IDEATE is a multi-disciplinary minifestival about making; it explores and celebrates craft, design and creativity through experimentation and collaboration and aims to build a community of practice actively engaged with innovation, technology and design. IDEATE has been devised and produced by the Crafts Council of Ireland and the National Craft Gallery to mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Kilkenny Design Workshops, a visionary statesponsored design agency set up in response to the 1961 Design in Ireland report. It is part of the Gathering Kilkenny 2013 programme.
Ideate… Sponsors
European Union
European Regional Development Fund
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) / Europe and Wales Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly / Ireland Wales 2007–2013 Ireland’s EU Structural Funds Programmes 2007–2013
IDEATE has been fortunate to receive sponsorship and support from a number of Kilkenny-based businesses that share our focus on innovation, intelligence and quality. We are sponsored by AIB, who are committed to investing in creativity & innovation and are delighted to sponsor the Ideate Festival. Our accommodation partner is the beautiful Pembroke Hotel on Patrick Street, which has now developed a four-star business centre to match its luxury boutique hotel status – we loved their enthusiasm and lateral thinking in finding bespoke solutions to our event needs; similarly, Lemongrass restaurant on John’s Bridge rose to the challenge with their gorgeous Asian-fusion street food, created with locally-sourced natural produce by their talented Asian chefs – perfectly accompanied by Brewery Corner, Kilkenny’s craft beer pub in Irishtown; with a focus on locally produced, small Irish brewers, they serve only Irish beers and ciders from artisan brewers on draught, with a huge international selection of bottled beer.
Ideate‌ Contents Events at a glance Making Things Making Worlds
4 6 10
Innocrafts strand Digital Fabrication Design Intelligence Workshops Live music and live art
14 16 18 20 24
Creative City Creative City Talks Creative City Exhibitions Creative City on Screen
25 26 29 33
Acknowledgements
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IDEATE Festival 2013 / Contents
IDEATE Events at a Glance Friday 5th July
Exhibitions Making Things Better
National Craft Gallery, Castle Yard
10.00 am – 5.30 pm
free, drop-in
Living With Design
National Craft Gallery, Castle Yard
10.00 am – 5.30 pm
free, drop-in
The Secret of Kells
Studio, Castle Yard
10.00 am – 6.00 pm
free, drop-in
Three Threads
Court Yard Gallery 2, Castle Yard
11.00 am – 6.00 pm
Design in Practice
Pembroke Hotel, Patrick Street
10.00 am – 6.00 pm
The Principles of Design
Rudolf Heltzel, Patrick Street
9.30 am – 5.30 pm
free, drop-in
Pallet to Product
Rothe House, Parliament Street
10.00 am – 6.00 pm
free, drop-in
free, drop-in
free, drop-in
Workshops Solid Works
Pembroke Business Innovation Centre
9.40 am – 12.40 pm
€8, Booking necessary
Social Crochet
Court Yard Gallery 2, Castle Yard
11.00 am – 6.00 pm
free, drop-in
Haptic Modelling
Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle
2.30 pm – 5.00 pm
€8, Booking necessary
Making Things
Parade Tower, Castle Yard
10.00 am – 1.30 pm
€8, Booking necessary*
Making Worlds
City Hall, High Street
2.30 pm – 5.30 pm
Talks
Innocrafts Focus Group
National Craft Gallery
7.30 pm – 9.30 pm
€8, Booking necessary* *only €12 for both Seminars closed
Creative City Chris Heltzel
Rudolf Heltzel, Patrick Street
1.00 pm – 1.30 pm
free, drop-in
Anna O’Sullivan
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle
4.00 pm – 4.30 pm
free, drop-in
Mel O’Rourke
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle
4.40 pm – 5.10 pm
free, drop-in
Daniela Cardillo
Wishingbone Gallery, The Parade
5.20 pm – 5.50 pm
free, drop-in
Eimear Conyard
CCoI Jewellery School, Castle Yard
6.15 pm – 6.45 pm
free, drop-in
Billy Byrne’s Bar, John Street
5.00 pm – 8.00 pm,
free, drop-in
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Film Creative City on Screen Performance
Fennelly’s presents ‘Fox in Town’ Cleere’s Theatre, Parliament Street 5.00 pm – 10.00 pm
free, drop-in
Live Art Draw-Off
free, drop-in
Pembroke Hotel, Patrick Street
9.00 pm – 11.30 pm
Bookings and registration Most events are free and drop-in, however, some events require tickets, see the booking info under each event for more details. Ticketed events must be paid for in advance, and tickets can be collected at the door. The live art Draw-Off is not ticketed, but has an admission fee to be paid at the door – see p 24 for details. Festival bookings e: info@nationalcraftgallery.ie t: +353 (0)56 779 6147 Festival information e: ideate@ccoi.ie
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Events at a Glance
Making Things Better
National Craft Gallery, Castle Yard
10.00 am – 5.30 pm
free, drop-in
Living With Design
National Craft Gallery, Castle Yard
10.00 am – 5.30 pm
free, drop-in
The Secret of Kells
Studio, Castle Yard
10.00 am – 6.00 pm
free, drop-in
Three Threads
Court Yard Gallery 2, Castle Yard
11.00 am – 6.00 pm
free, drop-in
Design in Practice
Pembroke Hotel, Patrick Street
10.00 am – 6.00 pm
free, drop-in
Pallet to Product
Rothe House, Parliament Street
10.00 am – 6.00 pm
free, drop-in
Social Crochet
Court Yard Gallery 2, Castle Yard
11.00 am – 6.00 pm
free, drop-in
Packaging Design
Pembroke Hotel, Patrick Street
10.00 am – 4.00 pm
€15, Booking necessary
Workshops
Brain Gym Studio, Castle Yard 2.00pm – 3.00 pm free, drop-in Talks Digital Fabrication for yer Mam Pembroke Business Innovation Centre 10.30 am – 11.30 am
€5, Booking necessary
The Future in 3D
Pembroke Business Innovation Centre
11.30 am – 1.30 pm
free, drop-in
Design Intelligence
National Craft Gallery
3.00 pm – 4.30 pm
free, drop-in
Mary Butler Court Yard Gallery 2, Castle Yard
11.00 am – 11.30 am
free, drop-in
John Cleere Red Lemonade Studio, Castle Yard
11.40 am – 12.10 pm
free, drop-in
Tomm Moore
Studio, Castle Yard
12.20 pm – 12.50 pm
free, drop-in
Ross Stewart
Studio, Castle Yard
1.00 pm – 1.30 pm
free, drop-in
Milo Fitzgerald
Gorgeous, John Street
3.00 pm – 3.30 pm
free, drop-in
Naoise Nunn
Brewery Corner, Irishtown
5.00 pm – 5.30 pm
free, drop-in
Creative City
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Ken Maguire, Alan Slattery and John Morton Brewery Corner
5.40 pm – 6.10 pm
free, drop-in
Rosie Lynch
Brewery Corner, Irishtown
6.20 pm – 6.50 pm
free, drop-in
Mick Minogue
Brewery Corner, Irishtown
7.00 pm – 7.30 pm
€5, on door
Design & Thinking
Set Theatre, John Street
12.00 am – 1.15 pm
free, drop-in
Irish Folk Furniture
Set Theatre, John Street
1.20 pm – 1.30 pm
free, drop-in
IKEA Butter Churn for Gneeveguilla, Co. Kerry Set Theatre
1.40 pm – 2.15 pm
free, drop-in
Hands – Hurl Making
Set Theatre, John Street
2.20 pm – 2.50 pm
free, drop-in
Handmade Nation
Set Theatre, John Street
3.00 pm – 4.05 pm
free, drop-in
Sounds of System Breakdown Billy Byrne’s Bar, John Street
9.00 pm – Late
free, drop-in
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IDEATE Festival 2013 / Events at a Glance
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Castle Yard (National Craft Gallery, Jewellery School, Red Lemonade, Studio and Courtyard Gallery 2) 2 Kilkenny Castle (Parade Tower, Butler Gallery) 3 Wishingbone Gallery 4 Pembroke Hotel and Business Innovation Centre
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Rudolf Heltzel City Hall Rothe House Cleere’s Brewery Corner Gorgeous Set Theatre Billy Byrne’s
IDEATE Events at a Glance Saturday 6th July
Exhibitions
Friday 5th July Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle 10.00am – 1.30pm €8 (€12 for both Friday seminars) Bookings and registration Book in Advance e: info@nationalcraftgallery.ie / t: +353 (0)56 779 6147
Making Things … Our abilities and processes of object-making have defined human development. In the 21st Century, user-focused design and shifts in technology are transforming the relationships between object, maker and user. Making Things explores those relationships from psychological, technological and creative perspectives.
Thinkhouse Chair, Designgoat, Tubular steel & Birch plywood, 2013
Photography: Sean Breithaupt
Speakers
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Dr. Margaret Wasz is a consultant existential analyst. She holds a PhD in Existential Phenomenological Psychotherapy, an MPhil in Psychoanalytical Studies, an MA in Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapy, a H Dip in Psychology, and Cert in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Her particular area of interest is existentialism and phenomenology and how we can move beyond the ‘given’ to see the ‘real’, and understand our psychological experience in the world. Ben Harris is an Industrial Design graduate of London’s Brunel University and San Francisco’s State University. He spent six years working in the design industry bringing products to the global market and established White Zebra Studios (WZS) in Dublin in 2011. The company’s first project, a relaxing seat for children with special needs, won IDI Awards for Excellence in both furniture and universal design categories. WZS are currently applying their user-centered design approach to develop a wide range of products from iPhone accessories to fitness furniture. Derek Wilson graduated from the University of Ulster in 2007 with an MA in Applied Arts. He has exhibited extensively through out the UK and Ireland and was recently selected and featured in Wallpaper* magazine’s ‘Handmade’ Milan exhibition. His practice as a ceramicist encompasses a diverse range of contemporary objects, from the functional to the sculptural. He aims to push the boundaries of a traditional and diverse art form through playing with its aesthetics, materiality and processes. Derek was commissioned by the National Craft Gallery to respond to the Royal Irish Academy’s (RIA) History of Ireland in 100 Objects for the exhibition Making Things Better. →
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Making Things
Water Pitchers, Derek Wilson, Thrown porcelain, 2012
Rendered images of Comfee Seat, Ben Harris, 2013
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Making Things
Making Things … Friday 5th July Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle 10.00am – 1.30pm €8 (€12 for both Friday seminars)
Designgoat are an industrial design studio based in Dublin. Set up in 2011 by Cian Corcoran and Ahmad Fakhry, they work on a broad range of projects, creating experiences with products, spaces, furniture and food. They work with local start-ups, established companies and international clients as well as doing private commissions and their own bespoke products. Designgoat were commissioned by the National Craft Gallery to respond to the RIA’s History of Ireland in 100 Objects for the exhibition Making Things Better. Dr. Margaret Wasz
Ben Harris
Bryan Leech is a lecturer and researcher in Product Design at designCORE in Institute of Technology Carlow. He has extensive industry experience both in Ireland and overseas having worked in the Denmark, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Barbados, Zimbabwe and Bolivia. He has designed and developed products for small indigenous SMEs and larger multinational companies such as Apple Computers, Lake Landis and Gyre, GEA, Square D, Crown Controls, and Westinghouse. He has a particular interest in additive manufacturing technologies and their potential for assisting industrial, craft and artistic sectors in research, design development and production.
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Programme
Dr. Margaret Wasz: Psychology and The Object; how our psychological blueprint impacts our experience of objects. Derek Wilson
Ben Harris : The importance of universal, user centered design. (supported by INNOCRAFTS) Derek Wilson: From Idea to Production; the translation of ideas into material processes and utilitarian objects. Designgoat (Cian Corcoran and Ahmad Fakhry ) : Work; the processes that led us to here.
Cian Corcoran & Ahmad Fakhry (Designgoat)
Bryan Leech : Olduvai to Objet; how ‘cutting edge’ technologies, from ancient Olduvai stone tools to high-tech Objet 3D printers, have impacted on mankind and the manufacture of objects. Bookings and registration Book in advance e: info@nationalcraftgallery.ie / t: + 353 (0)56 779 6147
Bryan Leech
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Making Things
Friday 5th July City Hall, High Street 2.30 – 5.30pm €8 (€12 for both Friday seminars) Bookings and registration Book in Advance e: info@nationalcraftgallery.ie / t: +353 (0)56 779 6147
Making Worlds … In our interconnected and globalised world, we have a keener awareness of the consequences of actions than ever before. This is creating a paradigm-shift from passive consumption to active participation. Making Worlds explores the active roles that craft, design and creativity can play in building the world around us, looking at civic planning, sustainability, and new and inclusive methodologies. Seasonal Bridge, Commonage workshop led by LiD Architecture, 2012
Photography: Brian Cregan
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Ali Grehan was appointed Dublin City Architect in January 2008. She devised and coordinated PIVOT, Dublin’s bid for World Design Capital 2014, and is currently leading the Parnell Square Cultural Quarter project, a ground-breaking collaboration between the private and public sector. Her career has spanned private practice in Dublin and London, as well as the Public Service. She was a member of the Railway Procurement Agency team that delivered Dublin’s first Light Rail system in the mid nineties and joined Ballymun Regeneration in 1999 where she was appointed Chief Architect in 2006. She was recently re-elected to the Council of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland where she continues to advocate for the value of better design by way of interdisciplinary collaboration. Davie Philips manages the Community Resilience Programme at Cultivate, focusing on developing sustainability and community through events and training. He curates the Global Green area of the Electric Picnic, conceived and directed the ‘Powerdown Show’ a 10 part TV series on how communities can do more for themselves and recently he wrote and directed a short film on resilient communities, ‘Surfing the Waves of Change’. He was a founding member of both FEASTA: the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability and Sustainable Projects Ireland, the company behind the Cloughjordan Ecovillage project, Co. Tipperary. Anthony Kelly graduated from Limerick Institute of Technology in Electronic Engineering and has extensive experience as an electronic engineer in multinational integrated circuit design companies. He has been involved in the Cloughjordan EcoVillage project since 2008, and led on the development of services for the village, including the fibre optic telecommunications network. He is a founding member of the North Tipperary Green Enterprise Park and a member of the Cloughjordan Ecovillage Service Company. He is currently involved in establishing digital manufacturing facilities in the village. → IDEATE Festival 2013 / Making Worlds
Making Worlds … Friday 5th July City Hall, High Street 2.30 – 5.30pm €8 (€12 for both Friday seminars)
Ali Grehan
Davie Philips
Anthony Kelly
Commonage is a community-based organisation in Callan, Co. Kilkenny which seeks to commission and provide a critical platform for contemporary art and architecture practice in the public realm. Commonage recently completed the pilot research phase of ‘Nimble Spaces’, a project in development with Camphill Communities as a long-term process of collaboration between artists, architects and adults with an intellectual disability to imaginatively identify and create a ‘nimble’ solution to specific housing needs. Other recent projects include ‘Landing Place’, a partnership with Dublin City Heritage Office relating to public access and engagement with the Pigeon House Precinct in Dublin Bay.
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Malcolm Noonan is an elected member of Kilkenny Borough and County Council. As Mayor of the City in 2009 he advanced Kilkenny’s participation in LINKS, a partnership project with nine municipalities across the EU. LINKS sought to establish a collaborative dialogue between citizen and planners around the consolidation of historic town centres, adopt ecological solutions to the restoration of heritage buildings and initiate a pilot scheme for restoration. His main areas of work as a policymaker are in rural development, biodiversity, urban mobility and social inclusion. Malcolm is Green Party Spokesperson for Environment, Community and Local Government. Denis Malone is a Senior Planner with Kilkenny Borough and County Councils since 2007. He holds particular responsibility for producing the city and county development plans and the public participation processes informing them. He has just completed a series of public consultation initiatives around the preparation of the new plans for 2014 to 2020.
Programme Ali Grehan: Cities that value design in how they think, plan and act are more humane, attractive and competitive Rosie Lynch
Davie Philips: The role of creativity in building dynamic and resilient communities Anthony Kelly : A rural Irish FabLab; accessible digital manufacturing (supported by INNOCRAFTS) Rosie Lynch : Activating the Commons; what constitutes the commons and how does this impact on how we understand and shape our environment?
Malcolm Noonan
Malcolm Noonan and Denis Malone: Collaborative Planning; the Citizen as expert Bookings and registration Book in advance e: info@nationalcraftgallery.ie / t: + 353 (0)56 779 6147
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Making Worlds
Pivot Dublin Book, project director Ali Grehan, 2011
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Making Worlds
Community meal, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, 2012
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Innocrafts… innovating policies for entrepreneurship in the crafts sector Innocrafts is an EU-funded programme bringing together international organisations from the craft, enterprise, rural development and third-level sectors, in order to promote entrepreneurship and business creation in European Regions through knowledge-sharing. The programme is funded by the Interregional Cooperation Programme INTERREG IVC, financed by the European Union’s Regional Development Fund as part of an overall strategy by the European Commission to promote the sustainable development of small businesses in the art/craft sector. The activities officially started on the 1st January 2012 and will last until the end of 2014. INNOCRAFTS aims to strengthen the policy capacity of the involved partners to support entrepreneurship and SMEs, to modernise their economies and improve their global competitive position. Experiences will be drawn from the partners’ most successful initiatives developed by their local and regional development strategies and programmes. The INNOCRAFTS strand in the IDEATE Festival is intended to generate and share indepth knowledge, experience and expertise around the understanding and development of design and digital technology skills in contemporary craft. Stitched Stools, Superfolk, Oak and Ash, 2010
Photography: Clion O’Flaherty
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The INNNOCRAFTS strand comprises the following talks, workshops and activities: Friday
Ben Harris The importance of universal, user centered, design
Anthony Kelly A rural Irish FabLab; accessible digital manufacturing Focus Group a pop-up World Café in the National Craft Gallery interrogating the day’s seminars to create a road map for future development (with street food by Lemongrass plus craft beer by Kilkenny’s Brewery Corner)
Saturday Jordan Ralph Packaging Design; a design ideation, refinement and prototyping workshop Tara Whelan Digital Fabrication for your Mam; demystifying digital making for everybody! Louise Allen, 3D Dave and Stephen O’Briain The Future in 3D; the threats and opportunities of digital fabrication for craft Garrett Pickett, David Smith and Gareth Kennedy Design Intelligence; an insight into three very different successful creative practices
PROJECT PARTNERSHIP Municipality of Florence (Italy) – Lead Partner; National Association of Italian Municipalities Tuscany (Italy); National Institute of Arts and Crafts (France); Public Foundation The Legacy of al-Andalus (Spain); Bistrita Municipality (Romania)Regional Association of Municipalities; Burgas Municipality (Bulgaria); Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona (Spain); Aalto University School of Art and Design (Finland); Riga City Council, Department of Education, Culture and Sports (Latvia); Vilnius Old Town Renewal Agency (Lithuania); Reims City Council (France); Crafts Council of Ireland (Ireland); Budapest Enterprise Agency(Hungary); Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Slovakia)
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Innocrafts
Innocrafts: Digital fabrication for yer mam … demystifying digital making for non-digital natives; Tara Whelan will talk about Workbench Network, a project developing a simple, low-cost route into the world of digital fabrication. Aimed at those unfamiliar with the world of digital fabrication, Tara will discuss how these tools can be accessed and the practical advantages of bringing digital fabrication into craft practice.
Saturday 6th July Pembroke Business Innovation Centre 11 Patrick Street 10.30 – 11.30am €5, Booking necessary
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Tara has a background in industrial design, graduating from NCAD, and has a post-graduate diploma in Interactive Media. She has worked across design, art and interactive media on projects as diverse as concept design for Waterford Crystal, workshop facilitation for Limerick City Gallery of Art and working with community groups in Moyross. As a founder member of The Civic Works, Tara leads on operational delivery, creating research and documentation materials, engaging with end users, prototyping and running co-creative development sessions. She combines a deep understanding of handson design skills with strategic thinking. Tara is currently working on developing and testing Workbench Network. “We are about igniting a passion and confidence in making, so people can directly create a more useful and meaningful world”.
Paperbot, Tara Whelan, 2012
Bookings and registration Book in advance e: info@nationalcraftgallery.ie t: + 353 (0)56 779 6147 IDEATE Festival 2013 / Digital Fabrication
Innocrafts: The Future in 3D … In discussion with furniture maker Stephen O’Briain, 3D Dave and the audience, Louise Allen takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the future, exploring the leading edge of 3D printing and the challenges and opportunities it offers craft in the 21st Century. Saturday 6th July Pembroke Business Innovation Centre 11 Patrick Street 11.30am – 1.30pm Free Event, drop in
Louise Allen holds a BA from the National College of Art & Design and a PG Dip in European Cultural Management from the Foundation Marcel Hichter. She has worked with and for a number of cultural organisations including the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Samhlaíocht, Kerry, Terryglass Arts Festival, plus as Arts Officer for Kilkenny County Council. She is currently on the board of the World Crafts Council – Europe and has previously been a board member of ORACLE, a network of cultural operators across Europe. Louise has worked with the Crafts Council of Ireland for a number of years as Education and Innovation Manager and was appointed Head of Innovation and Development Programmes in 2012.
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3D printed prototype for Fusion ll Chair, Stephen O’Briain, 2013
Stephen O’Briain comes from a family tradition of woodworking that stretches back three generations. He trained as a fine art painter before specialising as a furnituremaker. As well as private commissions for clients in Ireland, Britain and the United States, Stephen has also worked on major corporate and public commissions including furniture for Government Buildings (Dublin) and the Irish Embassy, Tel Aviv. In 2011, he embarked on a research project with designCORE research centre to investigate the potential of digital technology as a tool in his work. 3D Dave is a self-confessed digital junkie and technological whizz-kid who enjoys pushing the technology to its limit. He teaches courses in 3D printing and has produced 3D printing demonstrations for Intel, TOG, TEDx, and Dublin Mini Maker Faire.
Bookings and registration Book in advance e: info@nationalcraftgallery.ie t: + 353 (0)56 779 6147 IDEATE Festival 2013 / Digital Fabrication
Innocrafts: Design Intelligence … Design Intelligence gives an overview of practice by three very different creative individuals. Although operating in different areas, each is linked by the quality of their ability, the expertise they bring to bear in their particular careers, and the degree to which each has followed their particular specialised passion. Their talks offer an insight into successful creative approaches, with an opportunity for questions and answers.
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Garrett Pitcher Founder & CBO Indigo & Cloth, graduated from a scholarship Business degree in Dublin Business School in 2003 and has worked in marketing and brand management roles for the last ten years, initially within the drinks industry before moving into the fashion world and working with brands such as Pepe, Tommy Hilfiger and Lee jeans. In 2007 Garrett founded Indigo & Cloth. Primarily a concept-driven fashion store, the company also consults in branding and marketing strategy. In 2012 Indigo & Cloth incorporated a design agency into the business allowing it to offer multidisciplinary creative services. It has since expanded the team and moved location to the new (and beautifully designed) HQ in Temple Bar, Dublin. →
Friday 5th July National Craft Gallery, Castle Yard 3.00 – 4.30pm Free Event, drop in
Bookings and registration Book in advance e: info@nationalcraftgallery.ie t: + 353 (0)56 779 6147 IDEATE Festival 2013 / Design Intelligence
David Smith, Atelier David Smith, graduated from Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design in 1993. He worked variously as an agency designer, independent editorial designer and art director, before completing graduate studies at L’Atelier National de Recherche Typographique, ENSAD, Paris. He worked freelance in Paris before moving to the Netherlands to work with UNA (Amsterdam) designers, where his work received the Nederlands Huisstijl Prize (2000) and a Premier award for typography from the ISTD. He established his atelier in 2000 and with long-time associate Oran Day, has received numerous national awards for published work. In 2010 David was the first Irish graphic designer inducted into the prestigious Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) – a select professional organisation of “the world’s best practitioners”, where he commenced an Executive role as Education Officer in September 2012. He is the former Chair of the Visual Communications Programme at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire, where he lectures in design and typography. Under his direction the programme was recognised as one of the top 100 European design schools by DOMUS magazine.
Display system by Design Goat for Indigo & Cloth
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Gareth Kennedy, Artist, graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2003 with a BA in Sculpture. He has produced and shown work widely, both nationally and internationally, and in 2009 he co-represented Ireland at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Since 2010, Gareth has been developing an anthropological approach as a method of operating within specific locales to generate contemporary ‘folk fictions’. These works draw on the particular social, cultural and economic histories of a people and a place, in order to craft work that is a meaningful composite of their specific contexts. His outcomes typically include architectural or designed structures or hand-crafted objects, as well as live performative events which bring these physical entities to life within specific public contexts. These works explore the social agency of the handcrafted in the 21st Century, and raise questions about authenticity, tradition and consumption. Recent manifestations of his work include co-organising a Super8 film festival on the Aran Islands, creating an ‘invented tradition’ for a small village in east Kerry as a public art commission and touring his exhibition ‘Folk Fiction’ nationwide. In 2013 he undertakes a number of projects, specifically in Counties Mayo and Kilkenny and in St. Petersberg in Russia.
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Design Intelligence
House Projects, Atelier David Smith
IKEA Churn, Gareth Kennedy
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Workshops with designCore & Innocrafts
Drop-In Social Crochet Since 2011, Kilkenny County Council Arts Office has initiated a series of participatory art projects exploring wool, working with intergenerational communities, groups and individuals in diverse activities from sheepshearing to yarn-bombing. Led by artist Deirdre Harte, this year’s participants would like to invite you to drop in and re-learn the art of crochet in company – suitable for all ages and abilities. Friday 5th & Saturday 6th July 11.00 am – 6.00 pm Courtyard Gallery 2, Castle Yard
Solidworks Workshop This is an introductory workshop to Solidworks for makers and artists who are interested in developing and/or presenting their work in either 2D or 3D format. Solidworks is a featuresbased computer-aided design programme that generates a 3-dimensional solid model of the object. This model can then be used to prepare photo-realistic renderings, technical drawings and file formats for rapid prototyping or additive manufacturing processes. Workshop facilitator; Bryan Leech, designCORE Bryan is a lecturer and researcher in Product Design at designCORE in IT Carlow. He has extensive industry experience both in Ireland and overseas, working with both small indigenous SMEs and large multinational companies. He has a particular interest in additive manufacturing technologies and their potential for assisting industrial, craft and artistic sectors in research, design development and production.
Haptic Modelling Workshop – modelling with digital clay Haptic Modelling is three-dimensional digital modelling that allows touch-sensor feedback to create models much more quickly than would be possible using traditional modelling techniques. This is an introductory workshop to demonstrate how one can create finished pieces from initial pencil sketch to object ready for production using the system. It will include a hands-on opportunity for participants to try it out, and a question and answers session. Workshop facilitator; David De Courcy, designCORE David is a product designer with specific expertise in design innovation and new product development, focusing on rapid manufacturing and prototyping. David’s role in designCORE is collaboration with industry (SME’s) though new product development and research. He is currently involved in development of the industry-facing research capacity of designCORE through existing initiatives and engaging with new opportunities. designCORE is the Centre of Research and Enterprise in Industrial Design and Product Innovation at Institute of Technology, Carlow. designCORE functions as a collegiate group of creative three dimensional designers, creating multiple group dynamics depending on research focus and opportunities. Alongside eight Industrial Designers and one Graphic Designer, designCORE utilises a research assistant, post graduate researchers, industry expertise, cross disciplinary groups and internationally-recognised collaborative partners. At all times designCORE endeavours to offer a supportive creative research environment for clients that wish to engage in applied design research and identify the opportunities that design research offers their company.
Friday 5th July 2.30 pm – 5.00 pm Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle €8 / Limited Spaces – Booking Essential
Friday 5th July 9.40 am – 12.40 pm Pembroke Business Innovation Centre 11 Patrick Street €8 / Limited Spaces – Booking Essential
Bookings and registration Book in advance e: info@nationalcraftgallery.ie t: + 353 (0)56 779 6147 IDEATE Festival 2013 / Workshops with designCore & Innocrafts
Packaging Design A design ideation, refinement and prototyping workshop. This workshop will commence with case studies of unique and brilliant packaging designs and concepts. The participants will then be given a design brief to produce product packaging and led through an accelerated design process, from concept generation and ideation, through mock-up modelling and design refinement and detailing, culminating with each person presenting a final concept and prototype of their packaging design. The objective of the workshop is to give participants an indepth experience of the design process from beginning to end, with the added benefit of enhancing awareness of the efficacy of great packaging.
Bookings and registration Book in advance e: info@nationalcraftgallery.ie t: + 353 (0)56 779 6147
Workshop facilitator; Jordan Ralph Jordan worked as an industrial designer in two major international design studios – AiAiAi and KiBiSi, both based in Copenhagen – as a designer and consultant, translating design ideas into successful products. His previous clients during this time included Apple, Coolhunting, Dazed digital, Louis Poulsen, Holmris, Bang & Olufsen, One Nordic, Hay and Tradition to name a few. He currently works as a freelance design consultant based in Dublin and is a Crafts Council of Ireland Design Mentor.
Saturday 6th July 10.00 am – 4.00 pm Pembroke Hotel, Patrick Street €15 / Limited Spaces – Booking Essential
Brain Gym Just like our muscles, our brains perform better with exercise. Learn some simple techniques to stimulate your creativity and problem-solving abilities. Fun and free! Workshop facilitator; Ann Mulrooney, National Craft Gallery Ann studied fine art in the Crawford College of Art, Cork, and the Royal College of Art, London. She exhibited widely and received numerous awards for her work, including the Cicilitira Prize for Sculpture (RCA, UK, 2002) and the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award for Fine Art (UK, 2003). She worked as a freelance curator in Ireland and the UK before joining the Crafts Council of Ireland in 2008 to run the National Craft Gallery. She has been a lecturer, external assessor and frequent contributor to cultural publications and programmes including The View (RTE television, Irl), Ceramics; Art and Perception (USA) and the Irish Arts Review (Irl).
Saturday 6th July 2.00 – 3.00 pm Studio, Castle Yard Free Event, drop in
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Workshops with designCore & Innocrafts
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Workshops with designCore & Innocrafts
IDEATE Festival Garden Wrap Party … Sounds of System Breakdown followed by The Kilo 1977 Saturday 6th July 9.00 pm Billy Byrne’s Bar, John Street Free Event, drop in
Dublin-based three piece, Sounds Of System Breakdown, have been favourably compared to LCD Soundsystem, Talking Heads, Soulwax and Depeche Mode, with their eponymous debut album being described as “superior electropop” (Jim Carroll, Irish Times) and “a meticulouslyassembled master-class in electro post punk” (Hot Press). 2013 sees the launch of Nomad, their follow-up album, which blurs their sound between dance culture and guitar dynamics, creating an intoxicating and all-encompassing album. Nomad was recorded “on the side of a mountain” on Sheep’s Head in West Cork last April and produced by Rob Kirwan, who has previously produced, mixed or engineered albums for U2, PJ Harvey, Soulwax, The Horrors and Editors. Expect a high-octane fusion of intelligent beats and infectious melodies.
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Live Art Draw-Off … Mick Minogue v Cartoon Saloon Friday 5th July 9.00 pm Pembroke Hotel, Patrick Street €5 / Tickets available on door
Two of Kilkenny’s most talented image generators go head-to-head in a live art drawing battle, armed only with markers and ingenuity. Come and cheer them on, to help judges pick a winner between crafty artists Mick Minogue and Steve McCarthy, or the multi-talented international tag-team of animators and illustrators from Cartoon Saloon.
Mick Minogue “I kind of imagine it to be like the end of Braveheart, only with pens and paint. I will walk in to meet my allies and fellow artists and before I know it I will be laying on my back, covered in ink, screaming “FREEEEDOM!!!” It will be one of the greatest, most inkiest doodle battles in all seven kingdoms.” Paul Young “I see it more as a duet than a duel; we are lovers, not fighters in Cartoon Saloon, and we will certainly approach this wonderful meeting of artistic minds in that spirit of oneness, enlightenment and connection that only Art can so beautifully illuminate in our world…
This event is kindly sponsored by the Pembroke Hotel
But have no doubt, if the upstart Minogue and the turncoat McCarthy want to get it on – oh my, we shall take it to them! WE SHALL BRING IT! WE SHALL BRING IT OOOON!!!”
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Creative City City wide Exhibitions, Events and Film Friday 5th and Saturday 6th July
Creative City … In an act of unprecedented generousity, throughout the festival, creatives based in or from Kilkenny are generously donating their time to share their experience and practice in a free talk series designed to inspire. Chris Heltzel Are old methods relevant to modern design? Chris took over the reins of an almost halfcentury old business from his father, running and further developing Rudolf Heltzel, one of the leading ‘old-school’ contemporary jewellery ateliers. He trained at the Crafts Council of Ireland Jewellery and Goldsmithing Skills and Design Course, subsequently in various goldsmithing and silversmithing establishments on both sides of the Atlantic and in Continental Europe, and finally for many years in the Rudolf Heltzel workshop.
Mel O’Rourke An agency’s perspective Originally from Kilkenny, Mel studied and worked in graphic design in London before moving to Dublin and starting Creative Inc design & brand consultancy in 1996. Under her direction, the agency has won numerous awards both nationally and internationally, including a total of 9 Institute of Creative Advertising and Design Bells, 16 Institute of Designers in Ireland Awards including the Grand Prix in 2009, and a Silver at the Fedrigoni Standard of Excellence in Design awards. Her work is featured in many international design books and publications, most recently in the new Michael Evamy tome, Logotype. In 2009 Mel received the Gold Award at the European Design Awards held in Zurich for her Creative Direction on The LAB Book.
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Friday 5th July, 1.00 pm Rudolf Heltzel, Patrick Street Anna O’Sullivan Trajectories (or ‘what I did this summer’)
Friday 5th July, 4.40 pm Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle
Anna is the Director and Chief Curator of the Butler Gallery, in Kilkenny. Prior to joining there in 2005, She spent over twenty years in New York, first as Performance Curator at the avant-garde arts venue Franklin Furnace and then as Director of the Robert Miller Gallery and Danese Gallery. She has worked with many internationally-renowned artists and estates to realise projects and exhibitions including Eva Hesse and Patti Smith at the Robert Miller Gallery, and Hans Op de Beeck, Louise Bourgeois, Werner Herzog, Tony O’Malley, Jeanne Silverthorne and Eve Sussman at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny. Anna graduated from NCAD, Dublin and the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York. She is Commissioner and Curator of the Pavilion of Ireland at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale de Venezia in 2013.
Daniela Cardillo Enigmatic encounters with the natural world — engaging the realms of fashion and craft
Friday 5th July, 4.00 pm Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle
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Daniela graduated from the National College of Art & Design, Dublin with a BA in 2011. Since then, her work has gained her followers from all across the globe, she has been featured in press such as Stylist Magazine and U, and has been selected for the World Craft Council European Applied Arts Catalogue 2012. Awards to date include: World Craft Council European Young Talent Award 2012, Guild of Jewellery Designers UK Gold Membership Award 2011, and a Crafts Council of Ireland Future Makers Award, 2011.
Friday 5th July, 5.20 pm Wishingbone Gallery, The Parade
Eimear Conyard Material collaboration
Tomm Moore The art of collaboration
Eimear Conyard graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin with a BDes in 1995, and from the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, with a MDes in 1999. She exhibits widely internationally, with recent exhibitions including LOOT, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and Museum of Art and Design Craft Show, Philidelphia, USA, where she received the Best International Exhibitor Award. She currently runs the Crafts Council of Ireland’s Jewellery and Goldsmithing Skills and Design Course and prior to this lectured at the School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University, UK and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada.
Tomm is co-Founder and Creative Director of Cartoon Saloon, founded in 1999 with Paul Young while studying animation at Ballyfermot Senior College, Dublin. Over the company’s history, he has worked as Director, Art Director, Storyboarder, Animator and Illustrator on a range of projects from commercials to service work for feature films and TV series, as well as a number of short film projects. Tomm completed his first feature film The Secret of Kells (Best Animated Feature Nominee: Academy Awards ® 2011) and is currently directing his new feature film The Song of the Sea which is due for release in 2014.
Friday 5th July, 6.15 pm CCoI Jewellery School, Castle Yard Mary Butler How am I going to do that? Mary Butler is currently Arts Officer with Kilkenny County Council and an artist and maker. She has worked in the creative sector for a number of years facilitating, curating and managing a diverse range of projects including visual arts, theatre, music, literature and multi-disciplinary events. She manages to combine her working life with her artistic practice, which fluctuates between printmaking, textiles and site-specific installations using non-traditional materials. Over the years she has tended to work within the realm of the everyday world reacting to people, places and domestic and public environments, involving people in their past and provoking memories. Repetition and obsession feature highly in the execution of all of her ideas.
Saturday 6th July, 11.00 am Courtyard Gallery 2, Castle Yard John Cleere Sticky business; combining the economic and creative worlds It’s no accident that Red Lemonade is based in Castle Yard. As a young boy John suffered from asthma, and the frequent doctor surgery visits were a stone’s throw from the Kilkenny Design Workshops. Not knowing what was going on inside, he related the building’s copper dome to St. Paul’s Cathedral in London which he had seen on the opening credits for Thames TV children’s programmes. From this sticky image grew Red Lemonade, which provides digital and print services to clients ranging from market leaders to small businesses. His client list includes the BT River of Music as part of the London 2012 Olympics, Serious Producers in London, Assembly at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and not forgetting hometown festivals, The Sky Cat Laughs and Kilkenomics – but this is the first time John has appeared in a festival!
Saturday 6th July, 12.20 pm Studio, Castle Yard Ross Stewart The organic and the machine Ross combines a career as a painter, illustrator and Visual Development artist for animation, based in Kilkenny. He studied Classical Animation but has moved towards background design and conceptual art since then, whilst also painting and exhibiting his own personal artwork for over 15 years. He has recently worked on two Oscarnominated feature films, as Art Director on The Secret of Kells and Main Conceptual Artist on ParaNorman. He has exhibited widely nationally and works freelance in illustration, design and visual development for clients internationally.
Mick Minogue
Saturday 6th July, 1.00 pm Studio, Castle Yard Milo Fitzgerald Never underestimate the element of surprise Milo has worked in the design field for nearly 30 years. In the past he co-owned a furniture manufacturing company with its own retail store and design studio, designing a full range of domestic and contract furniture. Presently he is a partner in the retail store Gorgeous, which sources high quality interior products and gift items with a stylish contemporary remit. They strive to seek out products of international design credibility, made from appropriate materials, packaged to entice and at price points that sell. He is currently a Crafts Council of Ireland Design Mentor.
Saturday 6th July, 3.00 pm Gorgeous, John Street
Saturday 6th July, 11.40 am Red Lemonade Studio, Castle Yard IDEATE Festival 2013 / Creative City
Ross Stewart
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Eimear Conyard Jewellery is not Merely Adornment
Naoise Nunn Always be scheming: the risks and rewards of the business of show Naoise is Artistic Director of the Sky Cat Laughs Comedy Festival and Programme Director of the Kilkenomics festival of economics, both based in Kilkenny city. He has also run the Mindfield spoken word arena at the Electric Picnic festival since 2006. He founded the Leviathan political cabaret series of events in 2003 which brought together in conversation and entertainment, people as diverse as Bob Geldof, Naomi Klein, Ronnie Drew, Alastair Campbell, Peter Mandelson, Jon Snow, Dara Ó Briain, Florence Welsh, Miriam O’Callaghan and Dr. Steve Myers (the man who runs the Large Hadron Collider at CERN). In the past he has managed the Aprés Match comedy trio; produced I, Keano, the musical; imported Absinthe; and worked in Leinster House as a parliamentary reporter.
Rosie Lynch Dig where you stand Rosie is a co-founder of Commonage, a communitybased organisation in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, which provides a critical platform for contemporary art and architecture practice in the public realm. From 2005 until 2007 she worked with Ard Bia Gallery in Galway and subsequently devised their pilot year artist-in-residence programme in Berlin. Recent independent curatorial projects include ‘Unbuilding’ (2010), co-curated with Eilís Lavelle and Clíodhna Shaffrey; and ‘Dig where you stand’ (2012,) a year long residency in South Tipperary co-curated with Eilís Lavelle and Sarah Lincoln which investigated spaces of potential between text, exhibition and place. Rosie grew up in Camphill Community Ballytobin, Co. Kilkenny.
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Saturday 6th July, 5.00 pm Brewery Corner, Irishtown
Ken Maguire, Alan Slattery and John Morton Crossing paths: mixing media Fusing the screen, the web and the stage has its challenges but three Kilkenny companies have been doing just that for over five years now. The paths of The Devious Theatre Company, Event Media and Mycrofilms continue to intertwine with Ken McGuire, John Morton and Alan Slattery combining backgrounds in digital design, theatre and film to enhance each others’ creative services. This talk looks at how those paths continue to cross and how working together and sharing resources can open more creative doors and opportunities.
Saturday 6th July, 5.40 pm Brewery Corner, Irishtown
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Saturday 6th July, 6.20 pm Brewery Corner, Irishtown Mick Minogue Nostalgia – the poor man’s inspiration
Mick Minogue is a Kilkenny-born, Dublin-based crafter, maker and creator of all manner of tactile works of art. His work is fueled by a wild imagination, and a highly intuitive sense of nostalgia that makes his work instantly resonate. A natural tinkerer, Mick’s pieces wear their hearts on their sleeves, and the human touch is a vital element in every work he makes. Using wit, humour and a healthy slice of pop culture, Mick creates work that makes you want to collect everything he does. * *note from Mick – I couldn’t write a bio without using the words ‘muscles’, ‘alpha male’ and ‘Thunder Road’ so I had to ask Steve McCarthy to do it for me…
Saturday 6th July, 7pm Brewery Corner, Irishtown
Creative City Exhibitions ‌ Exploring designing, making and thinking, throughout Kilkenny City
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Making Things Better, Designgoat, Cian Corcoran and Ahmad Fakhry
Living with Design, Patrick Scott
Living with Design, Claire-Anne O’Brien
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Creative City Exhibitions … Exploring designing, making and thinking, throughout Kilkenny City
Making Things Better
Pallet to Product
Design is always about making things better – even when the starting point is standing on the shoulders of giants. Designgoat and Derek Wilson each selected an inspirational object from A History of Ireland in 100 Objects as a spur to create. Featuring trials, errors, experiments and prototypes, this exhibition reveals the relationships between object, inspiration and design. (A History of Ireland in 100 Objects is a project of the National Museum of Ireland, The Irish Times and the Royal Irish Academy)
The PALLET to PRODUCT Design Challenge invited designers, makers and dreamers to create an innovative new product from a discarded wooden pallet. Submissions could be to any scale and involve an assortment of manipulations. The outcome of the challenge is an exhibition of selected finalists showcasing great design capabilities and excellent use of craft skills. The exhibition will run over the 2 days of the festival and exhibitors will be in-house on Saturday July 6th to talk about the process of creating innovative objects from unexpected materials.
24th May – 9th July 10.00 am – 5.30 pm daily National Craft Gallery 1, Castle Yard Living With Design This exhibition describes the relationship between designers and the everyday objects that inspire them. Captured in portrait form by photographer Lois Crichton, 19 Irish designers including Patrick Scott, Paul Costelloe and Liz Nilsson, explain their fascinations with objects ranging from a feather duster to a slide rule. The exhibition was curated by Rosemary Ryan of Malthouse Design Centre.
24th May – 9th July 10.00 am – 5.30 pm daily National Craft Gallery 2, Castle Yard
Friday 5th & Saturday 6th July 10.00 am – 6.00 pm daily Rothe House, Parliament Street The Secret of Kells The Secret of Kells is an exhibition of limitededition art prints of iconic scenes from this critically-acclaimed animated feature film by Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon. Directed by Tomm Moore and Art Directed by Ross Stewart, the film launched at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival and went on to win numerous international awards including Audience Awards at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival (both 2009), Best Animation Award at the 7th Irish Film and Television Awards (2010), the European Animated Feature Award at the British Animation Awards (2010) plus a nomination for Best Animated Feature Film at the 82nd Academy Awards.
Friday 5th & Saturday 6th July 10.00 am – 6.00 pm daily Studio, Castle Yard
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Creative City Exhibitions …
The Principles of Design Original drawings by Rudolf Heltzel Rudolf Heltzel set up and initially ran the Metal and Silversmithing Department at the Kilkenny Design Workshops. In 1968 he decided to make Ireland his permanent home and established the bespoke jewellery company Rudolf Heltzel in Kilkenny. He has relentlessly continued to explore and push the boundaries of hand-made modern jewellery design, from his work in the KDW to the present day. This exhibition at 10 Patrick Street places some of his very early designs, worn, loved and sold today, beside his most recent bespoke jewellery creations.
Friday 5th & Saturday 6th July 9.30 am – 5.30 pm daily* Rudolf Heltzel, Patrick Street *closed for lunch 1.00 – 2.00 pm
Design in Practice
Since 2011 Kilkenny County Council Arts Office in partnership with the Community and Culture Department, has organised a series of exciting participatory art projects — Three Bags Full; Born to Knit and Making Space. The projects have drawn together individuals and groups across the community and across the generations, fostering community cohesion and exchanges that last far beyond the life of the projects. Participants have shorn sheep, watched the fleece being processed and used the wool for felting; they have knitted, yarn bombed, crocheted, drank tea, chatted, made a documentary — and this year they will make a three-dimensional space! Three Threads offers us an inspirational glimpse into previous projects and a flavour of current work in progress — plus an opportunity to brush up on our crochet skills with free drop-in workshops over the two days of the festival.
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A collection of watches designed by 4th Year Industrial Design students at IT Carlow to celebrate one hundred years of British design and innovation. Students were required to research, design and develop proposals for a wristwatch inspired by a classic British design and/or engineering innovation from the 20th Century. All the watches were designed around standard Soprod SA watch movements and case components were manufactured using traditional watch making techniques or appropriate additive manufacturing technologies.
Friday 5th & Saturday 6th July 10.00 am – 6.00 pm daily Pembroke Hotel, Patrick Street
Three Threads
Friday 5th July, 11 am – 7 pm Saturday 6th July, 11 am – 6 pm Courtyard Gallery 2, Castle Yard Fennelly’s presents ‘Fox in Town’
Fennelly’s is a contemporary space in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, devised and curated by Etaoin Holahan. It presents an eclectic, engaging and experimental mix of installations, interventions, screenings, spoken word, culinary adventures, theatre, live music, conversations and more. For the IDEATE festival, it is decamping to Kilkenny for one night only. Inspired by this temporary displacement, Fox in Town will centre around notions of how otherness is represented as an extension of the self. Involving interactive performance leading to the creation of a series of masks and puppets by artist Steve Aylin, and a selection of screenings mined from popular culture that utilise puppetry and masks outside their normative form — expect the unexpected!
Friday 5th July, 5.00 pm – 10.00 pm Cleere’s Theatre, Parliament Street
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Creative City on Screen … an evening of animation and short films from some of Kilkenny’s rich film-making talent, supported by Billy Byrne’s Bar Friday 5th July 5.00 pm – 8.00 pm Billy Byrnes, John Street Free Event, drop in
Holidays Cormac Cavanagh (2011, 23 mins) A black comedy drama about a lonely girl who befriends a corpse in an attempt to understand life, death and loss.
Going to war over a banana truck Andrew Pike (2012, 05:30 mins) An animation reflecting the stupidity of war. Having been a gardener for many years, Andrew Pike studied art at Ormonde College, Kilkenny before becoming one of the first artists to join the KCAT Studio in Callan. Since then he has exhibited and travelled extensively worldwide. Though most well known for his painting, Andrew has awardwinning animations to his credit.
Old Fangs Directed by Adrien Merigeau for Cartoon Saloon (2009, 12mins) The story of a young wolf who decides to confront his father who he has not seen in a long time.
Cúilín Dualach Directed by Nora Twomey for Cartoon Saloon (2010, 12mins) Cúilín Dualach lives in a small town in the west of Ireland. He strives to fit in as best he can but that can be difficult when your head is on backwards!
From Darkness Directed by Nora Twomey for Cartoon Saloon (2008, 8.5 mins) A lonely fisherman drifts into haunted waters in search of food and finds much more than he bargained for. Based on an Inuit folktale Cartoon Saloon began as an informal partnership initiated by Paul Young and Tomm Moore in Kilkenny in 1999 and has since grown into a multi-award winning animation and illustration design studio. The studio works with many diverse international clients such as Disney, BBC and Cartoon Network and was recently nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature film.
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Cormac Cavanagh received an MA in Film from DCU in 2005 and has since worked in the industry in Dublin and now Kilkenny. His work has been shortlisted for the RTE/Galway Film Centre Short Film Award and the Film Offaly/Filmbase Short Film Award. Holidays was screened at the Corona Cork Film Festival in 2011.
Eric Paul Mahon (2011, 10.00 mins) A Puppeteer’s love story
Storm in a Teacup by Paul Mahon (2011, 11.41 mins) A musical tale of a melancholy inventor leaving his aerial abode and heading earthbound. Paul Mahon (aka Gepetto) is a multidisciplinary filmmaker, musician & visual artist from Kilkenny. His award-winning film work has been screened at a number of festivals including the 2012 Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival Sydney and the Canadian International Film Festival. He is a long time collaborator with fellow Kilkenny musician RSAG, creating live visuals which have travelled from London to New York, RTE to SXSW festival, Texas.
Creative City on Screen … Friday 5th July 5.00 pm – 8.00 pm Billy Byrnes, John Street Free Event, drop in
Vultures Directed by Alan Slattery for Mycrofilms (17 mins each)
The External World David O’Reilly (2011, 17:00 mins) A boy learns to play piano
Vultures is a webcom about dicks... private dicks. Set up by Alan Slattery and John Morton in 2006, Mycrofilms is film and video production company based in Kilkenny. Two series and twelve episodes of Vultures were made between 2007 and 2012 in Kilkenny. The series was part of BeActive Media’s Digital Comedy Lab and has frequently been in the Top 10 of Irish video podcasts on iTunes
Please Say Something David O’Reilly (2009, 10:00 mins) A troubled relationship between a Cat & Mouse
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Kilkenny-born David O’Reilly lives and works in Los Angeles, California. His short film, Please Say Something, was awarded the Golden Bear at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival. His latest short film, The External World, premiered at the 67th Venice Film Festival and the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and has since won over forty awards including an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Animation. In 2011 he received the World Cultural Council Leonardo Da Vinci Award for contribution to the field of Animation.
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Creative City on Screen … a day of films exploring craft, design and creativity, supported by the Set Theatre Saturday 6th July 11.30 am – 4.00 pm Set Theatre, John Street Free Event, drop in
12.00 pm Design & Thinking Directed by Mu-Ming Tsai and Pei-Yun Lai (2011, 74 mins)
2.20 pm Hands – Hurl Making by David and Sally Shaw-Smith (1983, 28 mins)
Exploring the impact design thinking has on the world, this Kickstarter-funded documentary features designers, businessmen and social change-makers discussing this ever-changing school of thought. Among them: laptop inventor and IDEO co-founder Bill Moggridge; Smart Design co-founder Dan Formosa and AIGA CEO Ric Grefe.
David and Sally Shaw-Smith made Hands, a unique, multi-award winning series of thirty-seven documentaries on Irish crafts for Irish television (RTÉ), capturing the final years of traditional rural and urban life in Ireland during the seventies and eighties. This episode features hurl-making in Kilkenny, with master craftsman Ramie Dowling creating a hurl that makes it to the All Ireland hurling final at Croke Park in Dublin – no change there then!
1.20 pm Irish Folk Furniture Directed by Tony Donoghue and produced by Cathal Black (2012, 8.19 mins) In this animated documentary, 16 pieces of traditional folk furniture are repaired, re-loved and returned home. Winner of Best Animated Film, Sundance Film Festival 2013.
1.40 pm IKEA Butter Churn for Gneeveguilla, Co. Kerry by Gareth Kennedy (2011, 32 mins) Over the Summer of 2011, artist Gareth Kennedy worked with the people of Gneeveguilla to develop and enact an invented tradition for the village. This involved re-purposing IKEA products to create a butter churn and firkin, plus a ceremonial butter-pat production and burial parade. The project, filmed on Super8, at once pays tribute to David and Sally Shaw Smith’s seminal Hands series of films, as well as co-opting and transgressing the aesthetic dominance of global giant IKEA. Its intent is to serve as a celebration of the continuity of people and place in spite of hard economic times.
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3.00 pm Handmade Nation by Faythe Levine (2009, 65 mins) Artist and curator Faythe Levine traveled to 15 cities and covered more than 19,000 miles to interview artists, crafters, makers, curators and community members to document the new grassroots wave of DIY art, craft and design. The film captures an activist subculture where ethics, community and creativity flourish. Those featured include Jenny Hart, whose Sublime Stitching has revolutionized the embroidery industry; Nikki McClure who sells thousands of her cut-paper wall calendars annually; and Stephanie Syjuco, who manufactures clothing under the tag line “Because Sweatshops Suck”
Acknowledgements
Festival Producer Ann Mulrooney Project Manager Evelyn McNamara Creative Team Louise Allen, Catherine Phibbs, Susan Holland, Muireann Charleton, Evelyn McNamara, Ann Mulrooney, with support from Brian Byrne, Claire Quigley and Ciara Gannon AV and Documentation Darragh Byrne PR Christine Monk Festival Identity and Communications an Atelier Project www.atelier.ie Print generously supported by Plus Print, Dublin www.plusprint.ie
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Ideate festival had been devised and produced by the National Craft Gallery and the Crafts Council of Ireland. It has received funding from the IPB Gathering Ireland Fund 2013, and received programme funding via INNOCRAFTS under the INTERREG IVC Programme. It has been generously sponsored by AIB, the Pembroke Hotel and Business Innovation Centre, by Lemongrass restaurant and by the Brewery Corner. It has partnered with designCORE at Institute of Technology, Carlow, the Civic Works and Kilkenny County Council Arts Office in delivering programme elements. It has been supported with incredible generosity of spirit by ALL the participants and venues who have contributed time, energy and talent to the making of this festival and we would particularly like to thank Cultivate and Cloughjordan Eco Village; Donal O’Brien and Kilkenny Civic Trust; Brian Tyrrell, Denis Malone and Kilkenny Borough and County Councils; Pivot Dublin; Cartoon Saloon; Rudolf Heltzel’s; Indigo and Cloth; Atelier David Smith; Commonage; Billy Byrne’s; the Set Theatre; Cleere’s; Butler Gallery; Wishingbone Gallery; Gorgeous; National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL); Willie Byrne; Ali Grehan; Dr. Margaret Wasz; Anthony Kelly; Bryan Leech; David de Courcey; Tara Whelan; Dave Head; Garrett Pickett; David Smith; Gareth Kennedy; Malcolm Noonan; Chris Heltzel; Daniela Cardillo; Eimear Conyard; Anna O’Sullivan; Mel O’Rourke; Mary Butler; John Cleere; Tomm Moore; Ross Stewart; Milo Fitzgerald; Naoise Nunn; Ken Maguire; John Morton; Alan Slattery; Mick Minogue; Rosie Lynch; Etaoin Holohan; Steve Aylin; Amanda Horan, Jackie Murphy and Deirdre O’Brien of Fáilte Ireland; Rosemary Collier; Roisin McQuillan; Paul Young; Una Walker; Faythe Levine, Melissa Huang; Sally and David Shaw-Smith; Aisling Hayes – and of course the pioneers and visionaries who made up the Kilkenny Design Workshops, and the craftspeople, artists and creatives who have made Kilkenny the vibrant and creative place that it is today. We are standing on the shoulders of giants. The Crafts Council of Ireland (CCoI) is the main champion of the craft industry in Ireland, fostering its growth and commercial strength, communicating its unique identity and stimulating quality design, innovation and competitiveness. CCoI’s activities are funded by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation via Enterprise Ireland. CCoI currently has over 75 member organisations and over 2,700 registered clients