Exhibition of Contemporary Craft for the UK City of Culture 2013 Derry~Londonderry. The exhibition showcases the work of 37 eminent designer-makers who have responded to the curator’s request for an object of their making which reflects their understanding of culture; of how material objects can carry a community’s shared history and reflect a cultural perspective.

Catalogue, featuring essays from a number of leading academics - including Dr Audrey Whitty, Dr Jessica Hemmings, Dr Josseph McBrinn and Professor Declan McGonagle - which aim to contextualise this exceptional exhibition and convey the importance of Craft to us all.

Essay by Andrea Alassi: Brigitta Váradi: Marking Memory,

The act of inscription—more than the content of the inscribed markings—is paramount. In visual and material fidelity, each artwork represents a person, one whose occupation and knowledge, their ownership and memory, leave a bold mark on the canvas. These graphic representations—and theyare both mimetic representations and abstractions—could be equally at home on a damp Irish hillside or in the modern art gallery. In the shared gestures of the farmer and the artist, two lineages come together.

Locis was a two-year, three-country artist in residence program. Ireland: Leitrim County Council Arts Office, Poland: Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Torun, Sweden, Residence Botkyrka.

The book includes documentation of the program, the exhibitions, and essays.

Et si on s’était trompé? / What If We Got It Wrong? is a group exhibition of Irish or Irish-based artists engaged in issues of climate change produced by the Centre Culturel Irlandais in the lead up to the international COP21 Climate Conference in Paris in December 2015.

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication, produced by Centre Culturel Irlandais, with essays by Frank McDonald, Darragh McKeon and Katherine Waugh.

Essay by curator, John Yau

‘Each sculpture embodies a different vision of the world, of the past, present, and future. Some of the sculptures are whimsical: others touch on the tragic. The sculptors present a span of human emotions as wide as the range of their materials, shaped by the mind as much as by the hand.’

In 1937, a group of sculptors got together and founded the Sculptors Guild in order to promote interest in contemporary sculpture.

The Landscape of Aesthetics and Design Seminar (Seminar) came together as a joint venture between the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), NCAD Ceramics, Glass and Metal Department (CGM Dept), the Crafts Council of Ireland (CCoI), the Fulbright Commission of Ireland (Fulbright), and Mason Hayes and Curran Solicitors (MH&C).

500 Felt Objects: Creative Explorations of a Remarkable Material (500 Series) Paperback – September 6, 2011. Juror Susan Brown lives in New York and is the associate curator of textiles at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.