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Cuan Trá Ciaráin, 4x38x37cm, 2023. Made with a silicone mould taken from a damaged concrete wall. An almost circular wall piece, quietly textured and coloured, with some really beautiful surface variation This piece was glazed with a
Carraig an tSáile, 11x53x41cm, 2023 This wall piece was fired unglazed, just stoneware with some of the local clay in the previous post used as a slip. You can see the white quartz pebbles from the slip scattered across its surface It’
Carraig an tSáile, 8x60x34cm, 2023 I’ve been sitting with the work I made on Oileán Chléire last year, giving myself some time to consider the work fully - but I’m going to start sharing some more of the finished pie
Excited to be taking part in this at National Sculpture Factory in Cork. Over the weekend I'm going to be making a small collection of clay artefacts of the factory, through live casting directly from the NSF with silicone. These are processes I've b
Carraig an tSáile, 62 x 45 x 11cm, 2023. Stoneware with beach quartz inclusions, local clay slip, wood fly ash. This is one of the first pieces I've finished during my time on Oileán Chléire, a large wall piece that focuses on th
A neon silicone slathered chunk of sandstone. It had fallen off a rock face before I dragged it to my workspace. I'm really happy to announce that my project here is being supported by Creative Places West Cork Islands, their funding will allow me t
Taking a cast of a rock face on Oileán Chléire A pleasing parallelogram of neon silicone with a crisp white plaster shell amongst the exposed sandstone on the northern side of Chléire I’m taking a selection of silicone mo
Collecting some seaweed and laying it out to dry I’m doing some research into the materials that I can collect from the island and how I can incorporate them into the work that I’ll make here - this stuff was collected from the beach jus
Did my first firing today in the sunshine. Roasted I didn't get the temperature that I was aiming for, but will see how things come out the other side before I decide on any adjustments to make for the kiln before doing a second firing, maybe will i
While I’m on residency here I’ll be working across the island - taking casts, making objects, and collecting materials from a few different places. But my main base, where the kiln is being built, is in this disused polytunnel by the oc
While I’m here I’ll be making and firing on the island - and firing in a much more experimental way. I guess I’m stripping back all the equipment I work with, to get a little bit closer to the work and how it’s made So in my
Just landed on Oileán Chléire I’m going to spend the next 5 months living and working here, an island Gaeltacht off West Cork This time will be filled with exploring the island, researching and playing with materials that I gath
Big boy. He’s over with @alvestonfineart in London along with a few other pieces Stoneware with Co. Galway granite inclusions, porcelain slip and Co Down granite glaze. 40 x 42 x 40cm
Buddies Stoneware with Co. Down granite inclusions, Co. Antrim basalt shino type glaze. Left - 18 × 12 x 15cm. Right - 26 x 28 x 22cm