Engaging with Glass: a survey of contemporary Irish Glass Art April 21st – May 27th 2012
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Tambour – Limerick Lace Series. Blown glass with diamond point engraving.
Photo: Mike O Toole.
Category : Exhibition
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Category : Exhibition | News
Tags : contemprary glass, Crfats council of Ireland, Glass, Glass art, glass exhibition Ireland, Glass exhibitions in Europe 2012, glass sculpture, National craft Gallery, Sculpture, Waterford glass
Working on a new project based on Motion with 4th class of Gaelscoil Naomh Phádraig, as part of the CraftEd project initiated by the Crafts Council of Ireland to bring artists into primary schools to introduce different craft experiences to school communities.
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Tags : craft, crafts in the classroom, kids crafts, learn craft design
Title; ‘Only a drop’
Dimensions H250mm x W130mm
Title; Precious drop
Dimensions H200 x W150mm
Title ;River Music
Dimensions vary L330 xH190x W260mm
Title; Melody of the stream
Dimensions vary L1300 xH180x W260mm
Category : Current
Irish Incantation / Ortha
A series of glass sound objects created to create an Irish incantation, a harmony of voice, object and Irish soul. As a collection of displayed objects they communicate through pose and relationship with each other.
Category : Current
Liquid String
Based on a once common-place versatile bag made of knotted string this bag form tells its story through its cast shadow. Shaped by the ghost of it contents, its detail and history are defined by fine engraving describing the interlacing of knotted string. By casting a delicate but strong shadow it leaves the viewer decide what the content might be and marvel at the method of making which was often overlooked in the original item.
Materials Glass
Techniques Blown glass, hot formed glass, diamond point engraved
Dimensions vary H490 x W150x L280mm
Exhale
A basket form made of glass, captures the form of an exhalation of breath. The swollen form suggests a laden soft basket shaped by its contents. The fragile handle is drawn from the body of the basket as if it is one fluid line of continuous exhalation.
Title; Exhale
Materials Glass
Techniques; Blown hot formed glass, Dimensions vary H300 xL280x W130mm
Category : Current | Exhibition
Róisín de Buitléar has been selected to represent Ireland at;
PRESENTING THE BEST OF EUROPEAN GLASS
BORNHOLM – DENMARK
The exhibition European Glass Art represents professional and established artists within the field of glass art. European Glass Art will be shown at Bornholms Art Museum from 15.9 – 18.11.2012.
To see full list of participating artists go to http://www.europeanglasscontext.com/events/exhibitions
Category : Exhibition | News
Tags : European glass, European Glass Context 2012, Glass exhibitions in Europe 2012, Glass in Bornholm
As the Year Of Craft draws to a close I am inviting; artists, historians, clients, collectors, gallerists, writers, friends, patrons and lovers of glass to participate in Glass Net Ireland.
In 2011 An Post, in association with the Crafts council of Ireland, issued the stamp illustrated above with an image of my work entitled ‘Catch a Breath’ This stamp was one in a series of five stamps issued to mark the year of Craft. The image is of a glass butterfly net, with a gently curving glass handle, which hangs in space creating an ethereal shadow. This piece speaks of a carefree time, of tripping through a meadow as a child, unconscious of time and chasing the elusive. There is a certain wistfulness expressed in this work, in wanting to remember to make time to dawdle, to see the beauty in the ordinary, and to celebrate the little things we can so quickly forget when life gets too busy.
Inspired by the occasion of this issue, I am collaborating with An Post to build on the archive of information about contemporary Irish glass. I am inviting anyone with a story or connection with contemporary Irish Glass to write to me with accounts of their personal experience with glass. It may be the story of a piece of glass you received as a special gift or inheritance, a piece that you commissioned, a story of a relative who works in glass, an artist you met, collaborated with or documented. It may be an encounter with a work or process you wish to have recorded in the national archive and publicly accessible.
Photographic images, original documents and hand written or email accounts- all are acceptable but cannot be returned. Please include your own name and contact address and feel free to spread the net as wide as you wish! The stamp is available from An Post – on line http://www.irishstamps.ie/shop/c-94-the-year-of-craft-in-ireland.aspx or in larger post offices countrywide.
Postal Address; 37 Ashfield Rd, Ranelagh, Dublin 6.
Email; redbuitlear@yahoo.com
Category : Project
Tags : an post, Archive, Archive on contemporary glass, craft stamps, Glass Net Ireland, Glass stamp, info@rdebuitlear.com, Irish Contemporary Glass, National Archive, Year of Craft, Year of craft stamps
Pictured above, President Mary Mc Aleese, with Róisín de Buitléar and children from the Phoenix park school.
September 26th 2011, saw the unveiling of ‘Taste!’ a Glass and steel sculpture by Róisín de Buitléar. Under the per cent for art scheme, it was commissioned by the OPW on behalf of the Presidents office on the occasion of the creation of the Sensory border in the Gardens at Áras an Úachtaráin.
The first crop of Irish strawberries for sale, are a signal of the arrival of the Irish summer!
This luscious glass strawberry perched on a steel fork appears to be plunging through the through the Victorian wall. It suggests someone snatching a strawberry or tempting a passer by with the bounty from the garden behind, indicating the location of the adjoining Kitchen Garden. Suspended on a fork from above the viewer, it is just out of reach and creates a yearning for the taste and smell of fresh strawberries. This sculpture is designed to be immediately accessible to the general public through the use of familiar objects and humour.
The unveiling was celebrated by the President Mary Mc Aleese accompanied by local school children from the Phoenix park.
Taste! is situated in the Victorian garden next to the Queens walk, some metres from the main house. The house and gardens are open to the public every Saturday.
Entirely manufactured in Ireland, the glass was blown and hot formed in the studios of the Irish Handmade glass company, Waterford, and the steel was made at Grogan Engineering, Dublin.
Category : Current
Adornment
An Exhibition of Photography and Jewellery at Designworks Studio, Cornmarket, Cork, opens September 22nd 2011. Featuring The Urban warrior collection of Jewellery by Tuula Harrington in collaboration with Róisín de Buitléar. Also featuring jewellery by Rachel Swan, Ger Breslin, Sam Lafford, Mette O Connor, Christina Brosnan, Seamus Gill, and Derek Mc Garry, with photography by Agata Stoinska. Concept and art direction by Eddie Shanahan.
Category : Exhibition | News
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