Pottery Tales

Sliabh Beagh Arts

At the Heart of Rural Creativity

The overarching aim for Sliabh Beagh Arts is the development and implementation of a series of community Arts programmes which address the social, creative, economic, cultural, environmental and good relations needs within the area. We are dedicated to providing high quality arts activity, promoting the use of creativeness as a means of enriching the lives of the rural communities involved. Our programs aim to promote the importance of our physical and personal environment, looking to the rural for inspiration and exploring the culture in AgriCULTURE.

All of our projects are innovative and we try to bring something special to the area every year.

Grafitti Bales

We took the mundane and brought some colour and brightness to the plain old stacks

Gate weaves — Gateweaves

These gate weaves were created by several different communities who worked together during dark evenings

Painting With Light

Working with several different artists the task of running through dark places at night became a creative pleasure

Mini Worlds

Seeing quality in the everyday local objects, local photographer Max Carnson brought this project to life

Storytelling Through Song

We have searched through our library of song to tell stories that are educational to hear.

Shadow puppetry 2013

Our First "Show" was a shadow puppetry event in the woods, with choirs and bands

Details: Category: Projects 2020 - 2021

A series of bitesize updates from Corranny studio resident Ceramicist

Lisa will potter about her studio and give people an insight into her practices , processes and experiments. She will be working towards the construction and use of a traditional pit firing.

Pit-fired and barrel-fired ceramics take advantage of absorbent bare clay surfaces for decorative effects. In addition to imprints from smoke, you also get fuming from the combustibles and added refined chemicals. Contemporary pit and barrel firing techniques often yield vibrant and exciting colorful designs imprinted on unglazed clay forms by dancing flames carrying fumes from specific combustible materials and chemicals.Lisa will experiment with the techniques.