Michael Moore

Overview

Key information

• Former Council member, International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) (CH) representing Ireland, UK, Benelux Countries. Former Honorary Treasurer of the IAC.
• Reader in Fine and Applied Arts.
• Previous: Course Director, BA Hons Ceramics, Jewellery and Silversmithing (CJS). CJS Placement Tutor. CJS Yr2 Module and Year Co-Ordinator. Creative Ecologies Research Cluster Leader.
• Current: BA Hons Product Design Yr1 Co-Ordinator. BA PD Module Co-Ordinator for Design Fundamentals and Design Culture.
• Member of the IAC.
• Peer Mentor with the Design Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCI).
• Registered Maker, DCCI
• External Examiner, Centre of Creative Arts and Media, GMIT, Galway.
• HEA Fellow.
• Recipient, National Crafts Bursary of Ireland (DCCI).
• Selected, 2018 Korean Ceramics Biennial. Co-Curator, The Shadow of Sodeisha, National Museum of Ireland, funded by the Japan Foundation and DCCI.
• Recipient of Dublin City Council Neighbourhood Award 2022-2024, to develop and deliver Engagement Project with St. Mary's Parish Community Group, Crumlin Village, Dublin
• Recipient of UK Ideas Fund Award 2023-2025, to develop and deliver engagement project with Sion Mills Community Group
• Artist in Residence, International Ceramics Research Centre, Guldegaard, Denmark. June, 2026

Current research projects

A new Ireland: Calligraphy in Stone and Currency

The stone carving and calligraphy of Michael Biggs, the Arbour Hill Memorial to the 1916 Easter Rising and calligraphic commissioning by the Central Bank of Ireland. Research began Jan 2025. Ongoing.

Reimag(in)ing the Relic

A reexamination of the pagan artifact, the Sheelagh na Gig through new 3D printing and Scanning technologies. In collaboration with Pembroke College Cambridge (Prof. Mark Wormald (lead)), Atlantic Technical University (Galway, with Mr. Gary Dempsey), Ulster (M. Moore, M. McGinn, D. McComiskey, A. Finnegan). Research Began 2022. Ongoing

• First research outcome - Reimag(in)ing the Relic

72 Hours in Dublin

A virtual tour of Dublin City through the lens of historical and contemporary sites, venues and collections with a critical and cultural focus on Ceramics. Research began 2022. Ongoing. Research will extend to Belfast in 2026/7.
Commissioned by Judith Schwartz, Professor Emeritus Dept. of Art and Art Education, New York University,

• First Research Outcome - 72 Hours in Dublin

Works in permanent collections

• National Museum of Ireland
• Ulster Museum
• Keramion, Germany
• Musee Ariana, CH
• Museum of Applied Arts Prague, CZ
• Mark Rothko Foundation, Latvia
• Fule Ceramics Museum, China
• New Taipei Museum, Taiwan
• Korean Ceramics Foundation
• Australian National University
• Gold Coast City Art Museum, Australia
• Clay Studio, Philadelphia
• Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, USA

Artist in residence

• Archie Bray Foundation and The Clay Studio USA
• Banff Centre for the Arts. Medalta Historic Clay Centre, Canada
• International Ceramics Studio, Hungary
• International Ceramics Research Centre, Denmark
• Intonation, Germany
• Panevezys Civic Art Gallery, Lithuania
• Boleslaweic Clay Factory, Poland
• New Taipei Ceramics Museum, Taiwan

Research Practice focuses on the handmade object that examines a blend of traditional and contemporary creative processes. These processes examine senses of location and place as a thematic inspiration. Recent research outcomes have examined geographic positions, creative processes exploring well-being and recovery and (written) investigations with a focus on architecture and craft.