New craft exhibition in Kilkenny explores the vase

Carol O’Callaghan takes a look at a new craft exhibition that explores one of our simplest household objects.

There’s hardly one among us who doesn’t possess a vase, that functional household object with the luxury of a name with two pronunciations, often to be found lurking in the back of a cupboard in most kitchens, or attired in a fur coat of dust on a high shelf.

Then again, the vase has enjoyed celebrity too, thanks to poet John Keats and his earnest verse, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’.