Susan Rogers visits woodturner Liam Flynn at his County Limerick studio
One of the world’s most innovative and creative woodturners, Liam Flynn has been making vessels for 30 years. Over the course of that time his work has become synonymous with elegance and refinement. A native of Abbeyfeale, Co Limerick, Liam Flynn continues to work in the workshop that was once his grandfather’s. A boyhood friend introduced him to woodturning thereby setting him on a path that has seen him become one of the most important woodturners of his generation. His track record is impressive, with work in permanent collections nationally and internationally, including the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, the Department of Foreign Affairs Collection, Dublin, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in the U.K.
William Laffan previews the exhibition ‘Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design 1690-1840′ which opens at the Art Institute of Chicago in March
In his design for the new Coast Guard Station in Doolin, County Clare, Dominic Stevens has discovered his architecture of the Burren; an architecture of abstract rocks, describing the material nature of place, writes Steve Larkin
