Check out the fantastic digital exhibition on craftmanship in 18th Century British and Irish architecture by CRAFTVALUE available on their website here craftvalue.org/digital-exhibi…
A must for anyone with a scholarly or general interest in Georgian architecture & decorative arts.

Fantastic new online exhibition from CRAFTVALUE employs digital techniques, video footage and archival text to uncover historic craft practices
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Launching CRAFTVALUE’s online digital exhibition CRAFT UNCOVERED. craftvalue.org/digital-exhibi… It showcases 4 years of research into craftsmanship funded by IrishResearchCouncil, with interviews, photographs, animations & 3D models to bring craft skill out of the shadows #LoveIrishResearch

Join CRAFTVALUE’s Prof Christine Casey next Thursday 16th Nov for the next TCDArtHist research seminar in the Michaelmas series: ‘Architecture and Artifice’ #LoveIrishResearch

We have just a few tickets remaining for our Dublin Festival of History 2023 lecture this coming Tuesday, 6pm at Registry of Deeds.

Hosted by Dr. Melanie Hayes the lecture titled ‘Articles, indentures and conveyances: domestic development on the Gardiner estate, Dublin, 1720– 1760’

Photogrammetry in action: CRAFTVALUE visited Hazelwood House Co. Sligo this week to gather more material for our upcoming online exhibition of historic craft skills. Watch this space! #LoveIrishResearch

Looking forward to tomorrow’s #Wren300 conference Downing College CRAFTVALUE’s Prof Christine Casey will speak about ‘Articulating Craft Practice in the Circle of Sir Christopher Wren’.
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The Registry of Deeds will host a lecture 3 Oct at 6pm by Dr. Melanie Hayes Department of History of Art and Architecture as part of Dublin Festival of History 2023. The lecture will focus on development of the Gardiner Estate, Dublin.

Event is free but booking required …stryofDeeds2023FOHEvent.eventbrite.ie
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A fascinating day at the inaugural INStone symposium this week- excellent papers and stimulating discussion in such a beautiful setting. Thanks to all at Irish Natural Stone for convening #LoveIrishResearch #Craftmatters

Warm congrats to Prof. Christine Casey TCD Histories who has won a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for her STONE-WORK project which will explore collective achievement in the classical architecture of Ireland & Britain. #TrinityResearch#ERCAdG.

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Great day at Beningbrough - National Trust looking at the amazing cantilevered timber staircase #LoveIrishResearch #Craft #Englisharchitecture

Delighted & extremely proud to announce that CRAFTVALUE’s PI Prof Christine Casey TCD Histories Department of History of Art and Architecture has won a highly prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced grant valued at €2.5 million for a 5-year project entitled STONE-WORK #LoveIrishResearch #TrinityResearch #ERCAdG

Great day filming at the Provost’s House Trinity College Dublin with plaster conservator George O’Malley. Fascinating insights into the decorative plasterwork executed c.1760 by Dublin plasterers Patrick & John Wall, including a piece of coarse plaster, complete with hair! #LoveIrishReseach

A great day filming at Castletown House last week with stone mason Gunther Wolters and geologists Patrick Wyse Jackson & Louise Caulfield. Thanks to the team Castletown House

We’re battling a total lack of documentary evidence about the ceilings, but, but the fire has given us the chance to learn much more about who the craftspeople might have been and how they worked (3/5)

UCL Press Our curators are looking into the materials, processes and personal histories of the makers and craftspeople who made Clandon, and Sophie’s chapter reveals new insight into house’s plasterwork ceilings and the genius behind them (2/5)

We’ve been collaborating with Trinity College Dublin and other partners as part of our @ahrc grant and were delighted to be asked to contribute to the book by its authors editors Christine Casey and Melanie Hayes. Congratulations to you both! (4/5)

Details of where you can find the book can be found on the @uclpress website here, including a free access to download an e-copy for anyone interested (5/5) uclpress.co.uk/enrichingarchi…

We're cover stars! Spot us on the front of new @uclpress book Enriching Architecture, featuring a chapter from our Senior Curator Sophie Chessum on Clandon's plasterwork ceilings (1/5)

Enriching Architecture aims to retrieve & rehabilitate surface achievement as a vital element of early modern building production. Contributions by Sophie Chessum Clandon Park The Metropolitan Museum of Art Donald Insall Associates Historic Royal Palaces Dr. Melanie Hayes V&A Department of History of Art and Architecture Supported by Office of Public Works