Mayo glass designer winner at DCCI Future Makers Awards 2022

GLASSBLOWER and designer Laura Quinn, from Foxford, has received an Emerging Maker Exhibition Support Award at the prestigious Design & Crafts Council Ireland Future Makers Awards 2022.

Laura is passionate about encouraging people to rethink what they know about glass. Her interactive sculptural forms combine glass with flexible materials such as silicone to create sculptures that welcome human interaction and challenge the perceived restraints of glass.

The forms are often composed of hundreds of meticulously hand-made glass components combined with alternative materials and processes to create moveable, durable frameworks.

Laura was invited to create a new series of work for the Verto II exhibition taking place at the highly renowned London Glass Blowing Gallery.

Established in 2009, Future Makers is a Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) initiative which recognises talent, potential and creativity. Its aim is to support the next generation of makers, designers and craftspeople at an early stage in their careers and enable them to move from training into enterprise.

Future Makers is one of Europe's largest prize-funded award programmes, with a total prize fund of €25,000.

Award winners come from a broad range of disciplines, including ceramics, fashion design, textiles, furniture making, homewares and jewellery design.

As well as a bursary, winners also have the opportunity show their work to the public on a free stand at Gifted - The Contemporary Craft & Design Fair which take place annually in the RDS.