Textile Art & Artefact Interview series
Alumni: Aisling Duffy Aoife Challis Eimear Knisella Francessca O’Brien Jennifer Slattery Lisa Shawgi Louise Gilligan Mairéad Wall Martina Shannon Muriel Beckett Nigel Cheney Orlagh O’Neill Patricia Murphy Rebecca Devaney Úna Curley
Orlagh O’Neill
Graduate of
Textile Art & Artefact
The concept is more important. That’s the beautiful thing about my course, I had freedom. It was more conceptual than just typical embroidery. Eimear Kinsella
Graduate of
Textile Art & Artefact
I’m looking at mimicry in aviation, the human mimicking different types of aviation and at birds, insects and aeroplanes. People want to fly or at least experience what it’s like to fly, or to be a bird. It’s a fascination that starts at childhood and never really leaves us.
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