The fair will take place from Friday 7th to Sunday 9thof November and Butler Gallery will be filled with handmade quality Irish craft from makers of ceramics, jewellery and glass, textiles, wood, food, mixed media and more.
This is a great opportunity to get your Christmas shopping done early whilst supporting local Irish handmade craft!
CRAFT FAIR WEEKEND OPENING TIMES
Friday 7th November 2pm - 8pm
Saturday 8th November 10am - 5pm
Sunday 9th November 11am - 5pm
Weekend Entry Fee: €5 pp. Free for children under 12. Your entry ticket helps to raise funds for Butler Gallery and includes automatic entry to a luxury craft prize draw for you.
Butler Gallery is a registered charity (CHY12922) and at all other times free to enter. Our annual Craft Fair is a fundraiser for Butler Gallery, each year we aim to raise 40% of our funding through private donations, events and sponsorship. Your entry fee and any donations will allow us to partially fund the care for our collection and building, showcase exciting temporary exhibitions, support emerging artists through our residencies and programme Learning & Public Engagement events throughout the year. We really appreciate your support, by paying this entry fee you will be entered into a raffle to win prizes from our crafters and makers. If you are feeling lucky additional raffle tickets are available to purchase on entry!
Under the name Timéa (meaning “good spirits, respect, a state of tranquility and well-being”), Agota Gilbride creates fine silver jewellery with a deeply personal meaning, designed to offer gentle support in navigating life’s challenges. Each piece is made to be more than beautiful: it can also serve as a reminder, a focus point, or even a tool within personal coping strategies. Each piece is handcrafted using unique crocheting and knitting techniques Agota has developed herself. This gives the jewellery both its distinctive brand signature and its dainty, intricate aesthetic, which is currently unique in the Irish jewellery scene.
Daily events and life issues are a strong focus and inspiration of An Gee Chan’s work. An Gee focuses on making hand thrown functional ware. Presenting their thoughts and drawings on each vessel using the colour slip inlay technique, utilising the nature of the cylindrical form of a vessel, the audience will be able to read the narratives as they turn the vessels, as well as from reading the work titles at the base of each vessel. An Gee also worked and explored their thoughts by making small hand built objects from time to time.
Anne Marie Fitzgerald makes contemporary eco recycled sterling silver and 14K gold filled jewellery from her studio in Kilkenny. Anne Marie uses semi precious gemstones and freshwater pearls in her designs. As a designer/maker she strives to create unique pieces that are both high quality and affordable. Anne Marie's jewellery is designed with longevity in mind and a modern aesthetic.
Brenda Murtagh designs and creates unique keepsake dolls. All with their own personalities, they have many of the characteristics that Brenda likes to see in a lovingly handcrafted doll. The word ‘Báibín’ is an Irish ‘pet’ name for ‘baby’ so Brenda uses it as a term to reference childhood. The dolls are made from fabrics such as felt and cotton and their ‘signature’ boots are hand-painted using acrylics and have sewn detailing. All the dolls are made with love and attention to detail and are suitable as heirloom gifts or as collectibles, ready to delight.
Goldsmith, artist and designer Catherine Conroy creates contemporary fine jewellery, made and finished by hand, using traditional techniques. Catherine finds inspiration from intensely observing the shapes, patterns and cycles that can be found in the natural world and she also draws great inspiration from the tribal artefacts of pre Columbian cultures. The tools and ornaments such as discs, arrows, whorls and feather shapes of these societies are recurring motifs in her designs. The quality of craftsmanship and design, combined with the timeless integrity of the materials Catherine employs in making her creations, ensures they will be enjoyed and treasured now and by future generations. Catherine is a member of the Made in Kilkenny bespoke craft collective.
Cheryl specialises in fused glass art and her pieces are individually designed, hand cut, made and kiln-fused in her studio in Oylegate. Cheryl was inspired to learn the art of glass fusion from her love of seeing light shining through or reflecting on coloured glass. Cheryl takes her inspiration mainly from nature and the changing seasons. ‘Siorghlas’ is irish for evergreen. As well as describing trees that keep their foliage it also depicts people or things that always seem fresh, lively or interesting and that remain popular despite their age; which is how Cheryl likes her glass art to be.
Deirdre is a contemporary artist, working predominantly in textiles, yarns and clay. Her work incorporates themes of narrative, character and nature, inspired by childhood, the sea and cultural traditions.
Wired Irish Crafts was set up in 2021 by husband-and-wife team, Tracy & Douglas Higgins. Their mission was to help eliminate the issues they encountered with traditional candles. Their focus was to provide eco-friendly candles using sustainable and reusable containers with a zero-waste policy. Wired Irish Craft's products have eliminated the common issues, such as, candle tunnelling, evaporating fragrances and significantly reduced candle sooting. This provides customers with a true candle experience with an emphasis on value for money & sustainability.
They are proud to offer eco-friendly soy candles combined with FSC certified wooden wicks, with incredible vegan fragrance oils which continue from your first burn until your last. Wired Irish Craft's studio in the Castleyard, Kilkenny is their home where they share knowledge with customers all over the world and hand pour all of the unique candles as well as refilling their customers sustainable candle vessels.
Emma Jane Champley is a jewellery designer & maker working mainly with precious metals and gemstones but also enjoys experimenting with a wide variety of other materials.
Emma Jane's fascination with fastenings means that often the closing and opening mechanisms in her pieces take centre stage, resulting in a playful dialogue between form and function. Emma Jane makes one-of-a-kind commissions as well as a very limited number of ready to wear pieces.
Emily Thompson is a textile artist who specialises in needle felting. Using locally sourced Irish wool, which is washed and dyed using natural materials, Emily meticulously layers the dyed wool to create images of the beautiful Irish landscape. She uses a needle felting tool, and the required technique, which consists of matting the woollen fibers together by repetitively pushing the fibers back and forth using the sharp barbed needle tool. Following this Emily uses both her sewing machine, and simple needle and thread to add further texture and detail to her works. Emily considers her dyed wool her ‘palette’ and felting needles her ‘paintbrush’. Emily sells at a variety of price points, from large scale statement works, to smaller more intimate works framed in embroidery hoops. She also offers a variety of stationary products, homeware, and prints featuring her work. These products include coasters, mugs, calendars, and cards.
Away with Nature's award-winning brand, recognized with a Silver Award at the Global Green Beauty Awards last week is dedicated to creating natural, artisan skincare that embraces the healing power of nature. They offer handcrafted products specifically designed to soothe and nourish, particularly for those with sensitive skin conditions.
Gillian loves to create jewellery and home decor using sustainable materials such as Irish mussel and scallop shells. I also use leather off-cuts that I source from handbag manufacturers. Beautifully patterned fabrics feature in Gemmas designs.
Iryna Ilina creates bold, playful bags inspired by desserts — each one a celebration of individuality and small moments of joy. Her work is about saying ‘yes’ to yourself, finding pleasure in the everyday, and carrying that feeling with you. These bags aren’t just accessories — they’re small, wearable reminders that beauty and confidence are always worth it.
Jodie White was first introduced to working in metals while studying at Grennan Mill Craft School in Thomastown, Kilkenny. She went on to study Jewellery & Art Metalcraft in St. John’s Central College, Cork and later interned at Fitzgerald Jewelry, Brooklyn, New York before returning to Kilkenny to begin the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland’s (DCCoI) Jewellery & Goldsmithing Course. She was one of four students chosen to display her collection, Dúlaman, in the Kilkenny Shop on Nassau Street, Dublin for the Scéal event of September 2019. After graduation, Jodie went on to work for Yvonne Ross, another Jewellery & Goldsmithing Course graduate. Jodie is also currently designer and maker of the Wild Design jewellery range for the Wild Design stores in Cork and Killarney.
Nestled in the countryside of West Waterford, near Cappoquin, Cocoa by Judit brings together over 20 years of experience as a pastry chef with a passion for creating beautifully handcrafted chocolates. Each piece is made in small batches using our own homegrown fruit and locally sourced ingredients, celebrating the rich flavours of our region. We’re proud to collaborate with local producers such as Blackwater Distillery, and makers of local honey, dairy, and cheese, to craft chocolates that truly capture the taste of our community. Winner of Gold at the Blas na hÉireann Irish Food Awards, Cocoa by Judit is all about flavour, quality, and a deep love for Irish craftsmanship — from our countryside kitchen to you.
Louisa Scott is an Irish born jeweller & adventurer who has been working in the gem & jewellery industry since 2013. She has a small home workshop on the Ards Peninsula where she designs and handmakes collection pieces and bespoke one-off commissions.
Enjoy Earth Food's 100% dark chocolate treats, crafted with care in County Wexford, Ireland. These guilt-free, nutritious Vegan snacks combine the natural goodness of dried fruits, nuts, and berries, all packed with energy-boosting flavanols. Each piece of our handmade chocolate is not only a delight to the senses but also a healthy choice, being both dairy-free and gluten-free. We commit to purity and quality by avoiding any added preservatives or sugars, with the only sweetness coming naturally from dried fruits.
Michael describes himself as a self-taught woodturner but has also taken master classes with Nikos Siragas [Crete] and Jean Francois Escolon [France]. Michael's products can be functional, decorative or just downright whimsical. Michaels work includes clocks, bowls, lamps and items that just make you smile. Michael does not adhere to the principal the woodturning should be "round and brown" and therefore much of his product is embellished with colour and gilt.
Michele seeks to capture the beauty and joy of the natural world and bring it into everyday life through the medium of ceramics. Each piece Michele creates is an intimate expression of the landscapes and organic forms that surround us, shaped in Michele’s Castleknock studio in Dublin.
With over thirty years of experience working with clay, Michele’s journey with ceramics is rooted in a deep passion for the craft. This passion was nurtured at the National College of Art and Design, where Michele first fell in love with the possibilities of clay. Since founding Michele Hannan Ceramics in 1997, Michele has been dedicated to create both functional and sculptural works that embody the vibrant spirit of the Irish landscape and coastline.
For Michele, ceramics is more than a medium—it is a celebration of nature, crafted to bring moments of joy and reflection into our everyday lives.
When first encountering the work of Muireann Ryan, natural textures, colours and forms of place flood the senses. The outdoor world with all its feminine mystique is finely observed, informs her work and is celebrated in her designs. Stepping closer, the story of her process begins to unfold before us: It is a story told from within the natural world as she offers us understanding of our environment’s mysteries. Geometric structures are revealed on the surface of the sea, textures of the land retold in marks hammered in silver and low winter light captured on matt brushed metal as landscape becomes adornment.
There is no trite answer here but an elevation of the age old interplay of art and inquiry. She submits her designs to the viewer as proposals or invitations to share in her encounters with the land and the sea. A diving enthusiast, Ryan's work is inspired from her immersion in the wild places of County Waterford, where she has made her home. Like a journeyman to these hidden places she gathers us to see the wonders she has seen. This generous act also asks us to value the perfect distillation of her experience as her work reflects the perfection of nature’s fleeting moment. These tantalising vistas and possibilities become keepsakes: jewellery, artworks and sculptures that carry all the knowledge she has unearthed about place.
Inspired by Irish nature and culture, Natalia Sliusar creates unique postcards, prints, and original artworks featuring iconic and well-known places across Ireland. Her current focus is on watercolour and ink, merging Ukrainian and Irish artistic identities.
Flowers on Four Acres is about slowing down and letting nature into your everyday spaces in a real, lasting way. Patricia Kerns is a flower farmer and dried flower specialist. She loves to create unique and unusual pieces with dried flowers which are grown here in Co. Wexford. With a deep respect for the land and our pollinators and a love of colour, texture, and movement, her dried flower pieces celebrates the raw, imperfect magic of real flowers grown slowly and sustainably.
Almost every stem is grown and selected with care, then crafted into pieces that feel both thoughtful and lasting — a small reminder of the wild outside, brought indoors. Whether it's a simple bunch or a dried flower wreath or hanging decoration, her dried flower products are made to last for months.
Yvonne Bolger Jewellery is a fine jewellery brand. All pieces are designed and made by using traditional gold and silversmithing techniques. The Brand is a one woman creative business. From my Studio in Emo, Co.Laois I design and create stylish contemporary jewellery taking inspiration from my surroundings Laois and rich Irish history. All products are made from recycled gold and sterling silver. Jewellery boxes are made from eco-friendly materials and bear the FSC Certification.
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Monday: Closed (except Bank Holidays when Sunday hours apply) Tuesday-Saturday: 10.00–17.00 Thursdays: Late Night 10.00–20.00 Sunday: 11.00–17.00 Last admission is 30 mins before closing times.
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