From the second to the ninth of November we celebrated design week with a host of activities at Irish Design shop….....
Brian Clarke is a silversmith, working from his studio in Ballinaclash, Co. Wicklow.
Liz Nilsson is a Swedish born designer-maker. She has practiced in the field of art and design for the last twenty years in Sweden, the UK and Ireland.
A new addition to the store is work by Ulrika Holmquist. Born in Sweden, she moved to Ireland in 1990, and having started working in ceramics as a hobby, she has gone on to complete a degree and MA in NCAD. Borrowing the techniques of mass-production, she creates bold, bright and playful ceramics in her Rathmines studio.
The Lisnavagh Timber Project grows, sources, conditions and supplies fully traceable home-grown Irish hardwood timber, from sustainable resources, to Ireland’s furniture makers and woodworkers.
Dave Comiskey is a Dublin-based illustrator/artist who graduated with a degree in fine art from NCAD in 2004. His witty and individual style of drawing has resulted in Dave landing a host of well respected clients. We dropped by one afternoon to ask him a few questions and to video him drawing one of his characters.
Sinead is a graduate of NCAD and, more recently of the Craft Council’s Pottery Skills Course in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. She makes functional and decorative hand-thrown pieces from her workshop in Kerry and also works to commission. We caught her in the act in her cowshed studio near Dingle.
Heather’s business began as a stall in Cow’s Lane Market. She has gone on to acclaim and appreciation both nationally and internationally. We met her at her North Strand studio in Dublin and shot a short video of her at work…
Bookbinding conjures up images of bespectacled men lovingly caressing a book with jewel encrusted sides, opening it carefully with a slight creak, blowing dust off the pages which scatter adding to the air of suspense and contribute to the combined whole, the impression we have of bookbinding as special and antiquated.
Clare graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2002. She is a co-founder of this site and in a dramatic move has decided to turn her deadly questionnaire on herself…
Laura works primarily in silver combining it with a range of materials, her latest work being with beech wood. Along with Clare she is behind the Irish Design Shop so what better time to get a Q&A out of the way than the day of the site launch?
