A4 now has tufting equipment; and no one better to show you how to use it than our resident tufter Niamh!

Over this two day workshop (8th & 9th February) Niamh will introduce participants to the tufting processes; teaching you everything from how to use a tufting gun, designing work suitable for this medium, tufting your own rug or wall hanging, to learning how to finish your tufted work with shaping, backing and hemming.

Participants will leave the workshop with a finished tufted work and the knowledge to make more using A4 Sounds’ tufting equipment.

Day 1 (8th Feb) 4 hours:

• Designing rugs
• Tufting gun practice
• Create rugs 
• Glue backs

Day 2 (9th Feb) 3 hours: 

• Cut out rugs and glue edges
• Shape the rugs with a shearing tool
• Back and hem the rugs

Max Participants: 4

Location: Dead Room/Textile Area

Cost: 60.00*

*If you can’t afford this atm, there will be one free spot for those that need it.

Facilitator Bio

Niamh Coffey is an Irish visual artist, working through textiles, drawing and sculpture. Their work experiments and collages ideas from ecology, queer theory and Irish folklore to create imagined ecological relationships. Their first solo show will be held in Cultúrlann, Belfast in 2025. Niamh graduated from NCAD in 2016 with a honours degree in Sculpture and Expanded Practices and a highly commended thesis. Previous exhibitions in which their work has featured include: Work/Force/Field/ at A4 Sounds; Halftone at the Library Project and; Awkward Interjection at Pallas Project/Studios. In November 2022, they was selected to take part in peripheriesPOST, an experimental art school and mentorship programme that culminated in a group exhibition in August 2023. In 2022 they received an Agility Award from the Arts Council. In April 2024, they were awarded Laois County Council’s Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Bursary 2024.

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