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A space for the art of the future, hosting a diverse range of artists, 16 studio spaces and 5 staff.

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Established in 1989, National Sculpture Factory (NSF) provides artists with large studio spaces, complemented with ancillary supports, technical support, training, lectures, residencies and consultancy, as well as a wide range of equipment normally not available in the average art studio. Although located in Cork, National Sculpture factory, as the name suggests, is a national body dedicated to advancing the creation and appreciation of art as a whole.

1st—5th October 2024

Lectures

Material Laboratories: Metal Fest

TEK to Tech; Ancient Bronze Casting Workshop

TEK to Tech; Ancient Bronze Casting Workshop

6th—20th July 2024

Workshops

Raku Workshop with Bernadette Tuite

22nd Sep 2023—23rd Sep 2024

Commissions

The Great Forgetfulness

Commissions

Loading Bay

25th—27th August 2023

Lectures

CLAY : holding/ transforming/ performing

Events

Boa Morte

23rd—25th June 2023

Events

SUN & SEA

15th—17th December 2022

Screenings

Conversations on a Crosstown Algorithm

Events

Kiln It – Glass Festival

Exhibitions

The Land For the People

8pm 11th November 2021

Screenings

Patrick Hough The Two Faces of Tomorrow Premiere

Exhibitions

Sara Baume so sick and tired

Digital Commission

Projects

Transient-Topographies by Leon Butler

Projects

Tamsie Ringler Iron R18

Our Artists

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Tamsie Ringler

Tamsie Ringler studied Art at the University of Wisconsin and received her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches sculpture and foundry at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and…

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Dave Grant

Dave is originally from southwest London. Born to Irish parents, he settled in Co Kilkenny twenty years ago. It was thirty-five years after leaving school that Dave picked up a pencil and paintbrush again. This…

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Danny McCarthy

Studied at the National College of Art and Design. Currently lectures in sound art and listening as part of the MA in Experimental Sound Practice Music Dept. Universtity College Cork and is visiting lecturer and…

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Eilis O’Connell RHA

Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, she studied sculpture at the Crawford School of Art, Cork and the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, USA and was subsequently granted research fellowships at The British School at Rome and P.S.I….

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Michael McDonough

Michael McDonough, Cinematographer ASC BSC, has 20 years of experience as a feature film cinematographer with such directors as David Mackenzie ( STARRED UP), Rodrigo Garcia (ALBERT NOBBS), Terence Davies (SUNSET SONG ), Stephen Frears…

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Dianne Curtin

Dianne Curtin’s journey into visual art began in 2018, during a break from her longstanding career as a freelance food stylist and food writer. Seeking to expand her creative skills and processes, she undertook TU…

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Bríd Murphy

Bríd Murphy is a visual artist currently based in Dublin. Her practice explores themes such as gender, anxiety and identity through a wide variety of media such as video, drawing & performance. She graduated with…

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Tomas Penc

Tomas Penc has successfully completed a BA Honours Degree in Fine Art at CIT Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland. During this time, he has developed a basis for an independent art practice…

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Anne Marie Deacy

Anne Marie Deacy is a sound artist and field recordist based in Co. Galway. Her focus lies in the creation of work that challenges our auditory perception, activating our senses and creating sonic dialogues that…

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Silvia Levenson

Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Silvia Levenson immigrated to Italy in 1981, during the “disappearances” of the Dirty War. She explores daily interpersonal relationships through installations and objects that state firmly what is usually…

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Alan Butler

Alan Butler’s work explores material and philosophical ideas about the functions of imagery and meaning in technologically mediated realities. His subject often ties together the cultural dogma that underpins visual languages, with algorithmic modes of…

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Lorraine Neeson

Lorraine Neeson is an Irish Artist working with Lens Based Media, Light, Sound and Installation. She creates multi-sensory environments that disrupt and disorient spatial and temporal logic. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally….

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Sarah Kelleher

Sarah Kelleher is an independent arts writer and curator based in Cork, Ireland and is completing a PhD on contemporary Irish sculpture in the History of Art department at University College Cork. Sarah is a…

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Aideen Farrell

Biography Aideen Farrell is a Dublin-based installation artist. Aideen graduated from NCAD in 2017 with a BA in Fine Art Painting and Visual Culture. Recent exhibitions include solo shows; A Weight of Windows at Pallas…

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James Turrell

“My work is more about your seeing than it is about my seeing, although it is a product of my seeing. I’m also interested in the sense of presence of space; that is space where…

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Debbie Dawson

Debbie Dawson is a Cork born visual artist working with glass and painting. She has been part of numerous group exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally including USA, China, Germany, Denmark and UK. She has had…

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Rachel Doolin

Biography Doolin graduated with a BA in Fine Art from the Crawford College of Art & Design in 2015, receiving several graduate awards including the RDS Taylor Art Prize and the National Sculpture Factory Graduate…

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Bill Balaskas

Bill Balaskas (b. 1983, Thessaloniki, Greece) is an artist, theorist and educator. His works have been widely exhibited internationally, in more than 120 galleries, museums, festivals and public spaces. In 2018, he was invited to…

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Siobhán Joyce

Siobhán Joyce (b. 1986) is an Irish artist based in the Blackwater valley of county Waterford in Ireland. She graduated from the Limerick School of Art & Design in 2008 and gained extensive experience working…

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Sophie Gough

Sophie Gough is an artist and researcher who lives and works in London. She graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2016 with a first-class honours BA in Sculpture and Combined Media and…

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Seiko Hayase

Seiko Hayase, born in Japan. She is based in Mallow, Co. Cork since 2018. She lived in Marseille, France after she graduated from Nagoya University of Arts. She is researching hidden emotions, what they are…

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Alison Lowry

Alison Lowry is a glass artist living and working from her studio, ‘Schoolhouse Glass’ in Saintfield, Co. Down in Northern Ireland. She graduated, as a mature student, in 2009 from the Ulster University with a…

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Eimear Walshe

Eimear Walshe is an artist, writer, and educator from Longford. Their practice is based on research in fiscal and sexual economies and histories, working to reconcile the aesthetics, values and tastes of their queer and…

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Eva Reddy

Eva Reddy is an emerging illustrator and glass artist who is based between Co. Dublin and Co. Clare, Ireland. Best known for her Eidolon Arca series of cast glass foxes directly referencing her connection to…

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Sarah Roseingrave

Sarah works in a range of media including glass, ceramics and printmaking. She was born in Dublin in 1978. She works part-time as a physiotherapist, and returned to full time education to complete a Level…

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Maud Cotter

Maud Cotter’s current exhibitions include a consequence of – at The Irish Arts Center, New York, 2022, and what was never ours to keep at MOCA, Jacksonville, Florida, 2022. Her recent exhibitions include, a consequence…

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Elaine Hoey

Elaine Hoey works mainly creating interactive based installations, appropriating contemporary digital art practices and aesthetics to explore the politics of digital humanity and our evolving relationship with the screen. Although her work mainly evolves around…

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Vivienne Roche

Vivienne Roche RHA was born in Cork and studied at the Crawford College of Art, now part of Munster Technological University. She subsequently studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston….

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Seoidín O’Sullivan

Seoidín O’Sullivan is an artist, arts educator, and interdisciplinary researcher. She has a MA in Fine Art Media from NCAD, and is Art Lecturer on NCAD’s MA Art in the Contemporary World. Seoidín’s projects are…

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Annemarie Reinhold

Biography Annemarie initially studied Art, Craft and Design at Grennan Mill Craft School in Co. Kilkenny. After completing her BDes (Hons) in Metalwork & Jewellery at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in…