June 2019 

It was an honour to be invited to speak at the ten year Anniversary of the Future Maker Awards, these prestigious awards are one of the largest prize-funded award programmes in Europe.
Established in 2009, Future Makers Awards & Supports is one of many DCCoI initiatives supporting and investing in a new generation of talent in the craft and design sector. I was a previous winner in 2012 so was delighted to be part of the Ten Year Celebrations. 

Congrats to the amazing winners, Izzy O'Reilly - NCAD, Róisín Pierce, Alison Rodgers, Elaine Harrington, Helen O'Shea, Hugo Byrne, Chloe Dowds, Edel Traynor, Eilis Murphy, Sinead Curran and Sinead O'Dwyer. You can check out their Award wining work and the student winners here: https://www.futuremakers.ie/winners-2019
Thank you to the wonderful Karen Hennessy for a fantastic evening.