Creative Textiles Level 6 at CSN - "a cut above"

The 2009-2010 year saw amazing work produced in the areas of fashion, jewellery, interior design and surface manipulation in Creative Textiles.

Congratulations are due to student, Laura Vaughan, who completed an internship with designer Liz Nilson, in Dublin.

We welcome new students to the course this autumn, including CSN students from ACCESS with Design and Art, Craft and Design. Returning to CSN, to complete the City and Guilds Higher Diploma in Professional Arts, is Textiles student, Carmel Creaner.

We would like to wish past students the best of luck in their further studies in Crawford College of Art and Design and Sherkin Island/DIT Degree in Art.

Above photographs include (L) finished work by Hilda de Lacey (2009-2010) and (R) Luisa Cardoso, (2009-2010).

For further information on the course, contact: j.hickson@csn.ie (021) 4961020

NEWS Update from ACCESS with Design 2010-2011

This year we are launching a new and 'approved' Access with Design course. Learners will now complete our programme over five mornings per week in one full year. Students will further experience a range of exciting design-based techniques and projects. We will offer more time in core subjects, such as drawing and colour work, in a supported learning environment. Please refer to our CSN website main page for details: Access with Design; Department of Art and Design.

We are pleased to see that applications are high this year. Classes will begin on September 20th 2010.

Watch for us at Cork Art Trail's "road rolling" project (in November 2010) when printmaking students will collaborate with Cork Printmakers on a "large scale lino project".

We will also be 'out and about' in the city, documenting our 'impressions' of urban life, collecting material and imagery for our design projects.

A big congratulations to all this year's outgoing design students. Results were fantastic. Best of luck to those who are continuing in artistic studies at Crawford College of Art and Design and returning to CSN in Level 6 Textiles and Ceramics.



For further information, contact: Jenny Monks. Course Director, j.monks@csn.ie

Well done textile students!

Well done to last years students who had a wonderful show in May. The students are now invited to exhibit their work in the College of Music gallery space. The Textile Exhibition titled ‘The Long Note’ will open in November.

Congratulations to textile graduate Anne Kiely who won first prize (Print) in the RDS Craft Competition. Anne’s bespoke chairs and soft furnishings can be viewed on this blog. The winners of the competition will in the Sirius Art Gallery in November. Congratulations also

to graduate Carmel Creaner who was elected to the board of the Craft Council of Ireland.

Experimental Projects - Textile Student, Anne Kiely's Clingfilm Dress and Stillettoes - CUES impact piece

Experimental project work varies from course to course in the Department of Art and Design. Anne Kiely's cling film dress, with embedded hydrangea leaves and recyclable materials, including the skirt. The dress provided a point of interest as it appeared to be floating and set off other pieces of work, including textile panel by Carmel Creaner. The colour of Carmel's piece carried a wall that was a perfect fit for its length and width.

CSN offers a course for everyone's talents. Working with members of all courses is an advantage for students of Arts Administration students who write about the arts, photograph art work and people, practice customer service and work with arts and the community.

Creative Textiles

Creative Textiles provides training in a diverse range of skills on paper and in studio based work. Students who participate in this course will learn how to develop ideas from the planning stage through to the final product in a variety of different subjects and techniques. Personal projects allow for the cultivation of an individual style in the resulting portfolio and artifacts produced.

The course is a multi-disciplined area of study and covers a range of skills such as Printed Textiles, Fabric Manipulation and Stitch, Drawing, and Colour and Dyes in the creation of seemingly effortless textiles suitable for fashion, accessories, interiors, and fine art.