These are personal revelations telling universal stories through my beloved medium of clay.Ĭan you give our readers some background on your art? I reflect on how the rural towns again empty as young folk move from Leinster Street to Houston Street, from the People’s Park to Central Park. ‘The oldest body remembers the youngest physical encounter’. The Mantel piece, the sacred heart lamp, the once new carpet and faded wedding picture. What the anthropologist Melanie van der Hoorn called ‘buildings that speak’. In my dwellings range, the ceramic art I create, chases the ghosts that remain in the built environment when the dwellers have moved on. I’m constantly brought back to the emotions I felt while I lived there and the histories that I experienced there. Selling my childhood home had a profound effect on me. These emotions help me create my ceramic art. At certain stages in my life, my sense of place changes and in that change, comes an array of emotions. My creativity comes from “My sense of place”. To be honest its every single other minute that I’m awake I’m creating in clay. People ask where do I have time to make my art. I am unbelievably passionate about my art. So, working 9am-5pm as a teacher, then home and Mom to Will (12) and Roisin (10). In 2009-present I am employed as a ceramic teacher, teaching my favorite subject to kids who have dropped out of school early. Since leaving college I’ve done tons of jobs just to earn the money to buy Clay. I graduated with a Bachelor of Design Degree in 1999. ![]() I studied Ceramic Design in limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland. Today we’d like to introduce you to Ciara O’Keeffe.Ĭiara, please kick things off for us by telling us about yourself and your journey so far.
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