Maresa Edwards is a final year student studying ceramics and glass at the National College

of Art and Design in Dublin.  As a child growing up in the rather drab 60’s she remembers

how her father transformed an empty shoebox, using light and some coloured plastic sweet

wrappers into what was, to a child’s eye, a magical sight.  She attributes her love of glass –

its colour and transparency to this particular incident.  

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Following a long career in banking she decided it was time to take her hobby in “stained”

and fused glass to the next level and in 2016 enrolled in Whitehall House to study art and

sculpture.  She graduated in 2018 with a QQI level 5 certificate, as was accepted into NCAD

to study ceramics and glass under the tutelage of Dr Caroline Madden.

  

Her practice centres around explorations of found objects and things that others might

deem of little consequence.  Projects on which she has based her work include the throw

away inset of a biscuit box, and her most recent project centres on sprue sets leftover from

airfix modelling kits, which she had retrieved from the bin.

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