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2 Exhibitions: Olga de Amaral & Chiharu Shiota Shows – Paris

Published on Jan 2, 2025Jan 2, 2025 by Feltmakers Ireland

Travelling to Paris this winter? Two art exhibitions may be of interest.

Olga de Amaral Exhibition

The Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain hosts the first significant European retrospective of Olga de Amaral, a pivotal artist in the Colombian art scene and Fibre Art movement. The exhibition features nearly 80 works from the 1960s to the present, including many pieces never before exhibited outside Colombia. In addition to the artist’s celebrated gold leaf creations, the showcase highlights her early textile experiments and monumental works.

The exhibition runs until the 16th of March, 2025.

On the Foundation’s Instagram, there are several interviews about de Amaral’s work with the curator, Marie Perennès – https://www.instagram.com/fondationcartier/

For more information, visit the Foundation’s website – https://www.fondationcartier.com/en/exhibitions/olga-de-amaral

Chiharu Shiota Exhibition

Chiharu Shiota is internationally celebrated for her monumental installations crafted from intricate networks of interwoven wool threads. These expansive creations often incorporate everyday objects, immersing viewers in a majestic, dreamlike journey.

Jointly organized with the Grand Palais and Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum, this exhibition is the most extensive presentation of Shiota’s work ever held in France. Spanning over 1,200 square meters, it provides an immersive sensory experience. The exhibition offers a comprehensive exploration of Shiota’s artistic journey, which has evolved over two decades. It features seven large-scale installations, including sculptures, photographs, drawings, performance videos, and archival materials related to her staging projects.

The show runs until the 19th of March, 2025.

For more information, visit the Grand Palace website – https://www.grandpalais.fr/fr/evenement/chiharu-shiota

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Reminder: Golden Fleece Award Application Deadline is Friday

Published on Nov 25, 2024Nov 24, 2024 by Feltmakers Ireland

The mission of the Golden Fleece Award is to provide resources for practising contemporary visual artists and makers to innovate and develop their artistic vision. In the previous year, only 20% of the applications received for the Golden Fleece Award were made by craft practitioners. Let’s change that this year!

The annual award supports artists working in all forms of visual, craft and applied arts at critical junctures of their careers. Applicants should reside in, or originally from, the island of Ireland.

Two €10,000 awards will be made in 2025, one in each of the two categories: Visual Art and Craft + Applied Art.

The submission deadline is 5pm on Friday, the 29th of November, 2024.

Note: Just over 240 applications were received for the 2024 Golden Fleece Award – 197 for Category 1: Visual Art and 45 for Category 2: Craft + Applied Art! (This is a much smaller number than applicants to the Arts Council of Ireland’s Agility Award. According to their Twitter/X, “We received a record number of 3,279 applications for our 2024 Agility Award”).

One can also read the past Golden Fleece Award applications to understand the judging better.

Here is a link to shortlisted textile artist and tapestry weaver Frances Crowe’s 2024 application – https://www.goldenfleeceaward.com/artists/frances-crowe
Here is a link to the 2021 winner’s application, textile artist Lorna Donlon – https://www.goldenfleeceaward.com/artists/lorna-donlon

For more information, visit the Golden Fleece Award’s website – https://www.goldenfleeceaward.com/

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Exhibition: Fibre Art Exhibition at the Renwick Gallery – Washington, DC USA

Published on Nov 14, 2024Nov 14, 2024 by Feltmakers Ireland

The artists featured in ‘Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women’ transformed everyday materials like cotton, felt, and wool into deeply expressive, personal creations. This exhibition offers an alternative perspective on twentieth-century American art, spotlighting the work of artists including Adela Akers, Neda Al-Hilali, Emma Amos, Lia Cook, Olga de Amaral, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Sheila Hicks, Agueda Martínez, Faith Ringgold, Miriam Schapiro, Joyce Scott, Judith Scott, Kay Sekimachi, Lenore Tawney, Katherine Westphal, Claire Zeisler, and Marguerite Zorach. These artists express their visions through sewn quilts, woven tapestries and rugs, intricate beadwork and embroidery, twisted and bound sculptures, and mixed-media assemblages.

If one cannot travel to the show, an accompanying audio program on the website delves into ten powerful backstories, enriching the experience of the displayed artworks. In addition, there is an online gallery, which links to over thirty pieces, and a short accompanying bio for each artist.

Where: The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA.

When: The exhibition runs until the 5th of January, 2025.

For more information, visit the museum’s website – https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/fiber-art-by-women

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Of Interest: Katrin Thorvaldsdottir’s Sculpture from Seaweed

Published on Oct 22, 2024 by Feltmakers Ireland

Not feltmaking, but of interest concerning sustainability and textiles: For over two decades, Katrín Þorvaldsdóttir (Thorvaldsdottir) has conducted her own research and experiments to learn how to preserve seaweed as a material to use in art and design.

Working with seaweed is a craft, she says. “It is not ‘just take this and design out of the blue’. You have to know the material, you have to listen to the material, so it takes time.”
Katrin Thorvaldsdottir via Guardian article.

To learn more, visit her website – https://katrinthorvaldsdottir.com/

Also, make sure to watch this lovely video about her – https://katrinthorvaldsdottir.com/film/

There is also an interview with her at the Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/nov/09/off-the-wrack-the-designer-using-seaweed-to-create-art-and-high-fashion

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Exhibition: Marjolein Dallinga – Group Textile Art Show – NYC

Published on Oct 4, 2024Oct 3, 2024 by Feltmakers Ireland

L’space Gallery, located in New York City, has a group exhibition, ‘Fibration: poking back‘, which shows the art of sixteen artists with fresh and compelling approaches to fibre and textile art. Artist and feltmaker Marjolein Dallinga has work in the show.

The show runs until the 26th of October.

To learn more about the show and see photographs, visit the gallery’s website – https://www.lspacegallery.com/fibration-poking-back-2024.html

There is a video from the show on the gallery’s Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/p/DABnZBZPoht/

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News: Marjolein Dallinga Featured in ‘Women Create’

Published on Jun 20, 2024Jun 18, 2024 by Feltmakers Ireland

Marjolein Dallinga in her fibre-filled studio, which is located in eastern Canada.

Artist and feltmaker Marjolein Dallinga, known as Bloomfelt, is featured in an inspiring, lengthy, and beautifully photograph-filled article in the online magazine ‘Women Create‘.

You can read 3 free articles in the online magazine before needing to register. Find the article here – https://womencreate.com/where/marjolein-dallinga/

Women Create is looking for submissions on where one creates and what one creates for their website – https://womencreate.com/submissions/

We also have an interview with Marjolein, from January 2020. – https://feltmakersireland.com/2020/01/30/interview-with-marjolein-darllinga/

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Sunday Session: This Sunday – Maria Mc Garry

Published on Jun 7, 2024May 27, 2024 by Feltmakers Ireland

Sunday Session – 9th of June – Maria Mc Garry **NEW LOCATION**

Guild member Maria Mc Garry from Co Laois, will give a show-and-tell of her experiences with working with galleries and selling at markets. She will also demonstrate how to make a ruffle felted scarf.

When: the 9th of June, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM.

There is a lovely ‘Meet the Maker’ interview from 2020 with Maria Mc Garry on the blog here – https://feltmakersireland.com/2020/08/16/meet-the-maker-maria-mc-garry/

Here is her Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/maria_mcgarry_textile_art_/

Temporary NEW Location

Where: We will meet for the June Sunday Session at a DIFFERENT location.

F2 -Fatima Community Centre.

Fatima Community Centre
Herberton Leisure
3 Reuben Plaza, Rialto, Dublin 8, D08 PV0H

Directions from the Red Line LUAS

Get off at Fatima Luas stop (Red Line) and walk to a set of traffic lights.

View from the LUAS

View of the LUAS Stop from across the street. Photos kindly provided by Adrienne Dempsey.

Cross at the traffic lights, walk straight ahead, and take the first right onto Reuben Plaza. You will then see the Herberton gym.

Photo of the Herberton Gym and the Arch Cafe on the corner.

Walk by the Herberton Gym and the Arch Cafe, then turn left. F2 Centre is located beside the green space/kids’ play area.

Where You Enter the Building

The entrance of the F2 Fatima Community Centre.

Parking

There is free street parking along St Anthony’s Road, which leads up to the F2 building. Parking is also available on Reuben Walk and Reuben Street, which surround the building.

Two disabled parking spots are at the top of St Anthony’s Road, leading onto Reuben Plaza and the F2 Centre.

Photo of the two disabled parking spots on St Anthony’s Road.

Additional Information

A Sunday Session like this will require lots of tea/ coffee/cake and chat, so there’ll be an abundance of that. Of course, homebakes are always welcome! There is the usual 5 euro fee.

On Friday, the 7th of June, the Guild will email members a Zoom Link for virtual access and also include a phone number to call for those who need help finding the Centre on the day of the event.

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Reminder: Maria Mc Garry – Sunday Session on the 9th – NEW LOCATION

Published on May 31, 2024May 27, 2024 by Feltmakers Ireland

Guild member Maria Mc Garry from Co Laois will give a show-and-tell of her experiences with working with galleries and selling at markets. She will also demonstrate how to make a ruffle felted scarf.

When: the 9th of June, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM.

There is a lovely ‘Meet the Maker’ interview from 2020 with Maria Mc Garry on the blog here – https://feltmakersireland.com/2020/08/16/meet-the-maker-maria-mc-garry/

Here is her Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/maria_mcgarry_textile_art_/