By Creative Heartlands
The podcast currently has 6 episodes available.
In this episode I chat to the academic and designer John Walsh from the School of Creative Arts in the Technological University of Dublin. John is the lead partner in a recently launched Erasmus+ project called Craft 4.0 (https://craftproject.eu). The project aims to create training tools and a peer network for craftspeople in the areas of Digital Modelling and Digital / Additive Manufacturing. As part of this John and his team have created a free online learning platform to introduce the concepts and technologies of digital fabrication to new and established craftspeople and designers (https://plp.craftproject.eu).
I discuss the origins of the projects and John's involvement in creating over 30 training modules for the Craft 4.0 platform and how he hopes the content will be useful to any creative practitioner. We also discuss his own creative background as an academic and a designer of office furniture and his tenure as the president of the Institute of Designers Ireland.
Craft 4.0 Homepage - https://craftproject.eu
Craft 4.0 Learning Platform - https://plp.craftproject.eu
John's Design Company - MADE - https://www.made.ie
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In this episode I talk with Manorhamilton based artist, filmmaker, sculptor and model-maker, David Spence about his work and career. We discuss his latest project working with a number of Leitrim community groups to produce a scale model railway display of the old Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway that ran through Manorhamilton until its demise in the 1950s. He talks about his early career working in the Rover car factory and how those experiences working with CNC machines and digital design have shaped the work he is doing today. He also explores the foundation of the Leitrim Sculpture Centre and how incorporating community activism has influenced the projects that he undertakes.
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In this episode I talk to the current Artist in Residence at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Margaret O'Brien. Margaret works with immersive installation using a combination of sculpture, live sound, light, moving image and kinetics. Her approach is experimental and explores ideas of failure through artworks that operate within a live state of malfunction or breakdown. In the podcast we discuss the nature of the work her residency has created and the exhibition entitled 'Interference' which is on at the LSC until Thursday Nov 18th.
Margaret talks about using microcontrollers to sense surroundings, seeing electricity as a material, building sculptures from teacups, making music from biocells and harnessing light to transform metal. She embraces serendipity and pushes herself to learn 'just enough to be dangerous'. A fascinating and thought provoking conversation.
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Margaret O'Brien's Website - https://www.margaretobrien.co.uk
Leitrim Sculpture Centre - http://www.leitrimsculpturecentre.ie
On this episode I talk to Leitrim based Designer Mark McGowan about his work utilising advanced manufacturing materials and how he taught himself CNC machining and 3D printing. He talks about his experiences in going back to college in IT Sligo as a mature student and how he started a design service company after graduating to produce parts and products for a range of industries.
On the first episode of the Creative Heartlands Podcast I talk to David J Pierce from Black Hole Studio. David first started his photography career back in the late 80's by reading a weekly photography magazine 'You and Your Camera', which his mother had subscribed to. A comprehensive guide of eight volumes, each with 12 magazines gave him an insight to photography before he ever had a camera. That all changed when he got an Olympus OM-10 film camera and a visit to Minneapolis, USA where he received an inspirational lesson from Brian Pobuda looking through the book 'Photography as a Fine Art'. It was then he understood the full scope of the photographic image.
We talk about his early career getting started as a Photographer and Filmmaker and how he has slowly introduced more digital design elements into his work. He talks about his latest project, a study on isolation that was inspired by the pandemic lockdowns and features elements of film, animation and digital modelling within a Black & White German Expressionism framework.
Black Hole Studio - www.blackholestudio.ie
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Trailer for the new Creative Heartlands Podcast Series that is starting soon.
Each episode will we be interviewing Artists, Designers, Filmmakers, and Craftspeople about their work and how they use digital technology to enhance, improve and communicate their work.
Creative Heartlands is a collaborative project between the Arts Offices and Enterprise Offices of counties Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon. The project is funded by Enterprise Ireland and led by the Leitrim Design House.
https://leitrimdesignhouse.ie
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https://creativeframe.eu
The podcast currently has 6 episodes available.