We are delighted announce that our featured ‘In the Window’ artists for the 2026 Liverpool Irish Festival is ceramicist Adam Frew & jeweller Maureen Lynch.
Each October we partner with the Festival. This year, they have brought together two of Ireland’s most accomplished makers.
Adam Frew (ceramicist) works exclusively in porcelain, throwing clean, simple forms on the potter’s wheel. He combines skills at the wheel with an eye for abstraction and mark making — crayons, splashes, drips, masked out and sponged back areas — driven by a love of immediacy and gestural energy. Based in County Derry, his work carries the quiet confidence of a maker who has spent two decades refining something that looks effortless and is anything but.
Maureen Lynch’s jewellery is renowned for its sophisticated simplicity, where detail is considered and restrained. Her simple forms are softened with curves and natural lines, making each piece eminently wearable; a subtle statement of elegance. Without the addition of surface detail, light glints from polished surfaces. Based in Dún Laoghaire, she graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, before undertaking further studies in silversmithing in Copenhagen and stone setting in Vancouver
Together in the window, these two makers — one working in clay, one in silver — share a commitment to form, restraint and the beauty of things made by hand.
Liverpool Irish Festival brings Liverpool and Ireland closer together using arts and culture. It is this use of arts and culture as an instrument for observing, learning, sharing and debating Irishness, in the particular context of Liverpool, which makes the Festival unique.
Liverpool Irish Festival represent Northern Ireland, the Republic and the Irish diaspora’s creativity throughout the festival. Their annual thematic approach to programming, critical-thought and curation develops depth, resonance and inclusion.
