August 2010 Calendar

August 29th 3-hour drop-in pottery class for beginners €30 plus you get a €30 free voucher against a weekend or term-time course. Bring some friends or family....

September 2010 Calendar

Sunday Sept 12th 2-5pm: Drop-in Jewellery-making or pottery €30 plus you get a €30 voucher against a weekend or term-time course
Ceramics winter term (adults) Sept 14th-Nov 18th (10 weeks) €290 BRING A FRIEND FOR €150! 3 hours per week Tues/Weds eve or Weds/Thurs mornings available
Children's arts and crafts - Tues 14 for 10 weeks 3.30-5.00pm €150 BRING A FRIEND FOR €100
Sept 24-25th Glass Fusing weekend workshop with Michael Ray €200 (bring a friend for €180)

October 2010 Calendar

Oct 3rd Sunday 2-5 Drop-in jewellery-making or drop-in pottery €30
Oct 23-24th Mosaic Making with Julie Forrester €200 (bring a friend for €180)
Oct 23-24th Introduction to Ceramics €200 (bring a friend for €180)

November 2010 Calendar

Nov 5-7th Glucksman Craft Fair
Nov 20-21st Stained glass weekend with Michael Ray €200 (bring a friend for €180)
Nov 20-21st Introduction to Ceramics with Adrian Wistreich €200 (bring a friend for €180)
Nov 19-21st Ballymaloe food and craft fair
Nov 25-28th Cork City Hall Craft Fair

Gallery Events

Throughout August, we will host the Cork Craft Month ceramics and glass exhibition.

Kinsale Pottery and Arts Centre provides arts and crafts courses for adults and children, specialising in pottery, art, drawing and painting, film animation, glass fusing and stained glass, jewellery-making, bronze casting, creative writing, drama, painting and mosaic-making. We run weekly morning and evening classes, weekend breaks, summer schools and tailor-made workshops for corporate groups and private parties.

Since 2001, we have provided classes and courses to suit all levels of skill and experience ranging from the complete beginner through to exhibitor standard and the school has become the largest and most established centre of its kind in Ireland. We stock a wide selection of clays and glazes, our pottery courses cover the full range of ceramics and sculpting techniques.
Kinsale is internationally renowned for its cuisine, its cosmopolitan style and the beauty of its harbour. There are many excellent pubs and restaurants in the town, as well as a wide range of art and craft shops. What better place to learn a craft, or take a break.

Adrian Wistreich, Ceramic Artist.
After more than 20 years of corporate life in London, working as a publisher and research consultant, I left the rat-race to pursue my ambition of becoming an artist and teacher. I completed a diploma in Ceramics and Design at Hackney College of Art, London, moved to Kinsale with my family and set-up the Kinsale Pottery and Art School.

My desire to teach comes from my experience as a communicator, I have learned to find and stimulate the artist in us all, regardless of our experience of art.

I tend to be sculptural in my own work drawing on a love of form and texture through smoke-fired abstract ceramic pieces and studies of people. I have increasingly brought colour to my work developing my own stoneware glazes, which are available for students to try out. I want to break down the barriers between traditional craft skills and the apparent inaccessibility of fine art