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This year more than ever people are being asked to shop local and support local businesses but here in Louth we can go one step further and buy locally made as well. The county has a host of local artists and craftspeople making a wide range of beautiful work which would make ideal Christmas gifts, including paintings, jewellery, ceramics, prints, textiles, candles, and fashion. Many of them are members of Louth Craftmark who, with great imagine, moved their annual Winter Fair online. This saw makers Cushla Of Gullion, Emma's So Naturals, Garrett Mallon Jewellery, King's Forge Glass, Liz Chri...

Art As Exchange (AAEX), a collective of almost 40 local artists supported by Creative Spark, continued their programme of developing creative collaborations with other community groups this year with a project engaging young mothers and toddlers at the Craobh Rua community centre. Over several weeks, artists Jennifer Slater, Úna Curley, Susan Farrelly and Caoimhe O'Dwyer guided the mothers and their children in art-making activities across a range of disciplines including print, performance, textiles, photography, sound and music. 'The original ideawas broadly inspired by the assemblage work...