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Thursday March 20th
Make a Mosaic led by Ursula Burke. In this workshop, participants will be guided by the artist through the steps of creating a unique and contemporary mosaic. You’ll explore techniques such as glass cutting, design creation, and setting the glass to form a finished piece. Ursula will share tips on colour and design as you work with a variety of coloured tiles.
This will be a fun and creative experience for both beginners and those with prior experience. By the end, you’ll have a beautiful mosaic to take home, along with new skills and techniques to continue exploring the art of mosaic.
All materials provided, suitable for beginners.
This is an adult art class, participants must be 18+.
Workshop is from 11.30-4.30pm with 1 hour break for lunch
About the Artist
Ursula Burke is an Irish artist who grew up in the Republic of Ireland and later lived in post-conflict Northern Ireland and uses this experience of living as a part of two cultures as a starting point to develop a dynamic practice that reflects on aesthetics and ethics of different cultures. Her practice incorporates Porcelain Sculpture, Soft Sculpture, Embroidery Sculpture and Drawing, investigating identity politics of historical and colonial eras, from Tradition to Modernity. Burke's work explores precarity in the social realm, power relations in the political arena and post-conflict histories relative to Northern Ireland. Her work creates a conceptual bridge between antiquity and the contemporary, mining art historical tropes of representation and display. Mediated through craft-based processes reconfigured in a fine art context, her approach destabilises conventions around traditional approaches to making by using unexpected juxtapositions of materials, processes and images with a desire that bends towards the surreal.
Ursula Burke’s work for Siren has been supported by an Arts Council of Ireland Project Award 2024. Siren has been developed through Burke’s ongoing collaboration with the Highlanes Gallery National Tour with partners Butler Gallery and Wexford Arts Centre.
Refunds are offered up to 72 hours in advance of the event. Please email [email protected] to cancel. A full refund will be issued if the workshop is cancelled by Butler Gallery.
Artist Talk
Ursula Burke artist talk Thursday March 20th 6.00pm-7.00pm. For booking details follow link here
