A new digital exhibition from the CRAFTVALUE research project showcases the painstaking craft practices of the stonemasons, plasterers, joiners and carvers who constructed our beautiful 18th-century buildings.
In 1916, Charleston, a farmhouse in the East Sussex countryside, became the meeting place and melting pot for the Bloomsbury group a circle of bohemian artists including writer Virginia Woolf and painters Vanessa Bell (Woolf’s sister) and Duncan Grant, who came together to celebrate ideas and exchange radical concepts. The house, in all its unconventional and richly decorative ways, was the perfect backdrop for the artists who, in the words of poet Dorothy Parker, “lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles”.
An online marketplace showcasing the wares of talented Wicklow craftspeople has grown far beyond a simple e-commerce endeavour, bringing a community of artists, crafters and professional artisans from across Garden County closer together.