Cruinníu na nÓg 2023 @ Richmond Barracks, St Michael’s Estate, Inchicore, Dublin, D08 YY05 This is a celebration of 6 months engagement with the Bulgarian Community exploring bird lore and craft. The boys and girls tried basketmaking, weaving, macrame, knitting and heard fairytales, songs and stories about Irish and Bulgarian Craft, birds and community. Got the chance […]
Sustainable Fashion Let’s teach our children to express themselves using what we already have. Let them learn about materials: what they are, where they come from, and how they are made. The future designers and innovators are made in Marlay in this summer camp. Want to know more? Reach out to Niki- she would show
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I was let in! I was just offered a Craft Artist in Residence at Richmond Barracks, Dublin.I cannot start to explain what that means to me.I never thought this would be possible for me – a carer for a special needs teen cannot do some of the daring stuff artists do. Travelling to a sexy venue
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Niki Collier and Olga Melnikova met at an IMMA event in support of Ukraine in April 2022. We clicked straight away and chatted long after the gathering finished. We went onto meeting each other on several social occasions at each other’s houses and at events. We chatted a bit about Olga’s travel from Kiev to
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Craft and Chats was a creative engagement in Richmond Barracks. It was one of the most valuable growths for me as an artist to date. I delivered a block of six Craft and Chat workshops that enabled people to share their love for creativity in different textile mediums. I was so grateful for the enormous and truly inspiring support
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This is a chance to get together, share ideas and explore a few textile crafts with like minded people. It will be a relaxed and comfortable space in time to chat over tea, coffee and biscuits, learn new craft techniques and show tell us about projects you are working on. You could get advice and
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Visual artist Niki Collier in collaboration with award winning photographer Barry Cronin and dancers Vitor Bassi, Yves Lorrhan and Favour Odusola present an installation of large wings and live performance at the red pins on the docklands. A combination of installation, performance and live streaming of work made as part of Collier’s exploration of Symbols
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An International Exhibition presenting Dr Niki Collier’s Felt Stained Glass technique through the artworks of 20 of the most interesting contemporary fibre artists was funded by Culture Ireland to travel to Vienna this autumn. “The most successful show in a decade” as described by the Pearse Museum staff, is invited to travel to Gallery Kabllo,
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The felt stained glass technique is founded on the contrasting forces in nature: from chaos to structure and from destruction to mending. The world is broken and chaos shadows all aspects of our lives. As humanity we are not new to this, but as a generation, we needed re-assurance that it will pass and that
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Chuffed to be able to announce that I was invited to speak at the International Fibre Arts Festival in Roscommon on the 1st May, 2022. At the event, I discussed my artistic practice and some of the milestones in my work. It was a positive event in which I developed a strong bond with some
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