Jerpoint Blog
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Jerpoint Glass Annual Kilkenny Arts Festival Exhibition
Preparations are underway for our, not-to-be-missed, annual arts festival exhibition! This year we are so excited to be featuring the work of acclaimed artist and wood turner, Liam Flynn alongside emerging photographer, Nicolas Picchi.
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Jerpoint Glass chosen to exhibit in 'Create' at Brown Thomas
We are delighted that Jerpoint Glass has been selected amongst a limited number of craftspeople to showcase our pieces at the exclusive Create at Brown Thomas 2015 exhibitions. A limited range of specially-crafted pieces will be available for just six weeks at Brown Thomas stores in Cork, Limerick and Dublin. Jerpoint is one of only 5 craft makers to be rolled out to the Limerick and Cork stores
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'Blow a Glass Bubble' Workshop for Medieval Week
Did you ever want to try glassblowing? Now we are inviting you to come and have a go like our US visitor Kirsten Madesen, aged 15 above! We are set to host an exclusive glassblowing workshop for Ireland's Medieval Week!
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Glassblowing Medieval Style!
We are very excited to be hosting a series of free ‘drop-in’ Medieval Glassblowing Demonstrations and our ‘Blow a Glass Bubble’ workshops to celebrate Ireland’s Medieval Week from 17th to 24th April at our Stoneyford based glassblowing studio and gallery.
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Medieval Vs Modern Glass Blowing
As Ireland’s only Medieval Week Celebration approaches and Kilkenny is set to roll back the years to the middle ages, here at Jerpoint we have been pondering how much has changes in glassblowing since the middle ages?