STUDIOpractice aims to bring together design practices and studio makers and to challenge the concepts, creativity and skills of their practices by focusing on new processes and techniques in the studio and by exposing them to new and alternative approaches to design and making.

This should result in work that represents a physical manifestation of the current debate on the boundaries and common ground between art, design and craft.

MATERIALpoetry is the first in a series of exhibitions to arise from this initiative, presenting work by sixteen of Ireland‘s leading studio makers alongside collaborative work between O’Donnell+Tuomey Architects, Design Partners and W/Workshop, and a small anthology of contemporary Irish poems interspersed with these objects.