This festival is the third iteration of NSF’s Material Laboratory Programme; an annual programmatic strand that focuses on specific material researches and medium specific practices through an intensified series of masterclasses, workshops, lectures and discussions…
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A workshop with Sven Anderson, Jennie Guy & Lou-Atessa Marcellin 24th October | 10AM – 4:30 | online workshop | €150
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CLAY holding/transforming/performing is a season of clay at the National Sculpture Factory. It celebrates clay as a fundamental and complex material. A key tenet of this clay season is to be witness to experts in…
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In this lecture, Patrick will discuss two film commissions he’s worked on over the last few years: And If In A Thousand Years (2017), commissioned for the 2017 Jerwood / FVU Awards: Neither One Thing…
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Leon will be talking about his work Emperor 101 which premiered at Dublin Theatre Festival 2021 which mixes theatre performance with a live Virtual Reality (VR) experience; he will discuss Shelter and Place created in collaboration…
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In this lecture, Eimear will speak on the important role commissioning has played in their practice. Walshe will discuss how institutions can provide effective creative support throughout the commissioning process, speaking about their experiences of…
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In this short presentation, I would like to: air questions within my practice, on the nature and how of things find new coherences in a field of change speak to the continuity of practice, of…
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Today, origami is being used to research a range of new applications that includes micro-medical devices, robotics, deployable structures, space exploration and even spiral galaxy formation in cosmology. This talk will discuss some of the…
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Fiona Kelly’s material practice manifests itself through sculpture, print and text based media. Her work often draws on the natural to pose questions on disposability and transience within contemporary land use. In this presentation a…
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James L Hayes will discuss his current sculptural practice and outline some of the conceptual and theoretical supports that underpin some of his recent works. This will be particularly in relation to his ongoing research…
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