RiseCreatives

This month sees Sinéad Glynn in the Leinster Gallery in Dublin in a group exhibition called ‘Reverie’. The exhibition runs until the 31^stJuly. You can also see her work in Gallery 2 in the Kilkenny Design Centre from the 7^th – 16^thAugust as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival.

Eily O’Connell and Sabrina Meyns will be exhibiting their new work as part of the Workhouse Studios in the Custom House Studios in Westport, Co. Mayo. The picture here is a sample of Eily’s new work called ‘Aladin’s Maze’.  This new piece is cast from potato sprouts and other organic material with quartz inset. According to Eily, the piece is called Aladin’s Maze because Aladin is a type of potato and it looks like a maze with all the intersecting sprouts grasping the treasure (the quartz). Both the name and piece have a magical feel!

The exhibition in the Custom House Studios in Westport Co. Mayo opens on the 19th August.

The Ceramics Ireland Exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle Dublin runs until the 11^th July, 2010. The Exhibition features aspects of contemporary clay practice including functional, decorative and sculptural. The exhibition is showcasing over 45 designer/makers including ceramic artists Lesley Kelly and Sinéad Glynn.

Emma Bourke, Fiona Byrne and Sarah Gavigan will be taking part in a group exhibition titled “Dolly Mix” at the Mad Art Gallery, Dublin. The exhibition showcases the work of nine emerging female artists and designers in 2D and sculptural works. According to Emma Bourke curator and exhibitor, “the collection of works in glass, ceramic, metal and fine art is tactile, diverse and demanding in responses from the viewer. Dolly Mix highlights the technical skill and the individual conceptual response from each artist to her craft based medium, resulting in a successful composition of Irish contemporary art and craft.”

The exhibition runs from the 10^th- 19^th June at the MadArt Gallery, 56 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin 1

Emma Bourke (Glass Designer) is currently taking part in a summer group exhibition called “Sculpture in the Gardens” at the Mill Cove Gallery, Castletownbere, Cork. She is also taking part in another group exhibition at the Mad Art Gallery opening 10^th June.

Sinéad Glynn is one of the artists in the “Art of Clay” exhibition currently running at the Gallery Zozimus, Dublin.

Cherith Brown (Fine Art) is currently studying a Masters in Fine Art and her end of year show takes place from the 31^st May – 5^th June, The Station, Belfast.

The winners of the Future Makers grants and awards scheme were announced last Thursday 6th May. We would like to congratulate two members of RiseCreatives Sabrina Meyns (Jewellery Design) and Sinéad Glynn  (Ceramic Artists-Designer) on their success.

Sabrina Meyns is one of 7 artists who have been invited to exhibit in Makers Guild in Wales exhibition, “From Pulp …”. The seven artists are Sabrina Meyns, Carol Farrow, Shellie Holden, Sasha Kingston, Hannah Lobley, Gill Willson and Sarah Kelly. Each artist has selected unique methods of working with paper in some form. Sabrina uses handmade paper, seeds and fine silver to create delicate jewellery pieces. She says that, “this choice of media best translates my fascination with translucency, fragility and the ephemeral beauty that exists in nature. Light activates the work; illuminating the finest of details inherent in the materials and those which have been purposely trapped and worked into them.”

The exhibition runs from the 15th of May until the 4th of July at the Craft in the Bay Gallery, Cardiff.  

Sabrina was also recently selected by the CCoI for the Irish Craft Portfolio exhibition which runs from the 26th March to the 22nd May.