gloine glórmhar Siobhán Quigley

Emerging Mayo based artist Siobhán Quigley in her first solo exhibition of her work as a glass artist, explores the happiness working with gloine glórmhar or glorious glass brings to her day to day life, sparking joy through the sensory aspects of the glass. Each piece in the exhibition represents a memory moment from happy memories of her childhood and early adult life that sparks that same joy for her as does working through the medium of glass brings to her now at this point in her life journey. Her aim with the pieces is to lead the viewer through those memories and perhaps spark that same, or similar, memory moment from their own life journeys, be that learning to bake with their mother, setting up a may alter with her grandmother, or getting sweets from the local shop as a treat on the way home from school - a simple memory moment that raises a smile to their face as they reminisce their own life experience - a spark of joy triggered through the medium of glorious glass.

Siobhan purposely makes most of her pieces to have a day to day practical function so that the piece sparks a joyful memory moment in the home of the user each time the piece is used so that it's not just left on a shelf to get dusty but rather leads to memories that are to be shared through the family generations using the piece, so that in time the piece itself becomes a valued family heirloom that brings with it the stories of the memories it initially sparked for the user the day they first saw or touched the piece.