Blowing glass in your back bedroom doesn’t sound like a recipe for success, but thankfully, Laura Quinn knows what she’s doing. The glass artist is one of Ireland’s most exciting exports and is passionate about encouraging us to rethink what we know about glass, and instead learn how to care, use and reuse the pieces so that they can last a lifetime, or several. Quinn makes beautiful glass objects by hand, with the assistance of new digital technologies to create products which are repairable, recyclable and more sustainable. In a traditionally male-dominated space, Quinn is amongst a new generation of…

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