About us

Kevin Callaghan Pottery shop and studio, multi-award winner artist, designer and craftsperson.
 

Kevin graduated with Masters from The Royal College of  Art his   pottery shop and studio makes contemporary slipware   with beautiful gestural marks influenced by Asian abstract calligraphy and abstract   expressionist painting.  

Kevin makes everything from coffee cups, beakers, vases, platters, bowls, soaps, 100 percent Irish beeswax candles. Kevin started his creative journey on a two year foundation course in Derry. But this did not come easy, he actually failed honours art in high school. Years later learning that  he had very bad dyslexia. 

Kevin continued to study for ten years, with a Master craftsperson  in pottery from The Crafts Council of Ireland and  BA from The Crawford College of Art   in Cork. He has numerous awards   and residencies including The Irish Culture Centre in Paris, Jingdezhen, China, The National Sculpture    Factory in Cork.

Kevin also has a brand called The Condie, he makes sculpture and has exhibited widely in The Victoria and Albert Museum, Collect at The Saatchi Gallery, Dublin Castle, Stallen/Brand architecture firm in Glasgow, in 2021 represented Scotland in a TV series with Sky Arts called Landmark, where he made a metal sculpture 4.5 metres in 14 days.

Handmade in Donegal, Ireland

Each piece of pottery in one-off and made in small batches in the studio at The Craft Village, just outside Donegal Town.

Kevin graduated with Masters from The Royal College of Art his   pottery shop and studio  makes contemporary slipware with beautiful gestural marks influenced by Asian abstract calligraphy and abstract expressionist painting. 
Email us : kevincallaghanpottery@gmail.com