Exhibition in Japan - 2025

I am so happy to share that my work will be included in a forthcoming celebration of making between Ireland and Japan...

RINN: An Ireland/Japan dialogue on making, place and time

Curated by Joseph Walsh and Wahei Aoyama

Ireland House, Tokyo, Japan

Exhibition: 17th April – 20th June 2025, after which it will travel to The Glucksman, Cork, Ireland.

Irish Exhibitors ; Sara Flynn, Joe Hogan, Frances Lambe, Deirdre McLoughlin, Sean Scully collaboration with Mourne Textiles, Joseph Walsh

Japanese Exhibitors ; Sueharu Fukami, Shihoko Fukumoto, Eiko Kishi, Satoru Ozaki, Kan Yasuda, Osamu Yokoyama

Context & Collaboration - Collaborative Exhibition with Joseph Walsh - Paris 2024

It is a huge pleasure to share the joint exhibition that is currently on in Paris...a beautiful collaboration between Joseph Walsh and I. 12 Brackets made of Ash, teamed with 12 Vessels of Porcelain made specifically to sit together; and a landscape of vessels on an Enignum Ash Table. The exhibition sits beautifully in the space. It runs until October 26th.

Click here to be directed to the Joseph Walsh Studio website for more information ...

Here is more information about the exhibition and surrounding events, location, opening times etc.

Image by Alice Casenave

Solo Exhibition - London 2024

In September 2024 I presented a new body of work in a solo exhibition with https://ehc.art/exhibitions/sara-flynn-2024/works

We showed 25 pieces including an installation of 14 pieces.

Panels:

• Member of the Experts Panel - Loewe Craft Prize - 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025
• Member of the Golden Fleece Judging Panel - 2023, 2024 https://www.goldenfleeceaward.com
• Member of the Judging Panel - RDS Craft Awards - 2018, 2019, 2020

'On Foot' Autumn 2023 - London Group Exhibition, Curated by Jonathan Anderson. Offer Waterman Gallery.

On Foot, curated by Jonathan Anderson, broiught contemporary artists into dialogue with iconic works of modern British art. Anderson’s own fashion designs for JW Anderson and LOEWE inhabit the spaces as viewers and bystanders to the works. Pieces from recent seasons have been chosen for the way in which they transform the body and give it sculptural potential. The exhibition unfolds like a walk through London, embracing the stark contrasts and unlikely juxtapositions that even a short journey through the city offers up.

Exhibiting Artists: Igshaan Adams, Frank Auerbach, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Hans Coper, Shawanda Corbett, Sara Flynn, Lucian Freud, Anthea Hamilton, Barbara Hepworth, Akiko Hirai, David Hockney, Leon Kossoff, Stanislava Kovalcikova, Florian Krewer, Doron Langberg, Jennifer Lee, L. S. Lowry, Henry Moore, Cedric Morris, Dame Magdalene Odundo, Walter Sickert, William Turnbull and Christopher Wood.

On Foot will be free and open to the public at 17 St George Street from 18 September until 28 October 2023.

Check out the Offer Waterman website here....

Solo Exhibition, France, 2023

My second French solo exhibition was held at Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, Toucy, France in 2023.

The exhibition showed 30 x new pieces including new forms and surfaces.

Installation in the Permanent Collection of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum of Wales

2023. With many, many thanks to Erskine Hall & Coe and The Derek Williams Trust we can announce that this installation of mine has been acquired by the Derek Williams Trust, and in future will go on display at the Amguedddfa Cymru - National Museum of Wales.
Image courtesy of Erskine Hall & Coe ; photographer Stuart Burford

2020 Exhibition - Making and Momentum - In Conversation with Eileen Gray at E.1027

Shown at Wexford County Council

Read Wallpaper magazine's interview with Richard Malone here...

Making and Momentum : In Conversation with Eileen Gray, at E.1027

@makingandmomentum
curated by Richard Malone
An exhibition to celebrate the completed refurbishment of Gray's modernist masterpiece, after 7 years of refurbishment.

London Exhibition Review November 2020

I am really grateful to Emma Crichton Miller for her review in The Design Edit magazine of my most recent London exhibition in Erskine Hall & Coe. It's been so difficult for people to travel to see work 'in the flesh', this take on the pots is all the more appreciated.

In October 2019 I undertook a month-long residency in Sasama, Japan.

Sasama is a beautiful place in rural Japan. The ethos behind the residency is that the participants experience real life in a rural village and I can vouch for the fact that it was a hugely enriching experience.

The residency was followed by my participation in the International Ceramic Festival which takes place every 2 years...details via the link below..

https://www.icaf-sasama.com/artist2019

Ulster Museum - Acquisition for their Permanent Collection

The Ulster Museum in Belfast have added these 2 pieces to their permanent collection. The works will be on display in the Museum later in 2019. Purchased through and with the support of Erskine Hall & Coe in London.

Collections:

• Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum of Wales, Purchase funded by the Derek Williams Trust
• The permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Purchase funded by Christopher M. Gorman-Evans
• The permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Purchase funded by Christopher M. Gorman-Evans
• The Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland
• The National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks, purchased through the Contemporary Collection of Design & Craft, a joint initiative of The National Museum of Ireland and Design & Crafts Council of Ireland
• Loewe
• The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada
• The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, U.K.
• The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
• The Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth House, Chatsworth, U.K.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, U.S.A. (Gift of Michael and Tamara Root)
• Shanghai Municipal People's Government, China
• Office of Public Works, Farmleigh House, Dublin, Ireland
• National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
• Columbus State University, Georgia, U.S.A.
• Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
• Irish Department of Foreign Affairs - Foreign Embassies Collection - Canberra, Australia (2005); Madrid, Spain and The Hague, The Netherlands (2007); Beijing, China (2013)

Awards:

• Golden Fleece Award - Merit - 2019
• Loewe Craft Prize Finalist 2017
• Golden Fleece Award - Merit - 2016
• Peter Brennan Pioneering Potter Award, Ceramics Ireland, 2010
• C.C.O.I. Travel Bursary Award 2006, 2007
• Design & Crafts Council of Ireland (D.C.C.O.I). Research and Development Award 2005

International Residencies:

It is my pleasure to have been awarded the opportunity to work on three International residencies...

• 2019 - Koryu Centre Sasama, Japan. A month-long residency in rural Japan. Generously supported by The Golden Fleece Award.
• 2013 - Liverpool (U.K.), undertaking a 6-week residency at Hope University in partnership with the Bluecoat Display Centre and supported by The Crafts Council of Ireland.
• 2011 - I was one of 13 Irish Makers selected to participate in a month-long residency in FULE International Ceramic Art Museums, Fuping, China