A life's work

VISUAL, Old Dublin Rd, Carlow Tues-Sat 11am- 5.30pm, Sun 2-5pm Until Jan 8 059-9172400

Sonja Landweer has consistently transcended any label applied to her. Trained as a ceramicist in Amsterdam, she was well established and respected by the time she came to Ireland to set up a studio for the then-fledgling Kilkenny Design Workshops in the mid-1960s.

Technically daring, Landweer has always reached for unconventional materials and processes and shown little regard for conventional definitions of fine art and craft. Everything she makes – sculpture, ceramic objects, fabric design, drawing and jewellery – is art, pure and simple.

This welcome exhibition is accompanied by a new publication on the artist by Dr Nicola Gordon Bowe and other writers, including a contribution by Seamus Heaney.

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