Exhibition

BETWEEN ART AND INDUSTRY  now at Millennium Court Arts centre Portadown August 4th – September 25th 2012

William St Portadown Co Armagh BT623NX

Between Art and Industry offers an opportunity to explore the shifting relationships between craft and industry through the use of objects, imagery and sound.

With the advent of globalisation, methods of manufacturing have shifted dramatically. Outsourcing of labour to other countries has resulted in decline of industrial manufacturing in Ireland and the UK. This exhibition reflects on those trends, on their consequences and costs, and on the potential for sustainable, highly skilled small-scale production to offer a new model. It looks to examine the shifting values that suggest the evolution of manufacturing now is towards a closer relationship with craft and the handmade. The exhibition features three different viewpoints from Róisín de Buitléar glass artist, Neil Brownsword ceramist, and Molloy and sons, weavers.

http://www.nationalcraftgallery.ie/exhibitions/between-art-and-industry

Breath

-Many breaths blown much breath wasted.

Blown and cut

Glass Cone  Sentries in our landscape, crumbling cold furnaces 

Blown, cut, copper wheel engraved. h260 x w160mm Photo Credit: Philip Lauterbach

Handmade in Waterford Ireland – Skeletal

Blown, Cut, Diamond Point Engraved  Dim: Diameter 260mm x 150mm  Photo Credit: Philip Lauterbach

Breath  Many breaths blown, much breath wasted, last breath?

Dim: Diameter 320mm x h420mm 1 of 3 pieces Blown, Cut Photo Credit: Philip Lauterbach

Union -Picket lines, negotiations, strong-arm tactics and twisted truths, cut the flow. 

Hot formed and cut Union 1: 236 x 160 x 60 Union 2: 300 x 160 x 65 Photo Credit: Philip Lauterbach

Defend!  - Glass manufacturing in the Viking city is under siege.

H 330 x W120mm  Blown, Cut. Photo Credit: Philip Lauterbach

Watch a youtube interview about the evolution context and making of the work here: