Land/Marks opens at National Design & Craft Gallery, February 2023

Land/Marks opens at National Design & Craft Gallery, February 2023

Fancy Footwork Gallery gets new exhibition ready. Photo Dylan Vaughan for The Irish Times, 14th February 2023.

At the launch of LAND/MARKS, Brian Byrne, Gallery Coordinator, National Design & Craft Gallery and Suzy O Keefe, Head of Digital Communications, Design and Crafts Council Ireland were photographed with ‘Not All Streets are Paved With Gold’ a piece by Eleanor Swan.

Ceramics Ireland is delighted to present Land/Marks, the fourth in its triennial exhibition series. Continuing the ethos of celebrating the diverse range and breadth of contemporary ceramic work being created my makers of and from Ireland. Land/Marks will feature works that explore and challenge the material clay, investigating its malleability and pushing its boundaries.

This will be evident through a variety of sculptural forms, functional vessels and installation-based works. The independent expert panel of three selected 42 makers for this edition of the triennial series, which will celebrate the craftsmanship and skills of these contemporary practitioners. 

Eleanor Swan prepares her installation at Land/Marks

Eleanor Swan prepares her piece 'Not All Streets are Paved With Gold' for Land/Marks exhibition.

 

 

LAND/MARKS runs from 14th February to 20th May 2023 at the National Design & Graft Gallery, Co Kilkenny.

 

 

 

Fine Giornata (Yellow) exhibiting at Clay/Works 2022

Fine Giornata (Yellow) exhibiting at Clay/Works 2022

Fine Giornata (Yellow) selected for exhibition at Clay/Works - Ceramics Ireland Annual Exhibition at the Printworks, Dublin Castle
'Not All Streets are Paved with Gold' exhibiting at Argillá Italia, 2022

'Not All Streets are Paved with Gold' exhibiting at Argillá Italia, 2022

Postponed by the Covid-19 pandemic, Argillà Italia has been rescheduled for 2nd - 4th September 2022 and I am delighted to be exhibiting a condensed version of my sculpture 'Not All Streets are Paved with Gold' at the event. 
July 15, 2022 — Eleanor Swan
Detail of 'Not all Streets are Paved with Gold'

Irish Times: Newbridge exhibition celebrates 1922 through art and history

Irish Times, May 2022

An art exhibition by the ‘SULT’ collective in Newbridge commemorates political and social change in Kildare in 1922 and after.

Watch: 

Newbridge exhibition celebrates 1922 through art and history – The Irish Times

 

 

 

 

May 27, 2022 — Eleanor Swan
Fine Giornata

Fine Giornata

Fine Giornatatranslates to end of the day, and Argilla di Fine Giornatatranslates to clay at the end of the day. Apprentices who worked in glass or ceramic studios would often have the opportunity to make their own work with leftover materials at the end of the day and these creations were often called Fine Giornata...