December 5, 2024
Two Donegal creatives set for Showcase 2024

Two of Donegal’s most interesting up and coming craft and design companies shall be a part of over 100 corporations featured on the 2024 Showcase occasion within the RDS, working from the 21-Twenty third January.  

Kevin Lowery and Edelle Harrigan-Edgar may have the prospect to satisfy with consumers from everywhere in the world at the Native Enterprise Showcase – a particular space at Showcase that homes a variety of Eire’s latest design expertise. 

Bundoran’s Kevin Lowery is a flexible coastal painter who attracts inspiration from a lifetime by the ocean. His artwork spans varied mediums and his choices embody authentic items, restricted and open version prints and greeting playing cards. With works in various collections, Kevin displays internationally and has collaborated with a variety of excessive avenue retailers and well-known motels. Represented by galleries worldwide, his expressive model captures Eire’s coastal magnificence.

 

Bundoran artist Kevin Lowery will exhibit at Showcase with the help of Native Enterprise Workplace Donegal.

The second enterprise attending Showcase is award successful aromatherapy enterprise, I AM SELF-CARE, based by Edelle Harrigan-Edgar an Important Oil Specialist and Licensed Aromatherapist. Edelle’s merchandise are handmade and expertly blended by herself at her dwelling in Donegal and created to help your self-care and wellbeing. In her merchandise she makes use of 100% pure, therapeutic grade important oils and the best butters and oils that are vegan and natural.

Edelle Harrigan-Edgar will exhibit her award-winning aromatherapy enterprise, I AM SELF-CARE at Showcase.

Showcase is a pinnacle occasion within the world design and crafts calendar and can open its doorways to 1000’s of consumers from internationally, together with Eire, the UK, USA, mainland Europe, Asia, and Africa, producing thousands and thousands of euros of gross sales orders through the present. 

Showcase is introduced on behalf of Design & Crafts Council Eire, with help from Enterprise Eire in selling the commerce present internationally by way of their community of workplaces abroad, and the Native Enterprise Places of work nationwide. 

With the help of Native Enterprise Workplace Donegal, different Donegal Showcase members in recent times embody knitwear designer, Edel MacBride, Condie, an Irish manufacturing design firm based by Kevin Callaghan, and Donegal designer, April Rose Murphy. Isobel Sangha from the Donegal Pure Cleaning soap Firm, the group from John Collins Designs, and Laura McDowell of Papertree additionally exhibited at Showcase in recent times.

In 2023 there have been 1000’s of nationwide and worldwide consumers in attendance on the occasion within the RDS and it’s anticipated this can improve once more in 2024.

Brenda Hegarty, Head of Enterprise at Native Enterprise Workplace Donegal, stated: “Showcase Eire supplies Donegal companies and designers with an enormous alternative and is the best place for our two Donegal companies,  Artistic Coast member Kevin Lowery and Edelle Harrigan-Edgar of I AM SELF-CARE, to share their stunning Donegal manufacturers and creativity with the world.” 

Native Enterprise Showcase is one in all a number of enterprise initiatives run by the Native Enterprise Places of work throughout the 12 months to foster entrepreneurship and assist small companies to begin and develop. Different occasions embody Native Enterprise Week, Nationwide Girls’s Enterprise Day, the Nationwide Enterprise Awards, the Scholar Enterprise Programme, and the Native Enterprise Village as a part of the Nationwide Ploughing Championships. For extra info on Native Enterprise Workplace Donegal and the helps they’ll present, please go to LocalEnterprise.ie/Donegal 

 

Two Donegal creatives set for Showcase 2024 was final modified: January sixteenth, 2024 by Rachel McLaughlin

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