Artist Biography

Marianne Keating was awarded a BA Honors Degree in Fine Art Printmaking from Limerick School of Art and Design (2002). She is currently printmaking technician and course tutor at Cork Printmakers and visiting lecturer at Limerick School of Art and Design.

Since graduating Keating has shown in a number of solo exhibitions, including sogo, The Launderette Gallery, Cork (2005); Pinstripe, South Tipperary Art Centre, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary (2005); Plastic Candy, The Front Lounge, Templebar; Signals Art Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow; Limerick Printmakers, Limerick (2004). Group exhibitions include Iontas, Small Works Exhibition, Sligo Art Gallery (2007); Cead in China, Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, China (2007); Impressions, Galway Arts Centre, Galway (2006); Limerick Printmakers Print Exhibition, Limerick Printmakers, (2006). She has also shown in a two-person show, Art Trail Emerging Artist exhibition, Form Gallery, Cork (2005).

Awards include the Cork Printmakers Residency Award (2007); Art Trail Emerging Artist Award (2005) and the Jim Gilligan Award in the Seventh Annual Tipperary Fine Art Graduate Exhibition (2001). Her work is represented in the Artfund Collection, Cork (2005) and the Jim Gilligan Collection, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary (2001).


To date my work has been concerned with the individual and the individual’s existence in relation to the masses. The medium I use, screenprint, combining photography and digital media, is integral to my ideas. The high quality of image reproduction, the vibrancy of colours, the versatility of the medium and the commercial quality of screen printing with its flat two-dimensional approach, along with the slick smooth impermeable finished quality that can be achieved, make it an appealing medium to explore. Colour is a strong factor in my work, the use of bold, synthetic pigments and different printing media creates a link with mass reproduction, high consumerism and our throw-away culture, which is reflective of the themes I explore.

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Website: www.mariannekeating.com