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  • 30 May, 2023

SUN & SEA

Cork Midsummer Festival, The Everyman, National Sculpture Factory supported by Cork City Council present Sun & Sea   An award-winning opera performance watched from above, performed on an indoor beach at Cork’s City Hall, running…

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  • 9 Mar, 2023

Kiln It – Glass Festival

Kiln It – Glass Festival is the first in a series of Material Laboratories that happen annually on the Factory floor at the NSF.   Material Laboratories is our new programmatic strand that focuses on…

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  • 5 Jan, 2023

Conversations on a Crosstown Algorithm

The National Sculpture Factory in association with Cork Midsummer Festival are delighted to present the premiere of Doireann O’Malley’s new work Conversations on a Crosstown Algorithm, live in the Granary Theatre for 3 nights only…

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  • 18 Oct, 2022

Sara Baume so sick and tired

so sick and tired is a new artwork by artist and writer Sara Baume specifically commissioned by the National Sculpture Factory for the Cork Midsummer Festival’s Midsummer Moments reflecting on the times and context that…

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  • 18 Oct, 2022

The Land For the People

National Sculpture Factory commissioned Eimear Walshe to create a new neon public artwork, The Land for the People, presented as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2021. The Land for the People comprises a temporary neon sculpture which…

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  • 18 Oct, 2022

Toyotaya

Toyotaya was a site specific or a material specific commission intertwined with the Cork Opera House’s former TOYOTA roof signs. Originally hung in the 1980’s as part of a partnership deal between motor corporation Toyota and…

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  • 18 Oct, 2022

The Boundaries Between Us Endure

The Boundaries Between Us Endure takes you amongst sound and sculptures on the factory floor to a soundtrack of electronic music and live harp, as the space takes on new dimensions with projected visuals and…

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