Welding & Metal Fabrication with Mick O’Hara

This two-day welding course is designed to introduce participants to different welding processes including Arc, MIG and TIG.

Taking place on Friday 13 & Sunday 14 June, it will focus on health and safety practice, basic welding joints and fabrication. Participants will work through set or designed projects, articulating responses from concept, design to realisation. The course is aimed for beginners and no experience is required.

Mick O’Hara is an artist and a lecturer in Fine Art at TUD. He was also the Workshop Manager of Fire Station Artists’ Studios from 2014-2021. He has spent the last two decades working as both as a technician, manager and educator across a variety of arts organisations and businesses including Bronze Art Foundry, Leitrim Sculpture Centre and National Sculpture Factory.

To book your place on this course email artadmin@firestation.ie. Places are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.

Mould Casting with Ciaran Patterson

The Mould Casting course builds on mould-making experience over two days by focusing on the process of mould making and casting objects in various materials. More advanced mould making processes will be discussed and demonstrated. There will be an opportunity to discuss and cast in different materials such as plaster, wax, jesmonite, and various resins. All materials will be provided.

Ciaran Patterson studied Model-making and Special Effects in IADT. He has worked extensively in the bronze casting profession for more than twenty years, both in Ireland and Australia. Ciaran has experience in making large moulds in a variety of materials, including silicone rubber, plaster, fibreglass, and ceramic shell. Ciaran is Building Manager at FSAS and also works at Bronze Art Fine Art Foundry, where he specialises in mould making, wax work and patination. Ciaran is a visiting Lecturer at NCAD, teaching patination techniques in the bronze casting evening class.

Please note: spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

To book a place, please email: artadmin@firestation.ie

Materials Joining Techniques with Cris Neumann

FSAS Workshop Manager Cris Neumann will host this 2-day course providing an overview of joining techniques.

This course is designed for artists and makers who work across a broad range of materials including wood, metal, ceramics, acrylics, stone, glass and more, and wish to enhance their skills at joining these. Various joining methods, an extensive range of fixing types, and adhesives will be demonstrated through hands-on practice.

To book your place, email artadmin@firestation.ie. Pleases are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Mould Making with Ciaran Patterson

The Mould Making course, led by Ciaran Patterson, is a two-day workshop introducing participants to the various stages and materials used in the mould making process including a demonstration of making a two-piece plaster mould, using silicone rubber and more advanced techniques for mould making. No experience of mould making is required. All materials will be provided.

Please note: spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. FSAS courses are for the professional development of practising visual artists.

To book a place, please email: artadmin@firestation.ie

Metal Craft with Cahir McNicholl

The Metal Craft Skills course is led by Cahir McNicholl. This intensive two-day course covers fundamental aspects of metalworking as well as some interesting disciplines to add to your skills repertoire. No previous experience is necessary.

Skills include;

Metalworking hand tools
Workshop machines
Measuring, marking & cutting
Drilling and tapping
Bending and rolling
Chisel making (Hardening & annealing)
TIG Welding

Cahir McNicholl has worked for the past 25 years as a metalwork craftsman, specializing in high quality bronze and stainless steel fabrication within the Art and Design world. His experience includes Blacksmithing, sculpture technician with Bronze Art Foundry and creating world-class sculptural lighting with Niamh Barry Design.

To book your place on this course email artadmin[at]firestation.ie. Places are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.

Welding Fabrication (Beginners)

This two-day welding course is designed to introduce participants to different welding processes including Arc, MIG and TIG. It will focus on health and safety practice, basic welding joints and fabrication. Participants will work through set or designed projects, articulating responses from concept, design to realisation. The course is aimed for beginners and no experience is required.

Mick O’Hara is an artist and a lecturer in Fine Art at TUD. He was also the Workshop Manager of Firestation Artists Studios from 2014-2021. He has spent the last two decades working as both as a technician, manager and educator across a variety of arts organisations and businesses including Bronze Art Foundry, Leitrim Sculpture Centre and National Sculpture Factory.

To book your place on this course email artadmin@firestation.ie. Places are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.