Taoiseach, Micheál Martin T.D. and Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin T.D on July 23 announced that the contract for the design for the redevelopment at the historic Crawford Art Gallery has been awarded to Grafton Architects. The overall plan provides for the investment of […]
Geoff Greenham is a photographer who fouces on landscape, still life and portraiture (mostly informal). He also uses software to make composite images. His photographs in this year’s ‘Home Ground’ West Cork Creates exhibition “feature places in Skibbereen as they were in 1990 incorporated into images of those same places […]
Perched in the heart of Bandon town sits Grey Heron, a design-led gift shop that first opened its bright yellow doors in April 2019. The history of the shop stretches back further though; before refurbishment and rebranding it was known simply as Bandon Craft Centre. The new lease of life […]
‘Collaboration’ is a limited edition collection of hazel armchairs, with footstools, made by Alison Ospina with quilting, patchwork and stitching by textile Artist Mary Palmer. The collection is part of the West Cork Creates Exhibition 2021. Each year, green wood chair-maker Alison Ospina searches for textile designers with an interest […]
From August 6 – 18 at Blue House Gallery in Schull, Stephen Lawlor ‘A Liminal State’; prints, paintings and sculpture comes with the publication by Gandon of a substantial book on his work with text by, amongst others, John Banville and Theo Dorgan. One thinks of liminality as the state, […]
Likened to ‘painting with yarn’, punch needle is a traditional form of rug making, one where you create continuous loops of wool by punching your needle in and out of a special fabric. Certified Oxford Punch Needle Instructor, artist and environmental scientist Michelle O’Driscoll is the owner of Wild […]