Emmet Kane was born and raised in Castledermot, Co. Kildare Ireland. He comes from five generations of Master

Craftsmen. Self-taught, Kane creates thin-walled vessels which defy the difficulties of the medium and whose use of

colour, is more readily associated with ceramics or glass. Today, he works predominantly in native hardwoods, citing a

particular fondness for Irish oak, which he textures and ebonises, gilds and colours. At times, his work looks like glass

or plastic, even metal, until you draw near and see the texture or grain and wonder just how it was achieved. Kane has

exhibited his work around the world and in 2015 he was the first living person in the History of the National Museum of

Ireland, Decorative Arts and History Collins Barracks Dublin to have retrospective exhibition ‘A Journey’: twenty-seven

years of the work of Irish woodturner Emmet Kane. Exhibition was extended for over two years and closed in January

2017. Kane has accepted invitations to teach, lecture and demonstrate his unique brand of woodturning around the

world, including woodturning symposiums in Australia, Finland, England, France, Norway, Germany, and USA and

throughout the Island of Ireland.

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