Design and build your own wooden wall sculpture, guided by artist and designer Maria Atanacković at her studio in Ardgillan Castle.
This is a rare opportunity to design and build your own wooden wall sculpture. Before the workshop, you’ll receive simple instructions to plan your own composition, choosing your shapes, arrangement, and colours. Maria then digitises and laser-cuts your individual set of pieces, turning your design into ready-to-assemble components.
On the day, you’ll build and colour your piece under Maria’s guidance. You’ll leave with a finished, wall-ready sculpture, plus a hands-on understanding of how digital fabrication (CAD design, laser cutting) supports and extends craft-based making. You’ll also see her studio and get a glimpse into the process of a working artist maker.
The workshop sits at the meeting point of art and design: you do the design thinking, composition, form, colour, and Maria shows how that thinking becomes a physical object through a design-led making process. Hosted at her studio in the historic Ardgillan Castle, it’s a rare chance to see a working artist’s fabrication process up close.
Reflecting the Theme: Fáilte Future Europe
Piece by Piece shows design as something made, not just imagined. It’s a hands-on look at how digital fabrication and traditional craft work together in a contemporary Irish studio. By opening the studio to the public, it speaks directly to this year’s theme, Fáilte Future Europe: a confident, forward-facing Irish design sector, welcoming people in to see how the work actually happens.
Not Wheelchair Accessible • Suitable for 18+
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