Showcasing the work of our talented regional craft artists, with a diverse range of work on display. If you are looking for a special Christmas gift, you'll find a wealth of choice in this exhibition.

Exhibition visitors can submit a free entry in our draw to win a €50 voucher for a local small independent business. This exhibition is supported by Shop Local Tipperary.

Featuring work by:

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Muireann Carroll - Mara Designs

Mara Designs - Gifts from The Sea is a contemporary jewellery maker, specialising in hand made Titanium, Silver, Gold and Pearl jewellery inspired by the sea. Muireann works from her home close to the Nire Valley in rural County Waterford, and believes passionately in creating comfortable, light pieces of jewellery that’ll become heirlooms of the future.  To keep Ireland and the planet wild, Mara Designs packaging is recyclable, all silver and gold is reclaimed and 5% of profits go to St. Vincent de Paul. Visit Muireann’s website: https://www.mara-designs.org

CK53 Designs

Pat Murphy designs and creates a range of contemporary wooden gifts for the home.  His “CK53 Design” brand was born in the picturesque village of Kildorrery in North Co. Cork. Stylish yet practical, his work presents a modern interpretation of traditional wooden items including butter knives, chopping boards, coasters and interiors. Working with sustainable hardwoods, Pat, a self taught woodworker, strives to captures the natural colour of the more exotic woods, providing a fabulous accent to his bespoke pieces. Visit Pat’s website here: https://ck53design.ie

Sarah Farrelly

Sarah Farrelly is a painter and ceramicist based in Cork. She is agraduate of  NCAD and worked formany years as a designer and illustrator while also pursuing her passion forpainting and ceramics. Working mainly in acrylic and oil, Sarah specialises inpainting portraits and Irish landscapes. She makes one-offceramic sculptures, often of native animals. Her work is handbuilt, bisqued and meticulously painted with velvet underglaze, thenhigh fired so that it vitrifies. She finds all of the stages of sculpting inceramics fascinating and places as much importance on the form of hersculptures as she does on their decoration. See more of Sarah’s work here: https://sarahfarrellyart.com

Gillian Gubbins - GG Designs

Gillian is the designer and maker behind GG Designs, based at Gillian’s home studio near Cashel, Co Tipperary.  Having studied at art college before having her family, Gillian returned to study JewelleryDesign and Metalsmithing.  Sustainability is an important part of GG designs ethos, and Gillian spends lots of time sourcing materials at local charity shops to create her colourful, stylish and affordable jewellery.  You can visit Gillian’s website here: https://gillyggdesigns.com

Rayleen Clancy

Rayleen Clancy is avisual artist living in County Waterford. Her practice is multi-disciplinary.Materials include; video, light, costumes, cardboard, stained glass, recycled wetsuits, agricultural and domestic plastic waste.  Her research engages with a folkloric purview which encompasses phenomenology, ecology, and hybridity in global mythologies. Rayleen’s current project conceives of a mid-Atlantic realm where humans and creatures cross-pollinate causing mutually beneficial ecologies to grow in response to environmental crisis. See more here: https://www.instagram.com/rayleen.clancy

Sabina Lucas

Sabina Lucas is a Swedish bornartist based in Mallow Town. She has illustrated children's books, painted manypet commissions. During lockdown she took up weaving and has not looked back.Experimenting with colour's, yarn types, structure and size. She makescolourful wall art for home interior. You can check out more of Sabina’s work here: https://www.instagram.com/sabinalucasart

Mandy Parslow

Mandy Parslow graduated in Ceramics fromCardiff School of Art and Design in 1994. She worked as a studio potter in Co.Wexford for a number of years before setting up her studio in the Glen of Aherlow, Co. Tipperary in 1999. Mandy’s work has specialised in wood-fired salt glazed stoneware ceramics. Her current work explores a 'sense of place' through the use of found materials. In 2010 she completed an MA at the University ofLimerick and since then has combined her ceramic making with lecturing finding that each practice enriches and strengthens the other. Learn more: www.parslowpottery.com

Eileen Singleton

Eileen’s enduringinterest in clay lies in the varied qualities inherent in the material. Inexploring the material she has discovered numerous and varied ways of capturingtexture in clay. The textures are reflected images of details of the landscapewhich she sees on her daily walks. She rarely use glazes, preferring thexture of the naked clay surface. She uses slips and underglaze stains inrepeat firings to emphasize the texture of the work.   She lives and work in Tooraneena, Co.Waterford. See more of Eileen’s work here: https://www.instagram.com/eileensingleton8

Lithic Stone

Martin Lyttle is an Irish stone sculptor. Martin is particularly interested in organic shapes and forms. He works only with local stone from local quarries or found stone. He undertakes  both small and large-scale sculpture commissions as well as making highly individual and unique craft objects. He has completed several large Public Art Commissions and has been regularly selected for the Irish Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA)Annual Open Exhibition. In 2018, he was awarded the RHA ESB Moran Award for Outstanding Sculpture. His work regularly features in Richard Scott Sculpture Annual Summer Show at Ballymaloe House.  He is a member of FORM Designmadein Carlow and the 9 Stones Artists.  https://lithicworks.com