Applications are now open to Feltmakers Ireland AND Feltmakers North members for our annual juried exhibition in the Phoenix Park Visitors’ Centre. This will be an All Ireland exhibition.
The theme is Bountiful, which you may interpret in any way that you wish. Please see the particular guidelines on the downloadable form below.
Forms and queries should be returned to Deirdre Crofts by email. (Her address is on the form).
The Downloadable Application:
Deadline: the 1st of September.
Feltmakers Ireland members are invited to create BOUNTIFUL-inspired art for our annual juried exhibition at the Phoenix Park Visitors’ Centre.
You can submit up to three pieces. So let’s get creative and see how this theme can be applied to our beloved medium of FELT.
Deadline: The 1st of September.
Please see the particular guidelines on the downloadable form below.
Forms and queries should be returned to Deirdre Crofts by email. (Her address is on the form).
For inspiration, here is a slideshow of some of the work from our previous year’s exhibition – Building Bridges.
Applications are now open to members for our annual juried exhibition in the Phoenix Park Visitors’ Centre. The theme is Bountiful, which you may interpret in any way that you wish. Please see the particular guidelines on the downloadable form below.
Forms and queries should be returned to Deirdre Crofts by email. (Her address is on the form).
The Downloadable Application:
Deadline: the 1st of September.
Artists who are established, emerging, or enjoy creating art as a hobby, are invited to submit a piece of visual art exploring the theme of Climate and Health for an exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland to be held in October 2023.
The deadline is Monday, 28 August 2023.
For more information, visit their website – https://www.rcpi.ie/Art-Competition-Climate-and-Health
As part of August Craft Month, Feltmakers Ireland member Tamzen Lunday is teaching on Sunday, 20th August, from 1pm-4pm at the lovely studio and shop – Brookwood Pottery in Marino Mart, Fairview Dublin.
Only 4 places are available, at €60 each, all materials provided.
You can secure your place directly on Tamzen’s website –https://www.tamzenlundydesigns.ie/services-1
This half-day class will offer you an insight into wet feltmaking. You will learn some skills like making a bobble. Making a rope and trying out 3D feltmaking by making a small pod. She will also show and hopefully inspire you to try out these different techniques.
How might you apply these in your creative development? Are you a TY Student going on to study Art at Leaving? This would give you a new skill, textiles and sculpture combined!
Are you starting out on a PLC course in September? Perhaps putting together a portfolio?… This taster session might inspire you for projects to include that will set you apart.
Or are you just looking for something new, a new craft? Wet felting is very sensory; learn to explore your own creativity and try it out with this taster.
To sign up, visit Tamzen’s website – https://www.tamzenlundydesigns.ie/services-1
The Textile Journey Festival is a celebration of creativity and all things wool and textile.
It includes a variety of events: a summer camp, daily textile demonstrations, a materials and tools exchange, open studios & workshops.
The festival is an invitation to everyone: come and try making or exploring textiles.
Includes the Annual Exhibition of Textile Journey Group.
Daily Demonstrations will showcase the skills of Irish textile artists: Cosima Malloy, Helen Crawford, Jane Fox, Mary Palmer, Kim Lin Morris, Rachel McKinney, Aine Dunne, Suzanne Duke, Patricia O’Connor and Niki Collier.
The event runs from the 31st of July to the 6th of August at The Orangery, Marlay Park, Dublin.
For more information, visit the website: https://textilejourney.ie/2023/05/11/textile-journey-festival-2023/
Juried applications are now open to members for our annual juried exhibition in the Phoenix Park Visitors’ Centre. The theme is Bountiful, which you may interpret in any way that you wish. Please see the particular guidelines on the downloadable form below.
Forms and queries should be returned to Deirdre Crofts by email. (Her address is on the form).
The Downloadable Application:
Deadline: the 1st of September.
Happy Feltmaking!!!
Feltmaker Ireland member Dr Niki Collier has been invited to develop a series of engagements at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA).
The residency involves Niki’s practice by connecting her work to IMMA’s collections and current exhibitions.
Using the ancient craft of wool we would start the quest for identity – ours and that of our immediate circle of friends and family. How do we curate identity in the era of constant self-expression and fierce curation of narrative?
Dr Niki Collier
Join Niki Collier for this fun workshop for children and adults while viewing our photography exhibition ‘Influence and Identity’, Twentieth Century Portrait Photography from the Bank of America Collection.
The first workshop was on the 15th of June, but there are several more upcoming. Please keep an eye out on Niki’s Instagram – @nikicollierfelt.
The workshops are free, but booking is essential. There is also a drop-in on Sundays, so if you are free, come by at 2 PM.
Book the workshops on IMMA Outdoors – https://imma.ie/whats-on/imma-outdoors-2023-workshops/
On Sunday, the 11th of June, Feltmakers Ireland was fortunate to learn about FI member Claire Merry’s amazing felted creations.
Claire creates felt works in numerous formats, including gossamer wearables, enormous, felted wall pieces, and whimsical three-dimensional sculptures. Impressively, she uses multiple feltmaking techniques, including needle felting, Nuno felting, wet felting, working in white and then dyeing. The list goes on – she is unafraid to explore and is a master of new techniques.
There were so many unique pieces. One of the highlights was a silk rose-covered wedding gown with a very long train. Knowing we would be interested, Claire unfurled the huge underlayment resist she used to make the dress. Someone asked if she made the garment in sections. She explained that she did not – she felted it all together. There are two resists: one for the front AND one for the back.
A close-up of the two wedding pieces.
A Gallery of some of the photographs from the June Sunday Session.
The Guild wants to thank Claire Merry for coming to our Sunday Session and sharing her inspiring work. We have a fascinating, photo-filled interview with Claire from 2020.
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In the second half of the meeting, member Deirdre Crofts shared Mind Mapping for Creative Idea Generation. We will have this as a separate blog post.
The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) has an exhibition of graduate work. The show runs through this Saturday, the 16th of June. See the image below for gallery hours for the Sculpture graduate show.
Amongst the Sculpture and Expanded Practice graduates is a Feltmakers Ireland member – Mary Hoy. Huge Congratulations to Mary on accomplishing this!!
You can see Mary perform ‘Turn the Compost’ daily at 1 PM (except on Wednesday the 14th).
To learn of other talks and performances, see here – https://ncad.works/events
For more details, visit NCAD’s website – https://ncad.works/
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