Join us at the Craft NI Gallery to celebrate this year’s August Craft Month Exhibition 2024: Reaction.
This exhibition opens on Thursday 1st August and will run until the 31st August. Featuring some of the best in contemporary craft, the annual August Craft Month Exhibition aims to celebrate and profile excellence in Northern Irish craft.
For the 2024 August Craft Month Exhibition, applicants were asked to respond to the theme of Reaction.
What reactions between materials made it possible for your body of work to come to life, is there a particular technique that you find fascinating? Or was your response found exploring your creative process, ‘reacting’ to events and influences in your environment? Applications were welcomed to submit responses based on how the physical nature of the work submitted and their creative process intertwined.
This year, Craft NI are joined by special guest judges Juliana Cavaliero from renowned contemporary gallery Cavaliero Finn and Samantha Rhodes who leads Bluecoat Display Centre in Liverpool, a regional craft hub and beacon for contemporary British craft, who will give a talk at the gallery before the opening at 3pm. Find out more about the talk here.
At the opening this year’s guild prizes will be awarded, for which Craft NI are particularly grateful to the former Guild of Northern Ireland Designer Makers (The Guild) who gifted a legacy gift for the development and promotion of the craft sector in Northern Ireland.
Guild Prizes
We are particularly grateful to the former Guild of Northern Ireland Designer Makers (The Guild) who have given us a legacy gift for the development and promotion of the craft sector in Northern Ireland.
We use these funds for awards for work in the annual exhibition highlighting the work of both emerging and established makers. There will be five prizes in all:
Exhibiting makers include:
Anne Butler, Caitlin Murphy, Cara Murphy, Carla Pennie McBride, Celine Traynor, Cora Cummins, Corinne Price, Eleanor Wheeler, Fang Zhao, Hugh Cummins, Irene McBride, Jackie McMaster, Janice Gilmore, Joel Smyth, Karena Ryan, Karl Harron, Kathleen Walsh, Maya Todd, Natasha Rollinson, Pennie Metcalfe, Claire and Karen Gibson from Red Earth Designs, Ruth Osborne, Sarah Cathers, Stuart Cairns and Sue Cathcart.
Featured image: Anne Butler Ceramics
Event Address: Craft NI Gallery, 115, 119 Royal Ave, Belfast BT1 1FF
Suitable For: All Ages
Accessibility Information
Wheelchair accessible The gallery is closed on Sundays
Organiser: : Craft NI
Event Email: : info@craftni.org
Event Contact Number: : 028 9032 9342
Event Website: : https://craftni.org/augustcraftmonthexhibition/
All August Craft Month events are run independently by the event organisers. For questions regarding this event please contact the event organiser directly.