Casting call: Artist invites former Youghal Carpets workers to help celebrate Cork company
Artist Katie Nolan (right) at Greywood Arts in Killeagh with ex-workers from Youghal Carpets and their families.
An artist needs a hand — well, 42 hands to be exact — to help commemorate the legacy of one of Ireland’s great textile firms.
Visual artist Katie Nolan has invited former workers of Youghal Carpets in Cork to attend a special hand-casting event on Saturday as part of a novel multi-disciplinary arts project which aims to remember and record the legacy of the former carpets company which closed 22 years ago with the loss of hundreds of jobs.
