Supports
Art, Craft and Design practitioners and businesses within the Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon region are supported by Creative Heartlands through access to enterprise supports, digital fabrication equipment and subsidised workshops and training opportunities. The Local Enterprise Offices can provide advice on starting your own business, bringing your business online or accessing grants for e-commerce trading.
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Catalogue
The catalogue below lists the range of digital fabrication equipment that is available for use by Creative Heartlands participants for any projects that need help getting started. We can provide advice on how to use digital fabrication to expand and enhance your creative practice or enterprise. Our regular workshops bring the potential of these technologies to life and provide hands-on experience in utilising new materials and methods for your creative ideas. Our Design Project manager is there to provide 1:1 mentoring and guide you through the options and opportunities that these technologies can unlock. Contact Stuart Lawn - 087-628-6808 or email creativeheartlandsdesign@gmail.com
3D PotterbotMicro 10–Ceramic 3D Printer
BernetteB70 Deco-Digital Embroidery Machineand Software
Cricut Maker 3 and Cricut Heat Press
Elegoo Mars 3-Resin 3D Printer
Epson A4 Dye-Sublimation Printer Dye
Flashforge Creator 3 Pro-Dual Head FDM 3D Printer
Flux Beamo andFluxHexa Lasercutters
Riso MiScreen A4–Digital Screen Printing Machine
Oculus Quest 2
Mayku Formbox-Vacuum Former
Andy Parsons
Andy Parsons practice combines working in community contexts with drawing, sculpture and painting. Projects have focused on people and places, and on activities where people work together and help each other. He has worked in many different community settings, including Youth Projects, Community Care settings for older people, Mental Health Inpatients, and a community boatbuilding project in the Sligo docks.
Recent projects include ‘Conversations in Portrait’ a virtual portrait project with older people across Ireland, and a two-year residency at Sligo University Hospital for The Model Home of The Niland Collection, which culminated in a major solo exhibition at The Model in Autumn 2021 entitled ‘Patience’.
Parsons has received several significant awards, including the Pollock Krasner Foundation Award, and has exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions in London and Tokyo. See his work at http://www.andyparsonsartist.com
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3D Scanning and Printing Sculptures
Andy's most recent project was as Artist in Residence at Sligo General Hospital where he made a number of sculptures in plaster and displayed these in an online exhibition called Patience - https://patience.ie. These plaster sculptures are very intricate and also very fragile and Andy wanted create more durable copies of the pieces that could be held and touched without fear of breaking, or at least if they did break they could be reprinted again. Andy attended one of our Creative Heartlands workshops on 3D Printing and approached us to help him 3D Scan and 3D Print one of the sculptures.
As the sculpture was quite large and very detailed we decided that Photogrammetry would be the best technique to use to 3D scan the piece. Photogrammetry is the method of taking multiple hi-res photographs of an object from all sides and angles and processing them in software to create a 3D model. Andy took over 80 photographs of the sculpture and we used Photocatch software on the Mac to create the 3D Model.
We then 3D printed it in various sizes and materials including a charcoal grey resin and a marble effect filament. Andy then took these 3D prints and did further post production work on them to recolour and finesse the details. The final 3D printed models are what Andy describes as 'hand-held sculptures’. This has inspired Andy to create a new series of miniature plaster sculptures that he plans to 3D scan and 3D print himself with the newest addition to his studio workshop - a 3D printer!