Join our social media challenge as we work towards being more climate conscious in our glass practices. Share how you are changing your habits, materials, processes, packaging or working towards lowering your carbon footprint in your glass practice. Post a photo, a video, or go live in your Instagram stories to share with us! Invite…
The Harry Clarke Studios became one of the most important Irish art businesses of the 20th century. Paul Donnelly charts the growth globally. In 1930 Harry Clarke renamed the church decoration and stained glass making firm he inherited from his father as 'Harry Clarke Studios'. One of Clarke’s ambitions for the Studios was to expand…
The National Sculpture Factory is a place of production; a place where artworks are always becoming, and where artists delve into a wide variety of material enquiry and research. Material Laboratories is our new programmatic strand that will focus on specific material researches and medium specific practices through an intensified series of Masterclasses, workshops, lectures…
George Walsh is one of Ireland's finest contemporary stained glass artists, represented in the Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass by over a hundred windows dating from the 1960s to the present day. George's father, George Stephen Walsh, apprenticed under Harry Clarke, later moving to Northern Ireland to design for Clokey of Belfast. While there, George…
In this fun workshop, join the experienced instructors from Glint Glass Studio, to design and create your own drinking glass and stirrer. Using specialist equipment at our pop up studio at the Dock, students will learn techniques such as grinding, and engraving glass under supervision of the expert instructors. Make a juice, whiskey or cocktail…
Come join the Glass Society of Ireland for a social evening in the convivial setting of Mc Hughs pub in Carrick on Shannon Co Leitrim. Cosy fires and a lovely atmosphere awaits you where you can meet other glassmakers and practitioners, meet some old friends and get to know some new faces. Bring your own…
Join Róisín de Buitléar for a FREE one hour walking tour of the stained glass in Carrick on Shannon, Leitrim! Find out more and reserve your spot at https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/464317926417 Join in for an informative and fun morning! This stained glass walking tour is funded by @creativeireland and supported by @leitrimarts as part of the…
Come and join artist members of the @GlassSocietyofIreland to make your own sustainable stained glass in this FREE workshop! Join us at our pop-up studio at the Dock in Carrick on Shannon, for a stained glass workshop where our expert team will introduce you to different stained glass techniques to make a copper foil (Tiffany)…
An overview of Murphy-Devitt Studios, Dublin, whose work spanned 1955-2004 in site specific abstract and figurative glass presented by Reiltín Murphy. As Murphy-Devitt Studios, Dublin, this small group of artists and craftsmen produced stained glass from 1958 to 1978. Working together more loosely outside of these dates their work spans from 1955 to 2004.…