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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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Peadar Lamb

Biography Peadar Lamb is a Cork based multi-disciplinary artist who works mainly in stained glass. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and has completed numerous public art commissions. He has work in national and international…

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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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Lynn O’Donovan

Lynn is a Cork based Artist who works from her home studio. She graduated from Crawford College of Art and Design in 2023 with a BA (hons) in Contemporary Applied Art (ceramics, glass,textile) Her current…

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Matthew Szösz

Matthew Szösz is a practicing artist and educator known primarily for his inventive processes and innovative use of glass to explore the intersection of material, aesthetics, and the poetic. Since receiving his MFA(Glass) from Rhode…

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Myfanwy Frost-Jones

Myfanwy Frost-Jones is an artist and oyster farmer, a gardener and goat-keeper, from the West of Ireland. A recent graduate from The Crawford College of Art, her moving image work has already won a number…

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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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Catherine Hehir

Biography Catherine is an artist whose practice has included the development of several forms of collaborative endeavour, such as a series of large scale durational and ephemeral projects under Hehir & Noonan collaborations, which was…

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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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Áine Ryan

Biography Based in West Waterford, my visual art practice focuses on the interchange between notions of belonging, place, identity and memory. Working with various materials, specifically cast glass, I turn to my farming background and…

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Sophie Longwill

Sophie Longwill graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2016. In 2021 her work was selected for the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland’s Portfolio 2021-2022, granted an Agility Award by…

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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…

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Rachel Daly

Biography Rachel Daly is a visual artist based in Cork City. Her current work explores discomfort and artificiality within intimate, domestic spaces. Upon graduating with a first-class honours in Fine Art from Crawford College of…

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Leon Butler

Leon Butler is an artist and designer working at the intersection of art and technology. Leon´s work has been exhibited internationally and has been recognised by The Type Directors Club, European Media Arts Platform, 100…

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Tanya de Paor

Biography Tanya de Paor is a visual artist, researcher and educator. She is currently a doctoral candidate in studio practice-based art at Burren College of Art and NUI Galway. Her research focus is on artistic…

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Nigel Rolfe

Rolfe moved to Ireland in 1974, working at the Project Arts Centre. In the late 1970s, Rolfe became active in performance art. According to the Irish Museum of Modern Art, his work “encompasses installation, drawing,…

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James Luke Hayes

Biography James L Hayes contemporary artist based in Cork, he has a multi-disciplinary art practice, making sculptures, installations, cast iron performance works and films, as well as developing large scale sculptural commissions and public art…

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Trevor Healy

Trevor Healy graduated from SETU Waterford with a degree in Visual Art in 2022. He was awarded a three month residency at the National Sculpture Factory for his degree show exhibition.

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Ailbhe Wakefield Drohan

Ailbhe is an artist from Dublin based in Limerick city. She recently graduated from the Limerick School of Art and Design with first class honours in her degree. Ailbhe is now working for EVA International:…

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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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Corban Walker

Biography Corban Walker (b. 1967, Dublin, Ireland) gained recognition for his installations, sculptures, and drawings that relate to perceptions of scale and architectural constructs. His local, cultural, and specific philosophies of scale are fundamental to…

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Catarina Araújo

Catarina Araújo is a Portuguese visual artist based in Cork. She holds a MA in Art and Process from MTU Crawford College of Art and Design. Currently, Catarina is one of the four artists in…

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Patrick Hough

Patrick Hough is an Irish artist living and working in London. Incorporating moving image, photography and installation, Hough’s work excavates the increasingly entangled nature of archeological, geological and ecological worlds. Patrick received a BA in…

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James Scanlon

Scanlon works in a variety of media. He worked with stained glass for a number of years and established a stained glass studio in 1982. He has received critical acclaim for his revival of the…

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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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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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Evgeniya Martirosyan

Evgeniya Martirosyan is a Cork based artist, current member of Cork Artist Collective. Martirosyan graduated from the Crawford College of Art and Design in 2016, receiving a number of awards, including residencies at Sample-Studios and…

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Linda Quinlan

Linda Quinlan is a graduate of the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NCAD, Dublin and Crawford College, Cork. Recent exhibitions include a solo show with Berlin Opticians Gallery, Dublin and a group show at Scoil Lorcain,…

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Padraic Barrett

Pádraic Barrett is a contemporary Irish artist working in a variety of media including performance, film and installation. Barrett was born in Kerry and graduated from the MA in Art & Process at Crawford College…

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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…