Orla makes unique slipcast ceramics for the home in Clonakilty, Cork.  She strives to provide high quality products that bring joy to the owner’s home and to keep her business sustainable by having as little waste as possible and a low environmental impact.

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The original inspiration for her work comes from finding ‘rubbish’ washed up on the beaches where she grew up in East Cork.  She walks along the beach, flotsam and jetsam is tangled among the seaweed. Its bright synthetic man-made colours sing out. On closer scrutiny these objects have a gorgeous range of textures where the sea has intervened, seams and edges have softened, yet there is still evidence of the making process, of the machine.

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