Ceramics Residencies in Ireland

Cill Rialaig Project

Ballinskelligs, Ireland

Cill Rialaig Project is a contemporary arts retreat founded in 1991 by Noelle Campbell-Sharp, located in a restored pre-famine village (c.1790) on a cliff overlooking the Atlantic in County Kerry, Ireland. It offers free residencies to visual artists, writers, poets, composers, and other creative professionals from around the world, providing isolated living-work spaces without television, telephones, or internet to enable artistic focus and reflection.

Clay City

Dublin, Ireland

Clay City is a residency program in Dublin, Ireland, run by Throwing Shapes in partnership with Staycity, offering one 12-month residency for recent ceramic graduates and three 3-month residencies for established professional ceramic artists and potters. It provides free studio access at Throwing Shapes' facilities, fully subsidized accommodation in central Dublin apartments, mentorship, professional development, teaching opportunities, and a solo exhibition at the end. The program aims to foster ceramics practice, community engagement, and position Dublin as a ceramics hub, with to Irish and international artists legally able to live and work in Ireland.

Name of Residency: Strata Ceramics ResidencyThis ceramics focused space gives makers the opportunity to take time to develop new work, in a beautiful rural setting. The light filled studio space can accommodate 6 makers and has been designed for a flexible experience to facilitate makers needs, with movable work benches, a variety of wheels, extruder, slab roller and a range of other studio equipment. There is a space for mould making. The kiln room is equipped with several electric kilns. We ar

Throwing Shapes

Dublin, Ireland

Throwing Shapes' Clay City residency program in Dublin offers a 12-month graduate residency for early-career ceramicists with full studio access, mentorship, and free accommodation in a subsidised apartment, alongside three 3-month professional residencies for established artists to complete projects or research. It aims to support ceramics practice, foster community engagement, and position Dublin as a ceramics hub, welcoming applicants from Ireland and internationally. Residents benefit from studio facilities, teaching opportunities, a solo exhibition, and member events, though materials and firing costs are not covered.

Watershed Studios

Galway, Ireland

Watershed Studios is an artist residency program located in Galway, Ireland, offering artists of all career stages time, space, and community to encourage growth and experimentation. The program provides studio space converted from a historic fish factory and farm shed, along with newly refurbished cottage accommodation with views of the River Corrib, accommodating six artists at a time.