Dublin Gallery Weekend is a citywide celebration of contemporary art, with eleven galleries, representing over 300 of Ireland’s leading artists, who have established major national and international reputations. In addition to exhibitions, the weekend includes film screenings, talks, and other events.
As part of Dublin Gallery Weekend 2026, Olivier Cornet Gallery presents ‘Tales of Human Follies’, a group exhibition marking the 300th anniversary of Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. Using narrative and fantasy, the show explores complex ideas about human nature, society, and politics. Feltmakers Ireland guild member Annika Berglund has work on display at the Olivier Cornet Gallery.
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For its 5th annual symposium, Fibreshed Ireland will bring together farmers, processors, designers, makers, researchers, and consumers from around the island and beyond to offer solutions for the challenges of shortening value chains in the European textile industry.
Presentations, panel discussions, and interactive conversations with:
Alberte Holmø Bojesen — Copenhagen-based textile and material designer and researcher
Babette Leertouwer — Dutch textile artist and founder of Halona
Sabina Diaconu — Romanian textile artist, embroiderer and collector
Alison Nea — award-winning Irish textile artist and founder of Modh
Cathy Coughlan — co-founder of award-winning Celtic Tweed
Eva Kerley and Georgia Connolly — designers and researchers working at the intersection of textiles, material culture and circular design
Frederique van Buuren — textile maker with a passion for wool, knitting, spinning and education
Kathy Kirwan — eco-social artist, educator, flax enthusiast, and founder of Flax Lín
Thomas “Rusty” Weise — textile maker and lacemaker
Yamila Fournier & Niamh FitzGerald — exploring the surprising connections between birds, nest-building, architecture and human textile traditions
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Longtime Feltmakers Ireland guild member, textile artist Mel Bradley, will share her Textile Journey on Sunday, the 18th of October. Mel creates her work and runs workshops out of her studio, Gallery 13, which is in the Millmount Craft Quarter in Drogheda, Co Louth.
Mel paints silk scarves, wraps, and cowls; she also creates Nunofelted wearables. Recent workshops have included Gelli Plate Printing, Shibori Dyeing with Indigo, and Silk Painting.
When: Sunday, the 18th of October, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
If you can, please bring a home-baked good to share and a travel mug (to decrease our use of disposable cups).
To reduce the spread of illnesses, please refrain from coming if you feel unwell.
Zoom Access
We will share a Zoom link to the session on Friday afternoon, the 16th.
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Group photo of Annika and many of the students at the end of the day.
On Sunday, the 11th of October, 18 students gathered around longtime guild member and artist, Annika Berglund, to explore how to make fine felt. We learned about the importance of using “gentle hands” and how to create “compact versus scrunchy felt”.
The workshop was divided into two parts, with Annika demonstrating each step along the way. In the morning, we created a flat square of black, white and grey felt, learning how careful handling of the wool fibres influences the finished material.
Editor’s favourite takeaway: Feltmaking transforms loose wool fibres into a new material, much like baking transforms butter, flour, sugar and eggs into a cake. Once these transformations have taken place, the original ingredients cannot simply be separated out and returned to their former state.
In the afternoon, students learned how to create a three-dimensional felt piece using a resist. Annika encouraged anyone new to the technique to “have faith” in the process, which is a reassuring reminder that sometimes you need to trust the felting.
The group included longtime members, newer members and even non-members. This mix sparked interesting conversations as students shared their textile interests and experiences.
Annika Demonstrating
Some photos of Annika demonstrating to the students.
The Busy Hall
The room was full of tables arranged in a chevron pattern, and students gathered in twos and threes.
Hands Working
Always nice to have photos of hands working!
Appreciation Time
Many thanks to Annika Berglund for taking the time to share her knowledge and lead the workshop! Additional thanks to the volunteers, Siobhán, Lorna, Irina, Fiona, Helena, Loli, Sam, and Juliane, who helped to set up the room and assist the students. Thank you to everyone who brought yummy treats to share, too!
Lastly, we were delighted that the filmmaking happening simultaneously in the adjacent room had limited impact on our workshop. (We were told there would be a rave scene with loud music!) Thanks again for everyone’s patience as we wove through the maze of interesting rooms to get to the big hall at the back of the CIE Sports Hall.
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Rua Red’s annual open call is an opportunity for graduates, emerging and established artists living on the island of Ireland to submit their work to be shown as part of a group exhibition.
They welcome submissions across all art forms that respond to the theme—Red, as a colour and a concept.
“Red is a warning. It is also the colour of love, warmth, desire and energy. It is the colour of blood, heat, fire, intense passion and beauty. Red can signal danger, mark a boundary, demand attention or call us to action.”
Works do not need to use the colour red.
Exhibition Dates: 11th of December 2026—6th of February 2027
Image: ‘Right Here, Right Now’ Annual Open Exhibition 2025. Photo by @kevincollinsphoto
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Take a jaunt along the Dun Laoghaire Charity Shop Trail and bring your treasures to Carnegie Library, where you’ll learn how to transform them to fit you!
Bring it along to The ReDiscovery Centre’s FREE Upcycle & Alteration Station at Carnegie Library as part of the Dun Laoghaire Charity Shop Trail.
When: Saturday, the 10th of October, from 11 AM to 4 PM. There are morning and afternoon sessions = 11 AM–1:30 PM and 1:30 PM–4 PM.
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We are again offering this popular technique improvement workshop, ‘Fine Felt’ for beginner and intermediate wet felters. It taught by guild member, artist, and tutor, Annika Berglund, and is recommended before taking our more advanced ‘Basic and Beyond Workshop’.
The course examines “Fine Felting,” which is traditionally desired in the craft of felting.
The class is a repeat of previous years’ Fine Felt Technical Workshops, but students are welcome to retake the workshop if they wish. Non-members are also welcome to register.
The Schedule
The class is composed of two parts: a Square 2D Sample and a Small 3D Vessel.
In the morning, beginner wet feltmakers will learn how to lay out wool using a flat 10-inch template and how to felt, full, and shrink. We will look at colour graduation and shrinkage rates.
During the morning session, more experienced feltmakers can focus on creating a very light, even layout using 10 grams of wool for a 10-inch square. We will look at how to get the densest, finest felt possible while working on creating a perfect square sample with a shrinkage of 30%, 40%, 50% or possibly 60%, depending on our speed of felting.
This may not be how we would do felting on an everyday basis. But this session spent truly concentrating on careful felting should improve our overall felting work.
Note:We will break for lunch. Please bring something to eat as we will only have 30 minutes. Tea and coffee will be provided. Bring a ‘travel mug’ to cut down on paper cup waste, and a baked good to share is always nice.
In the afternoon, we will apply what we learned in the morning to make the finest little vessel possible. We will use a different layout (spokes and wheel), laying out 10 grams of black and white wool around a 20 cm circular resist. The goal will be to create a very thin, fine vessel that is well-felted and sturdy.
Supplies
We will supply ALL wool and materials needed for the workshop.
Please bring TWO towels.
We will have spares, but if you have the following items, please bring them with you:
A bowl
A water sprinkling brauser or similar (optional as we will have spares)
Small sharp scissors
Ruler with inches AND centimetres
When: 10 AM to 4 PM. We will start at 10:00 on the dot as we have much to cover. Please arrive a few minutes early to get settled in.
Volunteers from Feltmakers Ireland will be sharing felting during the festival, and several of our members will be vendors.
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Interwoven Neighbourhoods is a project that catalyses local communities to plant, tend to, harvest, craft with, save seed, and learn from a patchwork of flax meadows that will support local biodiversity.
Their pilot programme will begin in Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, and will be run for a year through a series of four seasonal workshops, or meitheals.
By collectively celebrating flax as a versatile crop that can easily be grown in many private and public gardens, Interwoven Neighbourhoods aims to weave together an active local network of neighbours, strengthening social cohesion across generations, social classes, and cultural backgrounds
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