Joe Hogan has been making baskets at Loch na Fooey since 1978 and in that time has earned a reputation for making strong, durable baskets of the highest quality. The colours in these award winning baskets are those of the natural willows which are grown at Loch na Fooey.

Joe also makes indigenous Irish baskets such as the creel. These are available to order and are described in his book, Basketmaking in Ireland, published by Wordwell in 2001.

 


FeaturedLifetime Achievement Award

 

President of Ireland / Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D. Higgins with Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Joe Hogan, at the opening of the Irish Craft Heroes information trail at Dublin Castle.

 

Featured: Nests

 

I have been making  nests now since about 2012  but in the last year I have tried to expand the size to include nests of larger birds and this winter of 2020/2021 I made a few really large nests over one meter wide of a size that an eagle might make. The aim has not been to make copies of the nests of various species of birds but rather to make nest-like objects which prompt the feeling that we are looking at a bird's nest and thus evoke some of the feelings of joy and wonder which might accompany the finding of nests in the wild. The nests have an artlessness to them as I do not want it to be obvious that they have been made by a person.  I have now built up a sizeable collection of  about 80 nests which celebrates the lives of birds and also explores what it it means to be “at home in the world” and I would hope to exhibit them in the next year or two.


Artistic Baskets

Traditional Baskets



Featured: Loewe Project

 

Joe was commissioned by Loewe to make  several pods which were displayed at their Spring/ Summer 2019 fashion show  held at UNESCO building,  Paris in late September 2018. The commission consisted of 6 extra large pods,  all greater than  1 meter in diameter and about 20 smaller sized pods.

See more here.


Exhibitions


Books

Bare Branches Blue Black Sky Book.

Learning From The Earth Book.

Basketmaking In Ireland Book



Collaborations & Projects

 

 

Specially commissioned pods for Loewe  Fashion Show, Spring /Summer 2019.

Twig hat collaboration with Joanne Hynes. London Fashion Week 2011.