise Board.

Dublin Chamber of Commerce.

Collections International Wood Culture Society, Taiwan.

Numerous private collections nationally and internationally.

Selected Awards 2012 Design & Crafts Council of Ireland Future Makers Networking Bursary.

2010 Crafts Council of Ireland Future Makers Studio Assistance Bursary.

Selected Exhibitions Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2014 Weathering, UCCA Gallery, Beijing, China and London Design Festival, UK. MADE London, London, UK. Wallpaper* Magazine Apartment, London, UK. FORM Carlow, Carlow.

Young, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin.

Homeland at World Wood Day, Fujian, China.

2013 Woods at Work, Dublin.

Handmade in Britain, Chelsea Town Hall, London, UK. MADE London, London, UK. Future Makers, National College of Art & Design, Dublin.

HOME at Showcase, RDS, Dublin.

2012 Éigse, Carlow Arts Festival.

Festival of Irish Design, Project 51, Dublin.

Showcase, RDS, Dublin.

Gallery Representation SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin.

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Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill Metals

Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill’s work focuses on the exploration of vessel forms through a study of process, materials and colour. He is interested in the intersection between traditional craft processes and new technologies.

Recent projects have explored the use of material science to improve understanding of tacit skills and craft materials, the appropriation of industrial technologies for craft production and the development of new ways of using traditional craft processes and materials in the production of studio work. ¶ Ó Dubhghaill trained at Grennan Mill Craft School, Kilkenny and Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, graduating in 1996. He worked as a designer for industry in India, the Philippines and the UK. In 2005 he received a doctorate from the metalwork department at the National University of Art and Music, Tokyo Geidai, Japan. Ó Dubhghaill was appointed Senior Research Fellow in the Art and Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University in 2007.

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← Ritual 13 copper, hammer work, TIG welding, patination, 25 × 15 × 28cm Photographer, Peter Rowen

← Ritual 8 copper, hammer work, TIG welding, 16.5 × 21 × 17cm Photographer, Peter Rowen ↙ Ritual 13 (detail) copper, hammer work, TIG welding, patination, 25 × 15 × 28cm Photographer, Peter Rowen

Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill Studio 1, Yorkshire Artspace 21 Brown Street Sheffield S12BS, UK www.coilin.com E. coilin@coilin.com T. +44 77 4823 6470 Collections The Goldsmiths’ Company Collection, London, UK. Galeria Sztuki w Legnicy, Poland.

Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland.

National Museum of Ireland.

Incorporation of Goldsmiths, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Glasgow Cathedral, Scotland.

Galerie Marzee Collection.

State Art Collection, Office of Public Works, Ireland.

Toride City Collection, Japan.

Birmingham Assay Office Collection, UK. Recent Awards 2007 – 2010 AHRC Fellowship, UK. 2009 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts, UK. 2008 National Metalwork Design Award (shortlisted), Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, UK. 2007 Sasakawa Foundation grant, Japan.

2006 Special Merit, Golden Fleece Award, Ireland.

1998 – 2005 Monbusho Scholarship, Japan.

Recent/Current Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions 2011 Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill, Galerie Marzee, The Netherlands.

2010 Focus, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK. 2008 Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2006 Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill, Galerie Marzee, The Netherlands.

Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2014 Vase, Vessel, Void, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin.

COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (also 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2006).

2013 Five into Four, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin.

Aesthetics of Manufacture, Butcher Works, Sheffield, UK. Frame@Schmuck, Internationale Handwerks Messe, Munich, Germany.

Future Beauty?, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny and Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

2012 – 2013 Out of the Marvellous, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny; Solstice Arts Centre, Co. Meath and Mermaid Arts Centre, Co. Wicklow.

2012 domesticMATTERS, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK. KunstRAI International Art Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2011 – 2012 Beneath the Skin, Galerie Marzee, The Netherlands. and SIA Gallery, Sheffield, UK. 2011 Silverstruck, Ruthin Craft Centre and National Museum of Wales.

Dubh: Dialogues in Black, American Irish Historical Society, New York, USA and Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin.

2010 Legnica Copper Ore seminar, Galeria Sztuki w Legnicy, Poland.

Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2009 KeyPiece, SIA Gallery, Sheffield, UK. Object, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

2008 9 Create, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Treasures of Today, National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.

Gallery Representation Galerie Marzee, The Netherlands.

Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK.

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Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Edmond Byrne Glass

Edmond Byrne’s sculptural glass work addresses themes associated with the body, and with neurobiology in particular. In his current work, he explores colour, texture and form to make glass vessels which aim to induce an emotional response in the viewer.

He sees vessels as manifestations of emotions and strives to create objects that represent these emotions as closely as possible through clustering processes and careful selection of colour. Production begins with the building of fabric moulds dipped in slip clay to create textured surfaces. The molten glass is then blown in to the mould, picking up its texture and form. Each mould is unique and can only be used once. ¶ Byrne was born in Dublin.

He graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Design in Craft from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and completed a Higher Diploma in Art and Design Education in 2007. In 2008, Byrne went on to study for an MA at the Royal College of Art in London, finishing in 2010. He is currently based in Surrey, UK.

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← Emotion Landscape 3 glass and kaolin, 100 × 40cm Photographer, Ester Sagarra

← Emotion Landscape glass and kaolin, 150 × 50cm Photographer, Ester Sagarra

Edmond Byrne www.edmondbyrne.com E. edmond.byrne@network.rca.ac.uk T. +44 75 0889 1125

Recent/Current Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions 2006 Edmond Byrne, The Crow Gallery, Dublin.

↙ Emotion Landscape 2 glass and kaolin, 80 × 25cm Photographer, Ester Sagarra

Collections National Museum of Ireland.

Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland.

Numerous private collections nationally and internationally.

Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery, London (also 2014).

Modern Masters, Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern, Munich.

Lights on, Flow Gallery, London, UK. 2014 SOFA, Chicago, USA (also 2013 and 2012).

Vetro, London Glassblowing, London.

Opening Show, The New Craftsmen, London.

2013 A Place to Gather, Justus Lipsius Building, Brussels, BL. Pop up Show, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, USA. 2012 London Design Festival, Rupert Cavendish Antiques, London, UK. Engaging With Glass, William Traver Gallery, Tacoma, USA. 2011 Engaging With Glass, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Meath.

Collection of One, DHM Digital Gallery, Oklahoma State University, USA. Making Sense: Craft and the Mind, Flow Gallery, London, UK. RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin.

2010 RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin (also 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006).

Show One, The Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK. Work in Progress Show, Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK. 2009 Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art, London, UK. Miniature Exhibition, Kensington Hotel, London, UK. Organic Geometry, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

Visions in Glass, Glass Attic Gallery, Kilkenny.

2007 Teapots, The Attic Gallery, Kilkenny.

2005 – 2008 Sculpture in Context, National Botanic Garden, Dublin.

2005 Design Week, Habitat, Dublin.

Recent Awards 2011 Dan Klein Memorial Bursary, UCA Overseas Research Fund.

2009 Pilchuck Partner Scholarship.

2008 and 2006 Crafts Council of Ireland Travel and Research Bursary 2006 Crafts Council of Ireland.

Product Development Bursary.

2004 – 2007 Crafts Council of Ireland Network Funding Bursary.

2004 – 2006 Dublin City Council Arts Grant.

Gallery Representation Flow Gallery, London, UK.

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Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Eoin M Lyons Jewellery

Eoin M Lyons makes original jewellery inspired by mechanical objects, science fiction, space and dimensions, the intangible and the unknown. His work seeks to explore the world and our own existence through science fiction and the slightly more obscure theories of science and physics. ¶ He uses iron wire combined with gold and silver to create intricate jewellery pieces. While some pieces may be an exploration in to multi-dimensions and the theory of hyperspace, others are inspired by ideas of quantum theory, chaos theory and self-similarity. He is drawn to the visual potential of these ideas, imagining the movement of extra dimensions as they curl around us unperceived or of the gargantuan beauty that must reside at the centre of a black hole or single entity. ¶ Lyons graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2009 with a Bachelor of Design in Craft Design.

He currently lives and works in Dublin.

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← Hypercube 002 iron wire, 18ct gold wire, sterling silver, 3.4 × 2.5 × 4.3cm Photographer, Peter Rowen

← Chaotic Capacitors iron wire, 18ct gold wire, sterling silver, mild steel, black rubber tubing, 26 × 15 × 4.5cm Photographer, Peter Rowen ↙ Hypercube (1 part of 2 ring set) iron wire, 18ct gold wire, sterling silver, 4.5 × 1.7 × 3.5cm Photographer, Peter Rowen

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Eoin M Lyons www.eoinmlyons.com E. lyonsemf@gmail.com T. +353 87 975 9932 Recent Awards 2013 Design & Crafts Council of Ireland Future Makers Award – studio support.

Recent/Current Exhibitions Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2014 Future Makers, Limerick School of Art & Design. Éagsúil, Selection of Irish Contemporary Jewellers, KusKovu Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

RIAN – A Journey through Irish Jewellery and Accessories, Barbara Stanley Gallery, London, UK. 2013 RDS National Crafts Competition, travelling exhibition.

2011 Design Tree, South William Street, Dublin.

Seoid 11, Pieces of Eight, Melbourne and Studio 20/17, Sydney, Australia.

2010 SIERAAD International Jewellery Art Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Design Tree, Moxie Studios and Gallery, Dublin.

2009 New Designers, Islington Business Centre, London, UK. RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin.

Graduate Exhibition, National College of Art & Design, Dublin.

Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Helen Cody Fashion

Helen Cody specialises in bespoke couture pieces.

Each garment is individually crafted and finished with hand-dyed silk linings, Victorian embellishments, vintage ribbons and crystals. Aspiring to create unique items that appear light and effortless, she incorporates antique Irish and European handmade lace into many of her pieces. ¶ Her current collection utilises techniques such as hand cutting, burning, beading, hand dyeing and machining.

With her Multi Blossom Two-Piece, petal shapes are hand cut, then embellished and beaded and finally attached to the base. With Laser Cut Shift Dress, taffeta is laser cut into disc shapes and applied to a tulle base. It is then hand stitched to create a seamless effect. ¶ Cody graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Design. Prior to setting up her own fashion label in 2000, Cody worked for French Vogue Magazine and Azzedine Alaia and developed her skills as a stylist, working on numerous international publications.

She currently lives and works in Dublin.

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← Multi Blossom Two-Piece silk taffeta, Calais lace, ostrich feathers and Swarovski beads and pearls Photographer, Peter Rowen

← Multi Blossom Two-Piece (detail) silk taffeta, Calais lace, ostrich feathers and Swarovski beads and pearls Photographer, Peter Rowen ↙ Laser Cut Shift Dress (detail) polyester taffeta, tulle, oversized sequins and Japanese silk Photographer, Peter Rowen ↙↙ Laser Cut Shift Dress polyester taffeta, tulle, oversized sequins and Japanese silk Photographer, Peter Rowen

Helen Cody 4 Lullymore Terrace Sally’s Bridge, Dublin 8 (Studio open by appointment only) www.helencody.com T. +353 86 260 5374 Group Exhibition 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

Recent Awards 2015 Kerry Fashion Week Irish Designer of the Year Award in association with IMAGE magazine.

2008 Winner Irish Tatler Designer of the Year.

2007 Only Irish designer to be recognised and auctioned as Fine Art at Whyte’s Important Art Sale, Dublin.

Special Assignment 1997 – 2000 Fashion Advisor to Her Excellency President Mary McAleese.

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Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Helen O’Connell Stone

Helen O’Connell is inspired by Japanese art and design, in particular that of Isamu Noguchi. In her current body of work, she attempts to bring a meditative quality to the material of stone and give the seemingly simple form of the vessel a ceremonial connotation. By striving to depict a lightness in the weighty, unyielding material of stone, she draws out the magnificence of the Kilkenny limestone. ¶ O’Connell graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature & Art History. She subsequently moved to Co. Leitrim where she trained under Séamus Dunbar, Jackie McKenna and Martha Quinn at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre in Manorhamilton. She spent several years working from her cottage studio and teaching at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre. Studies in the art of marble carving were undertaken in the Nicoli studios in Cararra, Italy. ¶ In addition to her own current professional practice, she teaches stone sculpture at the Trinity College Arts Workshop. She currently works from studios in Dublin and her home in Co. Wicklow.

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← Anenome Kilkenny limestone, 40 × 40 × 30cm Photographer, Rory Moore

← Anenome (detail) Kilkenny limestone, 40 × 40 × 30cm Photographer, Rory Moore ←← Anenome Kilkenny limestone, 40 × 40 × 30cm Photographer, Rory Moore ↙ Origami Vessel Kilkenny limestone, 50 × 50 × 25cm Photographer, Rory Moore ↙↙ Origami Vessel (detail) Kilkenny limestone, 50 × 50 × 25cm Photographer, Rory Moore

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Helen O’Connell 6 Sidmonton Square Bray, Co Wicklow www.oconnellsculpture.com E. oconnellsculpture@gmail.com T. +353 86 330 7364

Recent/Current Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions 2013 Carraige na Farraige, Signal Arts Centre, Wicklow.

2007 the stone the circle the rhythm, Talbot Gallery, Dublin.

Collections Numerous private collections nationally and internationally.

Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2014 FORM, Ballymaloe House, Cork.

2013 Woods at Work, Centre for Creative Practices, Dublin.

Open Submission, Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow.

FORM, Mount Juliet, Kilkenny.

2011 RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin.

Contemporary Sculpture in Irish Gardens, Ballintubbert Gardens, Kildare.

2010 Trinity Arts Workshop 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Trinity College Dublin.

RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin.

2009 Landed, Back Loft, La Cathedral, Dublin.

2006 RANT, Turkish Baths, Belgrade, Serbia and Millcove Gallery, Cork.

2005 RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin.

Sculpture in Context, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin.

RANT, Falcarragh, Donegal.

Off the wall, Wines on the Green, Dublin.

2004 Monumental, Donkerswort, Netherlands;.Galerie Exelsman, Brussels, Belgium; The Waterfront, Belfast and Gormleys, Dublin and Belfast. Íontas, Sligo, Limerick and Belfast.

Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin.

RANT, Sheehans Hotel, Manorhamilton, Leitrim.

2000 – 2002 Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Leitrim.

Recent Awards 2013 Irish Arts Review featured artist.

2011 Award Winner Stone Category, RDS National Crafts Competition.

HSE Commission, Dublin.

2010 Arts Council of Ireland Bursary.

2006 Leitrim County Council Residency Award for Tyrone Guthrie Centre.

2005 Arts Council of Ireland Project Award for RANT.

Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Jack Doherty Ceramics

Jack Doherty’s work references anonymous pots from prehistory. Since the beginning of civilisation, mankind has created clay vessels for practical application.

As the mechanisms of our society have evolved, we no longer need pots out of necessity and survival. Doherty envisages a community of objects embedded with ancient stories and contemporary narratives. He has steadily refined his technical process using only one clay, one colouring mineral and a single firing. This has given him the opportunity to engage closely and physically with the making, and particularly with the soda firing. These elemental ceramic forms are layered with aesthetic, visceral and spiritual meaning. ¶ Doherty studied ceramics at the Ulster College of Art and Design before working as a potter at Kilkenny Design Workshops. He started his first studio in Co. Armagh, subsequently moving to live and work in Herefordshire, UK. ¶ From 2008 – 2012 he was the first Lead Potter and Creative Director at the refurbished Leach Pottery in St Ives. He now works independently from his studio in Mousehole, Cornwall.

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← Duo Porcelain, tallest 48cm Photographer, Peter Rowen

← Duo Porcelain, tallest 48cm Photographer, Peter Rowen

Jack Doherty www.dohertyporcelain.com E. jack.doherty@virgin.net T. +44 17 3673 1303

↙ Ovoid Porcelain, 20 × 40cm Photographer, Peter Rowen

Collections National Museum of Ireland.

Museum of Liverpool, UK. Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, UK. Princeshof Ceramics Museum, The Netherlands.

The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stroke-on-Trent, UK. Ulster Museum, Belfast.

The Ceramics Museum, Mashiko, Japan.

Castle Museum, Nottingham, UK. Ceramics Museum, Faenza, Italy.

Recent/Current Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions 2014 Harbouring; Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, UK and Brook St Gallery, Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, UK. 2012 A Place in the World, Garden House, Cornwall, UK. New Craftsman, St Ives, Cornwall, UK. 2010 Pure Simplicity, National University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.

2009 Jack Doherty, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2007 Contemporary Ceramics Gallery, London, UK.

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Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

Vessels: The Spirit of Modern British Ceramics, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan.

2014 Into The Field, The Model, Contemporary Arts Centre, Sligo.

Weathering, TENT London and Ullens Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, China.

Centred, Ceramics Ireland, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

Interplay, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin.

Ceramic Art London, International fair for Contemporary Ceramics, Royal College of Art, London, UK. PORTFOLIO, RHA, Dublin.

2013 Moon Jar: Contemporary Translations, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK. Ceramics Now, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, UK. COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (also 2011).

Future Beauty?, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny and Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

2012 The Ethics of Objects, Kinsale Arts Festival, Cork.

Vessels, Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, Kerry.

Irish Craft Portfolio, RHA, Dublin.

Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art, London, UK. Jack Doherty & Tomoo Hamada, Gallery St. Ives, Tokyo, Japan.

2011 Talking in Clay, Courtyard Arts Centre, Hereford, UK. Art Fair Tokyo, Japan. transFORM, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin; Millennium Court Arts Centre, Armagh.

Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

A Place in the World, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, UK. Through Fifty, C.C.C, London, UK. 2010 Tea Ceremony Pots, Mitzukoshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

European Ceramics Context, Denmark.

Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Joe Hogan Basketry

Joe Hogan was initially attracted to basketmaking because he wanted to grow his own willow, the raw material for most of his baskets. His practice allows him the opportunity to live rurally and to be involved in the entire process, from growing the material to making the finished object. His home and landscape have had a profound influence on the style and diversity of his work, encouraging him to explore and develop new designs based on old traditions. ¶ Hogan makes functional baskets and values the repetition and the fluency it develops. He has become increasingly interested in making non-functional or sculptural baskets, many of which involve the use of finds of bog wood from an area of wild isolated bogland near his home. Some of these baskets involve the use of twigs from birch, bog myrtle, catkins, lichens and other wild material. Hogan is prompted by a desire to develop a deeper connection to the natural world and reawaken a sense of wonder. ¶ Hogan works from his studio in Connemara, Co. Galway. He teaches basketmaking skills and has written two books on the craft, Basketmaking in Ireland (2001) and Bare Branches, Blue Black Sky (2011).

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← Drift Wood Pouch willow rods and drift wood, 83 × 70 × 55cm Photographer, Rory Moore

←← Drift Wood Pouch (detail) willow rods and drift wood, 83 × 70 × 55cm Photographer, Rory Moore ← From Earth and Sky, flight path willow rods and bog pine, 26 × 88 × 80cm Photographer, Rory Moore ↙ From Earth and Sky, flight path willow rods and bog pine, 26 × 88 × 80cm Photographer, Rory Moore

Joe Hogan Loch Na Fooey, Finny, Clonbur, Co. Galway www.joehoganbaskets.com E. joe@joehoganbaskets.com T. +353 94 954 8241 Collections Ulster Museum, Belfast.

Department of Foreign.

Affairs, Ireland.

Office of Public Works, Ireland.

Ulster Museum, Belfast.

Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick.

Quinnipiac Famine Museum, USA. Boston College, USA. Vissinggaard Museum, Denmark.

Pinolere Baskets of the World Collection, Canary Islands.

Collection of the Government of India.

Recent Awards 2012 Selected for Living Legend programme, World Crafts Council Summit, Chennai, India.

2008 Award of Excellence, Reserve, RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin.

2007 and 2008 First Prize Basketmaking, RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin.

2007 Don Juan Gonzalez Farina Award, Spain.

2006 First Prize, Pinolere International Basketry Competition.

2006 Crafts Council of Ireland Bursary Award (joint award).

Recent/Current Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions 2014 Woven Wild, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh.

2012 Tradition and Innovation, Dungarvan Arts Centre, Waterford.

2011 Bare Branches, Blue Black Sky; Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford; Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh; Aras Eanna Arts Centre, Galway; Dunamaise Arts Centre, Laois.

2008 Wood meets Willow, Linen Hall Arts Centre, Mayo.

2005 Weaving the Harvest, Grennan Mill, Kilkenny.

Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

Joe Hogan and Akiki Hirai, Oxford Ceramics Gallery, UK. To Capture Silence, The Source Arts Centre Gallery, Thurles, Tipperary.

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2014 Common Ground, Oxford Ceramics Gallery, UK. Taste Contemporary Craft, Gallerie Blondeau, Geneva.

Fibre Biennial, Snyderman Works Gallery, Philadelphia, USA. CultureCRAFT, London Street Gallery, Derry and National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

Materialisation: Mapping the Making, VISUAL Carlow, Link Gallery, Carlow.

Summer Show, Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, Kerry.

Material Subversion, Naughton Gallery, Queens University, Belfast This Beloved Earth, Craft Town Scotland The Barony Centre, North Ayrshire, Scotland.

2012 – 2013 Out of the Marvellous, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny; Solstice Arts Centre, Meath and Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow.

2013 Future Beauty?, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny and Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (also 2010 and 2009).

Nature in Craft, Wayne Arts Centre, Philadelphia, UK. Bare Stems, Dartington Hall, Devon, UK. ICON, Brown Thomas, Dublin.

Making and Drawing, The Harley Gallery ,Nottinghamshire, UK. 2012 Vessels, Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, Kerry.

RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin.

Baskets, old and new masters, Landskrona Museum, Sweden.

Made by Hand, Moulshams Manor, Essex, UK. 35 years Galerie Ra, Galerie Ra, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Object, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Frame Munich, Germany.

Materials and Messages, R Space, The Linen Rooms, Lisburn, Antrim.

2011 Contemporary baskets, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales.

Sculpture in Context, Botanic Gardens, Dublin.

Gorey Market House Showcase Exhibition, Gorey, Wexford.

Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

Cherry Baskets, Johannes Larsen Museum, Kertminde, Denmark.

2010 MATERIALpoetry, American Irish Historical Society, New York, USA. Noon Passama, Gallerie Ra, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Archaic Shelter, Maison & Objet, Paris, France.

Irish Craft Portfolio, Kenny Gallery, Galway; National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny and Stour Gallery, UK. European Baskets, Strule Arts Centre, Tyrone and Draíocht Arts Centre, Dublin.

Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Joseph Walsh Furniture

Joseph Walsh creates innovative, sculptural furniture works. His approach to design and process is influenced by the patterns of growth and evolution found in nature. He states that his practice is informed by the understanding and sympathetic use of material; the intimate relationship between the process of finding forms and creating structures and the continuity and resolve from the concept to the making process. ¶ In his Lilium series, Walsh works with olive ash stripped into thin layers. Beginning with the creation of a bulb form and layering outwards, he follows the curve of the wood creating large, abstract pieces. He explains that in this work he aims to “explore the relationship between the ordered and chaotic; the geometric and the lyrical; the perfect, effortless symmetry of the bulb, the regulated, controlled element and its freed form as it reaches through and beyond.” ¶ Walsh is a self-taught designer maker. His studio and workshop, which employs a team of master makers, design technicians and their assistants, was founded in 1999 and is based in Co. Cork.

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← Lilium I, sculptural table olive ash, 325 × 215 × 74cm Photographer, Andrew Bradley

← Lilium II, sculptural low table olive ash, 187 × 50cm Photographer, Andrew Bradley ↙ Lilium III, freestanding screen olive ash, 155 × 160 × 240cm Photographer, Andrew Bradley

Joseph Walsh Fartha, Riverstick, Co. Cork www.josephwalshstudio.com E. info@josephwalshstudio.com T. +353 21 477 1759 Collections Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA. The Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, North Caroline, USA. National Museum of Ireland.

Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth House, UK. Lord and Lady Harrington Collection, London, UK. Embassy of Japan, Dublin.

Sacred Heart Church, Minane Bridge, Cork.

St Mary’s Church, Innishannon, Cork.

Rafael Vinoly, Uruguay.

John H Bryan Collection, Illinois, USA. Recent/Current Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions 2014 Lilium, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin.

2011 Enignum and Other Stories, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin.

2008 Realisations, American Irish Historical Society, New York, USA.

Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2014 The Salon: Art + Design, New York, USA. Design Show, The New Art Centre, Artist House, Roche Court, UK. Collective 2, Skylight at Moynihan Station, NY, USA. 2013 Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art and Craft, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Museum of Art and Design & Mint Museum Uptown, USA. Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju, South Korea.

Modern Makers, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK. Salone del Mobile, Nilufar Gallery at Palazzo Durini, Milan, Italy.

Design Days Dubai, Nilufar Gallery, Dubai, UAE. 2011 Black & White, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin.

Design Miami / Basel, Nilufar Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.

Pavilion des Art et du Design, Nilufar Gallery, Paris, France.

Salone de Mobile, Milan, Italy COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK. 2010 MATERIALpoetry, American Irish Historical Society, New York, USA. Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

Pavilion of Art & Design, Todd Merrill Studio Contemporary, London, UK. Design Miami, Florida, USA. 2009 Pavilion of Art & Design, London, UK. Grassimesse, Grassimuseum, Leipzig, Germany.

Design Miami / Basel, Messe, Basel, Switzerland.

2008 SOFA Chicago, USA (also 2007 and 2006).

Ecology, Mythology, Technology, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

2007 Contemporary Irish Decorative Objects & Furniture, La Gallerie SEMA, Paris, France.

2006 Collectors Event, The Hunt Museum, Limerick.

2005 Create 2005, Fota House, Cork.

Gallery Representation Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin

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Side by Side by Christina Jansen Director, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

This is a pivotal year for the recently rebranded Design & Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCoI) as it launches in to Irish Design 2015 which aims to celebrate and promote the wealth of talent from the creative industries from the whole island of Ireland through a series of initiatives nationally and internationally. Uniting design disciplines such as craft, architecture and fashion is a statement of intent, a statement of ambition, a recognition that change can come out of collaboration and that creative individuals see no boundaries.

The artist Michael Brennand-Wood had a retrospective exhibition in the Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh in 2012 called Forever Changes. The title still resonates; this is the future, it is forever in a state of flux and nothing stays the same. Change is inevitable but the pace and direction uncertain. We have all experienced radical change in the last few years due to very real economic uncertainty. To survive we have to change, perhaps to innovate, or otherwise to return to a basic proposition. Design and craft have also had to adapt to suit the times. Often, economic uncertainty tests the creative process and the economy of the creative industries. Design, by one pertinent definition, is about problem solving, finding a solution and demonstrating an understanding of how we live today, how we interact and how design can enrich as well as simplify our lives. Uniting design and craft together takes DCCoI into the modern age where utility and beauty are not opposed and by doing so also recognises a shift in culture that has been happening for some time; the boundaries of craft and design have been converging. This is something to celebrate and not to shy away from.

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Change and innovation can sit beautifully together alongside heritage and history, as one informs the other.

Contemporary work cannot exist without the long line of history running behind (even when it seeks to deny it) and in our world of reductive, digital technology, traditional crafts remind us of our roots and that vital human touch.

These historical lines might have an ancient origin; be they local or international, and the global village might impose homogeneity in the design of a mobile phone, but at the same time it allows for an infinity of influences to affect a maker. World culture informs both craft and design and enhances rather than denies the value of localism so that the landscape and natural world of Ireland is as valid a source today as it was in the past, continuing to inform makers and shape their work.

Ireland is being ambitious and internationalist in its vision. There is work in this publication from Irish born and bred, from those who choose to live in Ireland and from those who live outside the country whose work is celebrated and recognised. This celebration of internationalism is very healthy. There are no barriers to success and work, in whatever medium it is. It is appreciated on merit and value, beauty and utility.

I have a huge respect for the Critical Selection publication and part of this respect is entirely self-interest. I benefit from the selection; it acts as a window into another world. There is discovery and food for contemplation on every page – it has been responsible for a number of solo exhibitions that have been held in my gallery. I simply respond to the work.

The selected work is not a definitive guide to what is current in Ireland but it is an indication of quality, dedication, creativity and skill. The creative journey is often driven by obsession but other times, it derives from necessity.

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There seems to be a general renaissance in furniture making in Ireland which I feel is reflected in this publication. There is the extraordinary majesty of Joseph Walsh’s pieces, whose work is recognised internationally for innovation and quality. Then there is the playful confidence of ZELOUF+BELL who create ambitious, daring, high-risk work. Simon Doyle likes honesty in construction, beauty and balance – his work also reveals a subtle, quirky edge. Cillian Ó Súilleabháin’s furniture is simply elegance personified.

Joe Hogan is an ambassador for traditional craft. He overlooks Loch na Fooey on the west coast of Ireland, calls himself a basket maker and divides his work into two simple categories; traditional and artistic. His traditional baskets took years to perfect and only after this hard-won knowledge was harnessed did he make a leap into his artistic work; intuitive, expressive and beautiful. The landscape seems literally woven into his work. His artistic baskets have no direct function. Instead they are poetic, gentle, contemplative works reflecting the maker’s personality.

The landscape informs other work here too, such as the blackened forms of Sara Flynn. She has created her own language of sinuous shapes, contours and exquisitely detailed surfaces. Her reputation grows with each new form and this is reflected in recent permanent collections that have acquired her work. Sara admits that her work is “a labour of love and admitted obsession”.

Jack Doherty is a senior ceramic artist who lives in St Ives, Cornwall. He follows a European tradition of studio ceramics: “The conscious integration of living and working, with the intention of producing objects that combine the properties of art and the utensil, is a stubborn, demanding, vocational path. It has produced both remarkable ceramics and remarkable people; the

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1. Eleanor Flegg, Perspective magazine.

2. Edmond Byrne: Glass of Ages.

Introduction by Professor Simon Olding, Director, Crafts Study Centre, Surrey, UK.

Irish Potter Jack Doherty is among them.”1 Movement underpins Liam Flynn’s iconic turned vessels and the emphasis has always been on the form. His vessels are powerful, architectural and human.

In Roger Bennett’s exquisitely wood turned pieces he “dreams of making a bowl as strong as an eggshell, as heavy as a whisper. Of capturing and fixing the colours which so move me – drake, mallard green, oil on water, midnight in midsummer, frosty night skies.”

Edmond Byrne’s still life series of glass vessels follows an imagined landscape. Nature is “not only something to be contemplated but rather to be looked into, and beyond.”2 His vessels might on first appearance remind us of ancient or Roman glass. The delicate palette is offset with contrasting surfaces which diffuse the colour, making them appear all the more mysterious. We are invited to respond to this work emotionally and we do. We also respond to Karl Harron’s glass vessels or “visual poetry”. “These vessels are both functional and enveloping. They embody the preservation of materials and the containment of things precious to us, symbolising fragments of history, reflecting the everyday, and conversely, the revered. They narrate a story; from where they came and their reason for being”.

Cara Murphy’s silver pieces also speak of the natural world but remain functional. She has an ability to create a sense of movement that is playfully offset with her imaginative use of enamelling or by punctuating works such as her silver beakers with lava or brick. She is a consummate silversmith. Michael McCrory’s deceptively simple, blue enamelled bowls with their finely rendered surfaces may on first appearance remind us of Fabergé but the work is beyond ornamental. Instead, we are invited to use them. Stuart Cairns’ fine sculptural works are reminiscent of real or imagined domestic utensils and therefore they are full of “narrative possibility”.

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Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill is a multi-lingual metalworker.

Some shapes are Asian in origin, other forms seem unfamiliar, but all are connected with ritual and a love of surface, created using a combination of modern and ancient techniques. Helen O’Connell’s monumental stone sculptures borrow ideas from Japan and the natural beauty of Kilkenny limestone is enhanced by various hand carving techniques. She strives to “make an object of beauty that brings attention to the magnificence of the material itself … Time itself can be seen in the stone if we give it our time”.

Helen Cody is a fashion designer based in Dublin who has built a solid reputation over two decades working in fashion, commercials and publications and has lived in Paris, London and New York. Helen specialises in bespoke couture pieces and is inspired by ancient textiles and their “apparent fragility”, which includes using antique Irish and European handmade lace. “I aspire to create unique beautiful pieces that appear light and effortless, while incorporating many craft driven techniques, many of which have been passed to me by my mother”.

The selection of jewellery this year has some wonderful contrasts. The senior artist in the group is Nuala Jamison.

She was one of the first artists to work in plastic. Do not underestimate the power of her jewellery to transform the wearer with either a pair of her classic rod earrings or one of her articulated neckpieces. She understands how to bring out the natural beauty of the wearer as well as make visually exciting work. Angela O’Kelly has a universal understanding of material. Her confident, sensual pieces in greyscale or monochrome are transformative; her work wraps itself around the wearer and is warm to the touch. Úna Burke burst onto the fashion scene after graduating from the London College of Fashion in 2009 with her

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“luxury leather accessories”. She creates architectural, playful, sculptural and ultimately feminine pieces that are dramatic and embrace and enhance the figure. Eoin M Lyons makes jewellery in fine metal and the shapes derive from various mathematical theories. The end result is beautifully made elegant jewellery, which is a delight to touch and wear. It was no surprise to learn that Pierce Healy trained in Stockholm, Dublin and San Francisco. He is a visual artist who could inhabit any number of roles but at the moment he is sitting within the discipline of jewellery. He creates anarchic work, which is intensely dark but also fun. In his statement he suggests that he is trying to heal the soul. “He’s not an artist in a traditional sense. He is viewed as a contemporary shamanic soul restorer, not to be confused with upholstery. He has been nicknamed the Human Swiss Army knife (that must hurt) as he toils in an array of materials and disciplines … In short, Pierce Healy is a public servant who makes visual incongruities, jewellery, stories and songs to try and make sense of the nonsense of the everyday and to say here is value!”.

Ireland has much to celebrate. There is no shortage of contrasting creative talent and I wish Ireland all the very best with design and craft working side by side.

CJ 02.15

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Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Karl Harron Glass

Karl Harron combines lead and sulphur-bearing glasses with fine silver to create elegant kiln-formed vessels.

In sculpting his glass, Harron moves from traditional vessels to exciting expressions of form and material with etched and light-resonating surfaces. He states that “these vessels are both functional and enveloping. They embody the preservation of materials and the containment of things precious to us, symbolising fragments of history, reflecting the everyday, and conversely the revered.” ¶ With an emphasis on design-led, innovative work, Harron’s distinctive style is characterised by the subtle tones and complex mark-making created by exploiting a third element within the body of his pieces; created at the interface between reactive glasses. Through engaging with the material in both its fluid and solid states, he reveals delicate imagery not usually associated with glass. ¶ Harron studied Art and Design at the University of Ulster, Belfast. He has established a number of professional glass studios, authored accredited glass courses and facilitates international master classes as part of his professional practice. He lives and works in Co. Down.

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← Terminal Migration #0514 reactive Bullseye glass, 25.5 × 21cm Photographer, Rory Moore

← Migration Artefact #0513 (detail) reactive Bullseye glass, 24.5 × 14.5cm Photographer, Rory Moore

Karl Harron www.theglasstudioireland.com E. info@theglasstudioireland.com T. +44 79 7936 5829

←← Terminal Migration #0514 (detail) reactive Bullseye glass, 25.5 × 21cm Photographer, Rory Moore

Collections Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

National Museum of Scotland.

National Museum of Ireland.

Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland.

Down County Museum.

Ulster Museum, Belfast.

Broadfield House Glass Museum, Stourbridge, UK. Bullseye Glass Company, Oregon, USA. North Lands Creative Glass, Scotland.

The Lapuan Taidmuseo Museum of Art, Finland.

Numerous private collections nationally and internationally.

↙ Migration Artefact #0513 reactive Bullseye glass, 24.5 × 14.5cm Photographer, Rory Moore

Recent Awards 2011 First Prize Award of Excellence and California Gold Medal, RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin.

2010 Certificate of Merit in Recognition of Excellence in Glass Category, RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin.

2008 First Prize Glass Category and Dublin Art Glass Award, RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin.

Recent/Current Exhibitions Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2014 Synthesis 2, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pennsylvania, USA. Vase, Vessel, Void, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin.

2013 PORTFOLIO, RHA, Dublin.

2012 Engaging with Glass, Traver Gallery, Tacoma, USA. Distant Visions: A Look At Not So Local Glass, Duncan McClellan Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. International Festival of Glass, Hsinchu City Glass Museum, Taiwan, China.

2011 Dubh: Dialogues in Black, American Irish Historical Society, New York, USA and Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin.

COLLECT Saatchi Gallery London, UK. A Passion for Glass, National Museum of Scotland.

The Art of Irish Glass, The Kenny Gallery, Galway.

21st Century Irish Craft, National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.

Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny; Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin and RHA, Dublin.

50th Anniversary ArtAid Exhibition and Auction, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.

2010 Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny; Kenny Gallery, Galway and Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

MATERIALpoetry, American Irish Historical Society, New York, USA. Collecting Contemporary Craft, Ulster Museum, Belfast.

Take Thirty, Broadfield House Glass Museum, Stourbridge, UK. 25th International Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Florida, USA. 2009 The Naughton Gallery at Queens University, Belfast.

The Royal Ulster Academy of Arts Annual Exhibition, Belfast.

Contemporary Glass, Bonhams with Dan Klein Associates, London, UK. 2008 Side by Side, The Hunt Museum, Limerick.

British Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge, UK. 2007 Vessels, The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, USA. Gallery Representation Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburg, USA. Duncan McClellan Glass, Florida, USA.

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Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Liam Flynn Wood

Liam Flynn manipulates the woodturning process so that the line of grain becomes an integral part to the design of each piece. A keen understanding of the complexities of the materials and how they will dry inform his prediction of the resulting line, surface and tone of the object. Working primarily with oak, whether ebonised or bleached to minimise or tone back colour, the emphasis is always on the form. This ethos continues with his work in paler coloured woods such as sycamore, where the focus is on creating symmetry between the grain pattern and the shape of the vessel. ¶ Flynn is selftaught. He comes from a family who have been involved in joinery and woodworking for generations. He is based in Co. Limerick.

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← Ash Footed Vessel ash, 25 × 26cm Photographer, Rory Moore

← Ebonised Oak Inner Rimmed Vessel ebonised oak, 31 × 40cm Photographer, Rory Moore ←← Ash Footed Vessel ash, 25 × 26cm Photographer, Rory Moore ↙ Sycamore Vessel with Black Rim sycamore, 25 × 29cm Photographer, Rory Moore ↙↙ Sycamore Vessel with Black Rim sycamore, 25 × 29cm Photographer, Rory Moore

Liam Flynn Convent Road Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick www.liamflynn.com E. liam@liamflynn.com T. +353 87 610 6989 Collections V&A Museum, London, UK. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK. State Art Collection, Office of Public Works.

National Museum of Ireland.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA Woodturning Centre, Philadelphia, USA. Limerick City Art Gallery.

Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, UK. Design & Crafts Council of Ireland.

Royal Dublin Society.

Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland.

Recent Awards 2005 Crafts Council of Ireland Bursary Award.

First Prize, Turned Wood, RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin.

Recent/Current Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions 2015 Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin.

2012 New Works in Wood, Beaux Arts, Bath, UK. 2011 Retrospective and New, Hunt Museum, Limerick.

2010 New Wood Vessels, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2007 Solo Exhibition, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

Taste Contemporary Craft, Geneva, Switzerland.

2005 – 2015 COLLECT, V&A Museum and Saatchi Gallery, London, UK. 2014 Craft Trend Fair, Myerscough Gallery, Seoul, Korea.

PORTFOLIO, RHA, Dublin.

Vase, Vessel, Void, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin.

CultureCRAFT, London Street Gallery, Derry and National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2013 Ingrained, Patina Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Common Ground, Oxford Ceramics Gallery, Oxford, UK. SOFA, Chicago, USA (also 2012, 2011, 2010, 2007 and 2006).

Five into Four, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin.

Future Beauty?, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny and Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

Design Days, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

2012 SOFA, New York, USA (also 2011).

Design Days Dubai, Nilufar Gallery, United Arab Emirates.

My Place, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, UK. International Turned Wood and Ceramics, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London, UK. 2011 Dubh: Dialogues in Black, American Irish Historical Society, New York, USA and Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin.

2010 MATERIALpoetry, American Irish Historical Society, New York, USA. Turned Wood, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London, UK. Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2009 Wood Willow Paper, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Modern Masters, Munich International Trade Fair, Germany.

In the Window, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, UK. Organic Geometry, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

Gallery Representation Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London, UK. Beaux Arts Bath, Bath, UK. Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, UK. Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Patina Gallery, Santa Fe, USA.

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Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Michael McCrory Metals

Michael McCrory’s designs are founded on a balance of line, form and proportion which harmonise with the detail in the tactile finished pieces. Deep drawing, press forming silver and computer-aided design bring the traditional craft to a new level. His inspiration comes from natural and manmade objects, museums and archaeological sites. Interest in the growth, surfaces and textures of plants has led to the development of forms using the ‘Prickly Pear’, ‘Blister’, and ‘Pimple’ surface decoration. These surfaces with their textured finish, also have an added function in hiding fingerprints, visible on highly polished silver. McCrory has used colour in some of his latest work by collaborating with his wife Deirdre McCrory to enamel his silver pieces. ¶ McCrory lectured in Silversmithing & Jewellery at the University of Ulster from 1967 – 1996 and served as Head of School of Fine and Applied Arts until 1996. He works mainly to commission and is a member of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London.

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← Enamelled Small Blister Box silver and enamel, 6.5 × 6.5 × 4.5cm Enamelling by Deirdre McCrory Photographer, David Pauley

← Pimple Bowl, salt silver and enamel, 8.2 × 8.2 × 4cm Enamelling by Deirdre McCrory Photographer, David Pauley ↙ Prickly Pear Bowl, salt silver and enamel, 8.5 × 8.5 × 4cm Enamelling by Deirdre McCrory Photographer, David Pauley

Michael McCrory 22 Ballynahinch Street Hillsborough, Co. Down BT26 6AW, UK www.michaelmccrory.com E. michael@michaelmccrory.com T. +44 28 9268 3014 T. +44 75 6809 8282 Collections National Museum of Ireland.

Ulster Museum, Belfast.

Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

V&A Museum, London, UK. British-Irish Intergovernmental Council, Northern Ireland.

Lisburn Museum, Co. Antrim.

Recent Awards 2013 Travel Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

2011 Support for the Individual Artist Programme from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (also 2008 and 2005).

Recent/Current Exhibitions Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2014 The McCrory Family, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Hopeaa & Emalia, The Craft Museum of Finland, Jyväskyla, Finland.

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2013 COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK. Hopeaa & Emalia, Hoyry Galleria, Korpilahti, Finland.

Future Beauty?, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny and Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

2012 Irish Craft Portfolio, RHA, Dublin.

2011 ACNI Contemporary Art in Northern Ireland, Parliament Buildings, Belfast.

Irish Craft Portfolio, RHA, Dublin Thirty, Flowerfield Arts Centre, Co. Derry.

Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny and Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

2010 C3 Collecting Contemporary Craft, CraftNI, Ulster Museum, Belfast.

Objects of Light, Danish Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny; Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin; Kenny Gallery, Galway.

2009 Designers & Makers 2009, F.E McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, Co. Down.

White Christmas, Naughton Gallery, QUB, Belfast.

Design Collection 2009, Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland.

Silver with a Pinch of Salt, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London, UK. 2008 Portfolio, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, UK. You’ll Never Walk Alone, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2007 Making Changes: Contemporary Craft in Northern Ireland, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; Millennium Court Arts Centre, Co. Armagh.

Made in Northern Ireland: A Dynamic of Change, The S. Dillon Ripley Centre, Washington DC, USA. 2006 Silver Connections, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, Co. Antrim; Flowerfield Arts Centre, Co. Derry; National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2005 Art of Dining, Ireland Fund of Japan, Tokyo, Japan.

Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Nuala Jamison Jewellery

Nuala Jamison’s sculptural jewellery is inspired by urban city spaces as well as the southern Irish coastline. She combines acrylic with silver or 18 carat gold.

Using sheets or rods of acrylic, she cuts, files or carves it into a primary form. It is then treated with pumice and water over several weeks in order to achieve a soft, matte surface. This echoes the natural weathering action of waves on beach stones. ¶ Jamison has developed a unique way of dyeing and colouring clear material to enhance its reflective qualities. Her current work explores the making of larger scale jewellery using a technique of painting dye on the surface of the acrylic and firing it in a kiln at high temperature. ¶ Jamison studied Jewellery Design at Central St Martins, London, graduating in 1972. She teaches Jewellery at Morley College, London and runs workshops from her studio in Co. Cork.

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← Stripe Rings, set of four acrylic and fine silver, 3.5 × 4.5 × 1cm Photographer, Rory Moore

← Rainbow Neckpiece acrylic and silver, 24 × 0.8cm Photographer, Rory Moore ↙ Stripe Ring acrylic and fine silver, 3.5 × 4.5 × 1cm Photographer, Rory Moore ↙↙ Stripe Ring acrylic and fine silver, 3.5 × 4.5 × 1cm Photographer, Rory Moore

Nuala Jamison Dromataniheen Durrus Nr Bantry, Co. Cork www.nualajamison.com E. nuala.jamison@mac.com T. +353 27 61538 Collections National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

Van Reekumgalerie, Apeldorn, The Netherlands.

West Midlands Arts, UK. Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts, UK. East Midlands Arts, UK. The Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland.

The Contemporary Arts Society, London, UK. The Alice and Louis Koch Ring Collection, Geneva, Switzerland.

The Ulster Museum, Belfast.

The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK. National Museum of Ireland.

Recent/Current Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions 2002 Individual Showcase, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland.

Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2014 Dulwich Open House, UK. 30 Years in the Making, Lesley Craze Gallery, London, UK. 2013 Future Beauty?, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny and Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

Core Revelations, Designworks, Cork.

Cosmima Jewellery Show, London.

2012 COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK. Irish Craft Portfolio, RHA, Dublin.

2011 Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny and Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

2006 – 2010 Origin, London, UK. 2010 Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny; Kenny Gallery, Galway; Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

2009 Cork Craft Fair, Glucksman Gallery, Cork.

2008 Jean Muir: a Fashion Icon, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh.

2007 Craft Fair, Bovey Tracey, Devon, UK. 2006 Loot, Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA. 2005 Showcase, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK.

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Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Pierce Healy Jewellery

Pierce Healy creates jewellery objects comprising techniques such as hand-engraving, rivetting, and enamelling. Using drawing as his starting point, he creates highly textured and illustrated pieces which, while on one level appear playful, also have a dark humour running through them. ¶ Healy states that “he’s not an artist in the traditional sense. He is viewed as a contemporary shamanic soul restorer not to be confused with upholstery. He has been nicknamed the ‘human Swiss army knife’ (that must hurt) as he toils in an array of materials and disciplines … He makes visual incongruities, jewellery, stories and songs to try and make sense of the nonsense of the everyday and to say ‘here is value!’” ¶ Healy has studied Draughtsmanship and Design, Metalsmithing, Jewellery Design, Lapidary and Engraving.

After receiving a BA in Design Metals (Hons) from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2010 he went on to complete an MFA at Ädellab Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden in 2012. He currently works from this studio in Dublin city centre.

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← The King of Nothing wearable necklace, loaded with tactile and highly detailed and textured hand engravings; Balsa wood, rubber, dog toys, brass, fine silver and rope, 12 × 70cm Photographer, Peter Rowen

← The King of Nothing wearable necklace, loaded with tactile and highly detailed and textured hand engravings; Balsa wood, rubber, dog toys, brass, fine silver and rope, 12 × 70cm Photographer, Peter Rowen ↙ The Clown Jewels #2 large wearable brooch, loaded with tactile and highly detailed and textured hand engravings; has an internal mechanism to produce sound; Balsa wood, fine silver, rubber, ink and rivets (stainless steel), 22 × 16cm Photographer, Peter Rowen ↙↙ The King of Nothing wearable necklace, loaded with tactile and highly detailed and textured hand engravings; Balsa wood, rubber, dog toys, brass, fine silver and rope, 12 × 70cm Photographer, Peter Rowen

Pierce Healy Pierce Healy Studio 41 Drury Street, Dublin 2 www.piercehealystudio.com E. piercehealy111@gmail.com T. +353 87 923 3138 Recent Awards 2013 Travel and Training Award, Arts Council of Ireland.

2012 Ädellab Scholarship, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden.

2011 2nd place, C Hafner Jewellery Competition, Pforzheim Germany.

2010 Stipendium Konstfack.

Future Maker Networking Grant, Crafts Council of Ireland.

Recent/Current Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions 2013 Waiting For a Moment of Genius, Solo Show, LOD, Stockholm, Sweden.

Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2014 A Sense of Place, Konstfack, Stockholm.

Rule the World, Friends of Carlotta, Zurich.

La Frontera, IUK Art Gallery, Indiana, USA. 2013 Hirvitalo, Center of Contemporary Art, Tampere, Finland.

Galleria Rossana Orlandi, Milan, Italy.

2012 The Clown Jewels, Solo Show, Velvet Da Vinci, San Francisco, USA. Spring Show, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden.

Corpus Callosum, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden.

2011 OQJC. Vienna, Austria.

Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany.

We don’t make brooches, Belgrade, Serbia and Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden.

2010 Memory Maps, Solo Show, Velvet Da Vinci, San Francisco, USA. RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin.

2009 Graduate Show, National.

College of Art and Design, Dublin.

Understudy, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden.

2007 Hand Jive, Taboo Studio, San Diego, USA. 2006 Holiday Show, Velvet Da Vinci, San Francisco, USA. 2005 Metal Art Guild Show, Museum of California, Oakland, USA. Jewellery from the Garden, Taboo Studio, San Die go, USA. 2002 Summer Show, Taboo Studio, San Diego, USA. Gallery Representation Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, USA. LOD, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Roger Bennett Wood

Roger Bennett specialises in making distinctive thin-walled bowls and vessels which he colours with wood dyes and inlays with precious metals. His preferred wood is sycamore, whose paleness makes it an excellent canvas for colouring. Bennett’s signature shape resembles an inverted cone, with the rim flaring out gracefully from a narrow base. He inlays his forms by filling hundreds of individually drilled holes with dots of silver wire. The patterns range from flowing spiral lines to tight geometric shapes which complement the natural flows and eddies of the wood grain. This interaction fascinates him: between the maker’s creation of order and the more random markings inherent in the material. ¶ A former teacher, Bennett has a degree in English and French from Trinity College, Dublin. In 1995, he completed the Crafts Council of Ireland’s Craft and Design Business Development Course. He is a self-taught woodturner.

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← Sycamore Bowl sycamore, brilliante silver and water-based wood dyes, 6.5 × 14cm Photographer, Rory Moore

← Walnut Bowl walnut, brilliante silver and water-based wood dyes, 6 × 21cm Photographer, Rory Moore

Roger Bennett 7 Kenilworth Park, Dublin 6W www.rogerbennettwoodturner.com E. parkbenn@gmail.com T. +353 149 22224

↙ Walnut Bowl walnut, brilliante silver and water-based wood dyes, 6 × 21cm Photographer, Rory Moore

Collections Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland.

Design & Crafts Council of Ireland.

National Museum of Ireland.

Ulster Museum, Belfast.

Dublin Airport Authority.

Office of Public Works, Ireland.

Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii, USA. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA. Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama, USA. Columbus State University, Georgia, USA. Numerous private collections nationally and internationally.

Recent Awards 2012 RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin; Crafts Council Purchase Award.

2005 First Prize (Woodturning), RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin.

Recent/Current Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions 2011 Roger Bennett: Fine Wood Vessels, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2005 Solo Exhibition, Leitrim Design House, Co. Leitrim.

Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2014 Is it wood? Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales.

Bravura, Blue Egg Gallery, Wexford.

2013 Future Beauty?, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny and Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

2012 My Place, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, UK. Vessels, Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, Co. Kerry.

Craftboston, USA (also 2011, 2010 and 2008).

2011 Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny and Farmleigh.

Gallery, Dublin.

2007 – 2011 Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, USA. 2010 Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny; Kenny Gallery, Galway; Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

2006 – 2010 SOFA, Chicago, USA (also SOFA, New York, USA, 2007).

2009 Contemporary Craft Fair, Bovey Tracey, Devon, UK. 2006 – 2009 Turning Wood into Art 2009, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London, UK. Origin, London, UK. 2008 Gifted, Wexford Arts Centre.

2006 Cabinet de Curiosités, Galerie Embargo, Paris, France.

Celtic Influences, The Stour Gallery, Warwickshire, UK. Gallery Representation Designyard, Dublin.

Designworks, Cork.

Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Stour Gallery, Warwickshire, UK. del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.

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Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Sara Flynn Ceramics

Sara Flynn is fascinated by the theme of the vessel which she interprets in both literal and abstracted ways. Working in porcelain, she creates sculptural decorative vessels. She is concerned with the challenges of throwing and how work is altered at varying stages of the drying process. Coupled with a constant exploration and understanding of form and volume, the main elements feeding the development of her work are process and finish. The element of risk is crucial to her work. Exploring new methods and ideas and creating objects which are aesthetically unsuccessful is fundamental to the progress and development of her practice. ¶ Work is fired in either gas or electric kilns to between 1240 – 1280° centigrade, offering a variety of colours and finishes ranging from complex blacks, warm and vibrant yellows to cool and subtle celadon greens and whites. ¶ Flynn graduated from Crawford College of Art in Design, Cork in 1998 with a Degree in Ceramic Design.

She is based between West Cork and Belfast.

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← Camber Vessel and Esker Vessel porcelain, 23.5cm high and 12.5cm high Photographer, Rory Moore

Sara Flynn www.saraflynnceramic.com E. saraflynn71@gmail.com T. +353 86 214 4355

← Esker Vessel porcelain, 12.5cm high Photographer, Rory Moore

Collections Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK. Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, China.

The Art Institute of Chicago, USA. Office of Public Works, Ireland.

National Museum of Ireland.

Columbus State University, USA. Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork.

Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland.

Recent Awards 2010 Winner, Peter Brennan Pioneering Potter, Ceramics Ireland Award.

2006 and 2007 Crafts Council of Ireland Travel Bursary Award.

2005 Crafts Council of Ireland Research and Development Award.

Recent/Current Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions 2015 Solo Exhibition, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, Northern Ireland.

2014 Solo Exhibition, Erskine Hall & Coe, London, UK. 2012 Solo Exhibition, Erskine Hall & Coe, London, UK. Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

Taste: Contemporary Crafts, Geneva, Switzerland (also 2014).

London Art Fair, UK. Joint Exhibition, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.

2014 Centred, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

Vase, Vessel, Void, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin.

2013 FIVE into FOUR, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin.

Future Beauty?, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny and Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

Liverpool Corked, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, UK. In Situ, The Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham University, UK. 2012 COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (also 2011, 2010 and 2006).

SOFA, New York, USA (also SOFA, Chicago, USA 2008 and 2007).

Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art, London, UK. In Situ, The Civic, Barnsley, Yorkshire, UK. My Place, The Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, UK. 2011 Duet, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, UK. Dubh: Dialogues in Black, American Irish Historical Society, New York, USA and Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin. transFORM, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny and Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

Ceramics Ireland Annual Exhibition, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. fineEarth, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork.

Newcomers, OnLine Gallery, Hampshire, UK. Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art, London, UK (also 2010).

2010 Present – Contemporary Craft, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London, UK. Design Miami/Basel, Miami, USA Black, Leach Pottery Museum, St Ives, UK. MATERIALpoetry, American Irish Historical Society, New York, USA. Summer Exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, UK. Positive Space, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork.

Womens’ Work, Gallerytop, Derbyshire, UK. Irish Craft Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny; Kenny Gallery, Galway; Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

Art of Clay, Zozimus Gallery, Dublin.

Thrown – Ceramics selected by Sara Flynn, Lavit Gallery, Cork.

Sculptural Ceramics, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Black and Gold, Platform Gallery, Lancashire, UK. Gallery Representation Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK.

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Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Simon Doyle Furniture

Simon Doyle is a furniture designer and maker interested in the exploration of form, structure, void, symmetry, asymmetry, balance and simplicity. He cites the Shakers as an early influence on his work. ¶ Doyle approaches each piece of furniture in the context of craft and industry – where the two intersect and where they are at their most distant, whether that is through visible joinery and the traditional techniques of craft or through metalwork and the contemporary manufacturing techniques of modern industry. ¶ Chair was designed to be an object that could only be made by hand. It is an investigation into pure craft areas and as such focuses on visible joinery and traditional techniques, with very deliberate elements intersecting and interacting. The seat and backrest are coopered, with heights and depths of the vertical pieces offset; an idea of something chaotic within the rigid conformity and strictness of woodworking joinery. ¶ Doyle graduated from GMIT Letterfrack with a BSc in Furniture Design and Manufacture in 2013 and has worked for Stevan Hartung Furniture. Based in Dublin, he works mainly to commission. He is also developing products aimed at larger scale production.

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← Chair walnut (Irish and French), 75 × 42 × 50cm Photographer, Rory Moore

← Hall Table Spanish chestnut (Irish grown) 102 × 102 × 32cm Photographer, Rory Moore ←← Hall Table Spanish chestnut (Irish grown) 102 × 102 × 32cm Photographer, Rory Moore ↙ Hall Table (detail) Spanish chestnut (Irish grown) 102 × 102 × 32cm Photographer, Rory Moore

Simon Doyle Unit 1, Block V Ballymount Industrial Estate Dublin 12 www.simon-doyle.com E. mail@simon-doyle.com T. +353 87 752 4535 Recent Awards 2014 MAKE IT: Readers’ Choice Award, Design & Crafts Council of Ireland, House and Home Magazine, Fund it.

2013 Future Makers Residencies and Training Award, Design & Crafts Council of Ireland.

Recent/Current Exhibitions Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2014 Future Makers, Limerick School of Art and Design.

2013 Imagined, Designed and Made in Ireland, Arnotts, Dublin.

2012 GMIT Letterfrack, 25 Years of Excellence and Innovation, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.

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Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Stuart Cairns Metals

Stuart Cairns combines natural materials and found objects with precious metals such as silver and gold, to create new artifacts in tableware and jewellery. ¶ Cairns’ practice is driven by an exploration of the substance of everyday objects, particularly those associated with the habitual experiences of the dining table. Working with a variety of unexpected materials, he re-imagines tool and utensil forms in order to investigate their narrative possibilities. In this way, Cairns seeks to divert the viewer’s sense of the familiar into alternative associations. ¶ Cairns graduated from the University of Ulster in 2000 with a BA in Fine and Applied Arts, specialising in silversmithing and jewellery. He returned to the University in 2004, completing an MA in Applied Art in 2006. Cairns is currently based in Co. Down.

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← From the Recollections Series silver, found objects and linen thread, each between 15 – 25cm long Photographer, Rory Moore

← From the Recollections Series silver, found objects and linen thread, each between 15 – 25cm long Photographer, Rory Moore

Stuart Cairns www.stuartcairns.com E. info@stuartcairns.com T. +44 77 7911 7291 Collections Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

University of Ulster.

Ulster Museum, Belfast.

Numerous private collections nationally and internationally.

Recent Awards 2014 The Rosemary James Memorial Award for Craft.

2012 Arts Council of Northern Ireland General Arts Award.

2006 Prize for New Work in Silver, Association of British Designer Silversmiths.

2005 – 2006 Dean’s Prize, Faculty of Arts, University of Ulster.

2004 Arts Council of Northern Ireland General Arts Award.

Recent/Current Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions 2007 Stuart Cairns – Solo Exhibition, An Tuireann, Portree, Isle of Skye.

Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2014 Danske Sølvsmede with British Guests, Koldinghus, Denmark.

CultureCRAFT, London Street Gallery, Derry and National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

2013 Setting the Scene, Crafts Study Centre, Surrey, UK. 2012 New Silver, Galerie RA, Amsterdam.

Utensil, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

COLLECT, The Saatchi Gallery, London.

Fit For Purpose, V&A Museum, London, UK. 2011 Linen Diaspora 4th Biennale Internationale du Lin de Portneuf at Chevrotère Mill, Quebec.

2009 Side X Side – Edge to Edge, Hämeenlinna, Finland.

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Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Úna Burke Leather Work

Úna Burke creates wearable leather objects that are visually captivating and technically challenging.

Her pieces resist categorisation by conventional standards, not defined as specific garments but as body accessories to be interpreted freely by the individual wearer. Her work includes sculptural belts, corsets, jewellery, handbags and abstract body pieces. ¶ Some of Burke’s key inspirations include psychological theory and military sources.

She uses vegetable-tanned bovine leather and brass fittings, bringing together traditional leatherworking techniques and contemporary aesthetics. Through the production of evocative and conceptual pieces, Burke aims to promote an appreciation for the cross-disciplinary possibilities of leather craftsmanship. ¶ Burke is originally from Co. Roscommon and is now based in London. She completed a BA in Fashion Design at Limerick School of Art and Design in 2003, and went on to achieve an MA in Fashion Artefact from Cordwainers College at the London College of Fashion in 2007.

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← Heart Bag Italian vegetable tanned leather, solid brass screws and fittings, 20 × 19 × 9cm Photographer, Peter Rowen

← Overlap Lady-Hips Cinch Italian vegetable tanned leather, solid brass screws and fittings (coated with nickel and then gold), 38 × 18 × 15cm Photographer, Peter Rowen ↙ Overlap Lady-Hips Cinch Italian vegetable tanned leather, solid brass screws and fittings (coated with nickel and then gold), 38 × 18 × 15cm Photographer, Peter Rowen

Úna Burke www.unaburke.com E. info@unaburke.com T. +44 78 3065 0382 Commissions Simone Handbag Museum, Seoul, South Korea.

Commission for private art collection of Philip Lim, New York, USA. Daphne Guinness, London, UK. Lady Gaga, Los Angeles, USA. Madonna’s dancers, USA. Recent Awards 2014 Recipient, Centre for Fashion Enterprise Pioneer Program Mentoring Award.

2013 First Prize, RDS National Crafts Competition, Leatherworking Category.

Leathersellers’ Exhibition Grant Shortlisted, Jerwood Makers Open Finalist, Cockpit Arts / Leathersellers’ Award.

2012 Finalist, RDS National Crafts Competition, Leatherworking Category.

Finalist, Crafts Council of Ireland Future Makers Awards.

Finalist, Golden Fleece Award.

2011 Winner, Designer of the Year,Irish Fashion Innovation Awards.

First Prize, RDS National Crafts Competition, Leatherworking Category.

Purchase Award Winner, RDS National Crafts Competition, Crafts Council of Ireland.

Crafts Council of Ireland International Fair Fund.

Finalist, WGSN Global Fashion Awards, Breakthrough Designer Category.

Finalist, Ireland’s Most Influential in Fashion Awards, Designer of the Year.

A Shaded View on Fashion Film 4 – Finalist.

2010 First Prize, RDS National Crafts Competition, Leatherworking Category.

Winner, RDS National Crafts Competition, National Crafts and Design Fair of Ireland Award.

Winner, Crafts Council of Ireland Future Makers Awards, Emerging Maker Award.

Winner, Institute of Designers in Ireland, Fashion Designer of the Year.

Finalist, Golden Fleece Award.

Recent/Current Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions 2011 The Hospital Club, London, UK.

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Group Exhibitions, Fairs and Catwalk Shows 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

Fetishism, TRAPHOLT, Kolding, Denmark.

Vous avez dit bizarre?, Biennale International Design, Saint-Etienne, France.

Fashion & Morality – Fashion, Beauty, and the Traces of Time, Lentos Art Museum, Austria.

2014 Weathering, TENT London, London Design Festival, UK. KFW2014, Kerry Fashion Week Catwalk Show, Killarney.

ARC Fashion Event, Catwalk Show, RDS, Dublin.

Virgin Atlantic 19th International Fashion Lunch 2014, Catwalk show, Dublin.

2013 Prosthetics, SHOWcabinet Exhibition, SHOWstudio Gallery, London, UK. MoBA 13 – Fetishism in Fashion, International Fashion Festival, Arnhem, The Netherlands.

RIAN, Contemporary Irish Fashion, Embassy of Ireland & Canary Wharf, London, UK. The Hospital Club, Collaborative Art and Performance Installation, London, UK. Costume: Future Fashion, Kilkenny Arts Festival.

Locked In/Locked Out, New Living Art Exhibition, Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin.

RIAN, Contemporary Irish Jewellery, Barbara Stanley Gallery, London, UK. IDEATE, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

The Look of Style Awards 2013, Manila, Philippines.

2012 New Fashion Interventions in Material and Technique, LCF. Fashion Space Gallery, London, UK. Simone Handbag Museum, Seoul, South Korea.

Working.Drawing, The Dock, Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim.

Selling Sex, SHOWstudio, London, UK. PomPom Parlour, Stockholm, Sweden.

2011 Common Ground Photography Exhibition, Darc Space, Dublin.

RDS National Crafts Competition, touring exhibition (also 2010).

Couleur Local, Budapest Design week, Hungary.

Irish Fashion Innovation Awards, catwalk show, Galway.

Crafts of Europe, Frankfurt, Germany.

21 Century Icons, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny; Galway City Museum and Dublin Castle.

Future Makers, Crafts Council of Ireland touring exhibition.

Design & Crafts Council of Ireland / PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection ZELOUF+BELL Furniture

ZELOUF+BELL’s work is grounded in practicality and guided by meticulous attention to detail suggesting a dialogue between modern art, contemporary design and history. They strive to achieve a distinct new modernism in each piece they create. ¶ Kimono Cabinet is inspired by a client’s love of Rothko paintings and Japanese armory. The cabinet’s interior, plinth and drawer bottoms feature marquetry in a David Hicks fabric pattern, Kyoto Shrine, a reference to the detailed designs in the silk lining of traditional Japanese kimonos. Using traditional joinery and pressure-dyed techniques, the Gimlet Cocktail Cabinet is inlaid with a signature motif in polished aluminum. Double hinges allow the glistening doors to completely fold back to reveal the ivory ripple sycamore interior, sapphire stone work surface and leather-lined drawers with sterling silver jeweller-made pulls. The cabinet sits on a mirror-finish stainless steel base. ¶ ZELOUF+BELL and their team of master craftsmen have been making one-off and limited edition museum-quality furniture to commission since 1992, exporting worldwide. Based in Co. Laois, they also have a showroom in Dublin.

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← Kimono Cabinet orange bolivar, red birch, lacquered walnut and palladium leaf, 110 × 45 × 158cm Photographer, Roland Paschhoff

← Kimono Cabinet orange bolivar, red birch, lacquered walnut and palladium leaf, 110 × 45 × 158cm Photographer, Roland Paschhoff ↙ Gimlet Cocktail Cabinet sycamore, aluminium inlay, sapphire stone, stainless steel, leather and sterling silver pulls, 78 × 43 × 125.5cm Photographer, Roland Paschhoff

ZELOUF+BELL The Old Chocolate Factory 515 Kilmainham Square Kilmainham, Dublin 8 (Showroom open by appointment only) www.zeloufandbell.com E. studio@zeloufandbell.com T. +353 87 230 5386 T. +353 86 230 5386 Collections National Museum of Ireland.

Guinness Hopstore, Dublin.

Office of Public Works, Ireland.

Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland.

Recent Awards 2005 Create, John Makepeace Furniture Oscar, shortlist.

2004 Laois National Enterprise Award.

RDS National Crafts Competition 2003 Irish Joinery Award for Old Market Room, Irish Stock Exchange, Dublin.

Recent/Current Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions 2013 21st Century Classics, Le Centre Culturel Irandais, Paris, France.

2012 Retrospect, The Motor House Gallery at Farmleigh, Irish State Guesthouse, Phoenix Park, Dublin.

2007 Back to Black, Smoketree Building, Twentynine Palms, California, USA.

Group Exhibitions and Fairs 2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

Maison et Objet, Paris, France.

2014 ICFF, with Bespoke Global, New York, USA. Irish Art in Cambridge, Gonville & Caius College Library, Cambridge, UK. Paris Deign Week, Galerie Joseph, Paris, France.

49th Irish Antiques Dealers Fair, Dublin.

PORTFOLIO, RHA, Dublin 2013 After & Since, Newtownbarry House, Co. Wexford.

48th Irish Antiques Dealers Fair, Dublin.

Waterland, Waterways Ireland Visitors Centre, Dublin.

2013 – 2014 Galerie David Hicks, Paris, France.

2012 21st Century Design Classics, Irish Antique Dealers Fair, Dublin.

Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Philadelphia USA. Reconstructed Rooms, National Museum of Ireland.

COMMEMORATE, SPACEcraft, Belfast.

2011 International Contemporary Furniture Fair, New York, USA. Interiors, RDS, Dublin.

Philadelphia Invitational Furniture Show, Philadelphia, USA. Architectural Digest MADE, New York, USA. 2010 Interiors, RDS, Dublin.

100% Design, London, UK. Architectural Digest Home Design Show, MADE, New York, USA. Philadelphia Invitational Furniture Show, Philadelphia, USA. 2009 Interiors, RDS, Dublin.

2008 Exquisite, Cork.

Interiors, RDS, Dublin.

Celebration of Craftsmanship, Cheltenham, UK. Luxury, K Club, Kildare.

Bespoke, Cheltenham, UK. 2007 Celebration of Craftsmanship, Cheltenham, UK. Bespoke, Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers, London, UK. Exquisite, Dublin.

Bespoke, Cheltenham, UK. 2006 Celebration of Craftsmanship, Cheltenham, UK. Urban Retreat Gallery, Dublin.

2005 Collectors Event, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny; Hunt Museum, Limerick.

Create 2005, Fota House, Cork.

Gallery Representation Bespoke Global, New York.

David Hicks, France.

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About Irish Design 2015 Through a year-long programme of events and activities exploring, promoting and celebrating Irish design both in Ireland and internationally, Irish Design 2015 (ID2015) aims to showcase the very best of Irish design in order to drive job creation, grow exports and increase competitiveness. ID2015 is being convened by the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCoI), in collaboration with partner organisations, on behalf of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Enterprise Ireland. Irish Design 2015 partners include Founding Partners – MCO Projects; Accommodation Partners – The Doyle Collection; Venue Partners – OPW; Exhibition Partners – DAA; and Technology Partners – IBM and Media Partner – The Irish Times.

www.irishdesign2015.ie About Us The Design & Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCoI) is the main champion of the design and craft industry in Ireland, fostering its growth and commercial strength, communicating its unique identity and stimulating quality design, innovation and competitiveness.

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DCCoI currently has over 75 member organisations and over 3,000 registered clients.

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Colophon Editor: Ciara Garvey Editorial Team: Mary Dunne, Ruth Duignan, Susan Brindley, Catherine Phibbs, Ciara Gannon and Brian McGee. Publication Design: Atelier David Smith (www.atelier.ie) Photography: Tim Millen, Peter Rowen, David Pauley, Rory Moore, Ester Sagarra, Andrew Bradley, Rebecca Peters, Roland Paschhoff and Eilis Doherty.

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