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The coincidence of tradition and the contemporary.
Fort is a platform for material culture. It tells the story of both past and present through the representation and documentation of artists, makers, and companies. Sitting at the meeting point of tradition and modernity, Fort explores the relationship between craft and industry. It values all ways of engaging with this space — whether through objects, images, or words — and sees collaboration across disciplines and generations as essential to keeping craft alive and evolving.
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Exhibitions
A Different Kettle of Fish Altogether (Dublin)
June 2025
On The Square (London
March 2025
Preserved In (London)
April 2024
Exhibited Artists and Companies
Muck (Non-violent Cutlery)
J Hill's Standard
Jim Behan
Roisín de Buitléar
Marcus O’Mahony
Sam Gleeson (ThisIsWhatWeDoo)
Dominic Keogh
Jack Smith
Laura Mays
Relief gallery
Ómós
Aisling Farinella
Maya Todd
Ríon Hannora
Paddy Critchley
Rachel Quinn
Aldo Bakker
Nigel Peake
John Kingerlee
Press
‘Artistic License: Gallery Owner And Curator Dee Morgan-Smyth’, The Gloss, 2025
‘The Frontier of Irish Design’, Image Interiors, 2025
‘Down the rabbit whole’, The Labratory Arts Collective,
2025
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Last Updated 24.10.31 EXHIBITIONS + PROJECTS
A Different Kettle of Fish Altogether
(June 2025)
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18 Ormond Quay, Dublin.
A Different Kettle of Fish Altogether (ADKoFA) is borne from a curiosity. A curiosity about craftwork. A curiosity about its representation and its documentation. And, at its most candid, a curiosity about doing these things differently.
Curated with sensitivity and curiosity,
ADKoFA brings together a remarkable group craftspeople, artists and companies who challenge conventional narratives around making.
In the making: On the Square
(March 2025)
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De Beauvoir Square, London.
Over the course of three pivotal moments—from the first winter light in December 2024 to the final frame in March 2025, “In the Making” captures the becoming of the house. Shot on nostalgic 8mm the film traces the house as it shifts from stillness into story.
Directed by Dee Morgan-Smyth
Cinematography and edit by Lily Ainsworth
Preserved In
(April 2024)
De Beauvoir Square, London.
A curation under candlelight in an abandoned house, the works of Irish artist Rachel Quinn and J Hill’s Standard, flowed around each other and brought back memories of old, doing exactly what they were supposed to do, in preserving.
“The best second-hand treasures you can discover, unearth and store are other people's memories, conveyed to us by whatever means. Things they saw that have vanished forever, but which are preserved in and by writing and painting. A visual language that might have gone, a syntax so nearly lost, a remembering passed on, not just through generosity, but because of a human pressing need to enshrine, to say this is how it was, and thus honour things, customs, ways of behaving, old manners that otherwise would have disappeared completely.” - Polly Devlin