Bindu Vessel by Gráinne Watts, who won the Ceramics Category Prize, the Ceramics Ireland Prize of €500 and a Craft & Design Council of Ireland Purchase Prize. Pic: RDS
Now is your chance to see the best of Ireland’s new artistic talent!
The RDS National Craft & Student Art Awards Exhibition is offering free entry to the public for today, tomorrow and Friday.
A celebration of the height of artistic talent in Ireland’s third-level art colleges, the Awards Exhibition features pieces from award winners, as well as a selection of competitors’ works.
The RDS National Craft Awards Exhibition includes different techniques and materials over a massive range of skills, from calligraphy to ceramics, from woodturning to silversmithing. Meanwhile, the RDS Student Art Awards Exhibition covers a range of artistic disciplines including painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking and photography.
The winner of the RDS 2014 Award of Excellence, worth €7,000 and the California Gold Medal, was Enda Scott. His Obliquity Chair, was made using traditional cabinetmaking techniques from a single piece of ash with the addition of a perspex base to give it the illusion of floating.
Enda Scott’s winning entry Obliquity Chair. Pic: RDS
The Exhibition will be taking place in the RDS Concert Hall, and is free to the public from the 30th of July to the 1st of August.
By Aimée Mac Leod
