While most of lockdown was spent in her studio in Berlin, artist Noël O’Callaghan admits to very much missing Ireland during this period, so much so that it provided easy inspiration for her work in this year’s West Cork Creates exhibition ‘Home Ground’. “I began to paint from memory places I […]
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With 260,000 visitors a year pre-pandemic, Crawford Art Gallery is one of Cork’s most popular attractions, second only to Fota Wildlife Park. With the transfer of the Crawford Art Gallery from the auspices of Cork Education and Training Board to the Office of Public Works recently concluded and the total […]
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 […]
Dividing her time between London and her studio in Leap where she works obsessively when she’s in Ireland, ceramicist Kathleen Standen looks to the ever-changing patterns of weather in the South West, together with such natural elements as rock strata, moving and still water, lichen, wild flowers and the fishing […]
“Heir Island had no choice but to become home,” shares painter and printmaker Christine Thery with Mary O’Brien, recalling when she first set foot on the small island off West Cork. It was to be another five years after sailing to the Caribbean and US before Christine and her husband […]