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In Conversation Event, 12-1pm, Saturday 25th March 2023, between artist Debbie Godsell and writer and ethnologist Deirdre Nuttall, facilitated by arts writer and curator Sarah Kelleher at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery as part of Flail, a solo exhibition by Debbie Godsell. Booking essential via eventbrite.

The panel will explore the broader ideas around the meaning of custom, and identity through the lens of the Church of Ireland tradition of the harvest thanksgiving. Central to the conversation will be gaps in the historical and archival narrative relating to a minority cultural group and its impact in contemporary Ireland.

Flail is a solo exhibition by artist Debbie Godsell, it is a testing ground for new work by the artist encompassing video, digital and textile works.

Debbie Godsell is a visual artist and arts educator based in Cork. She studied at the Limerick school of Art and Design and the Crawford College of Art, where she graduated with a Masters in Art. Her work is found in many collections including the National Gallery of Ireland, The OPW, Crawford Gallery, UCC, UCD, Cork Opera House and The Port of Cork. Recent exhibitions include Residues, Solo Exhibition 2022, Grilse Gallery; Botanica, The Art of Plants, Crawford art Gallery, 2022; Residues, Blue House Gallery, 2022; New Threads, Crawford Art Gallery, 2021; Land under the Waves, Cork Printmakers at Nano Nagle Place 2021; Home, West Cork Creates Exhibition, 2021; Visions of an Unsettled Earth, Sirius Art Centre, 2020; RHA Annual Exhibtion 2020.

Deirdre Nuttall is an ethnologist, researcher, and writer with a particular interest in narrative, folk religion, and oral history. Among her recent research projects, the Irish Protestant Folk Memory Project, which was carried out in partnership with the National Folklore Collection at UCD, culminated in a book (A Folk History of the Protestants of Independent Ireland, Eastwood Press). She is currently engaged in a research project exploring the oral history of the county of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown. She also works as a writer, researcher and collaborator in the areas of memoir and biography.

Sarah Kelleher is an independent arts writer, curator, and Government of Ireland scholar currently finishing her PhD on contemporary Irish sculpture with the History of Art Department in UCC, and is an assistant lecturer at MTU CCAD.

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Exhibition Opening Times: Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm Until 6th April

Image: Artist Debbie Godsell with her work in her solo exhibition Flail at Cork Printmakers. (Photo Credit Clare Keogh)

The development of this work was supported by an Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary and a Cork County Arts Office Creative Arts Bursary.  Cork Printmakers is supported by The Arts Council and Cork City Council.

Ah Go On! is an experimental exhibition that investigates, through artist intervention and performative modes of presentation, the central role that mundane acts and rituals can play within the context of identity and rebellion.

The subject of this investigation is obscured by the intentional omission of artworks from the offset. Each Thursday at 1pm, over a four-week period, the audience are invited to performative interventions, where the exhibition will evolve; transforming and shifting as work is added, removed and rearranged. A final event on 17 November will mark the culmination of this process, at which point the full intention of the works will be presented and understood.

BAN-EEE-UKT is a collaborative partnership between artist Lynn-Marie Dennehy and curatorial-practitioner Nic Flanagan. Together their work finds ways of highlighting and disrupting hegemonic systems through interactive performative events, printed media and installation works.

Lynn-Marie Dennehy’s work explores the space between culture, art and resistance. Her goal is to find ways of reflecting the contradictions within our own society through her work, oscillating between the irony of post-modernism and the sincerity of modernism. She does this by building contradictions into the work and exposing the making process. She plays with scale and materiality to create a deliberate friction within the work that allows for different interpretations.
Nic Flanagan’s research-based art and curatorial practices examine progressive programming, theories of interaction and disruption within arts spaces as a means for autonomous and respectful interactions between artists, galleries and communities. Works are designed with a playful, tongue in cheek reproach to Irish culture, both as an internal figure and a disconnected audience member.

Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery is a space for presenting work developed or produced within the studio below, and aims to present contemporary and expanded print practice by members and partners of Cork Printmakers. The gallery celebrates printmaking as an active medium for collaboration, experimentation and exchange.

Ah Go On! is part of a series of exhibitions at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery that look at different approaches and interpretations of expanded printmaking and the diverse practices of Cork Printmakers artists who work across disciplines from printmaking, sculpture, video and performance.

Exhibition Schedule:
1pm 27 October: Initial Conversation
1pm 3 November: Performative Intervention (Instagram live & in person event)
1pm 10 November: Performative Intervention (Instagram live & in person event)
6pm 17 November Finissage / Final Intervention
24 November: Exhibition Closes

In from the Margins is a Creative Europe Co-operative Project forming the first Studios of Sanctuary network across Europe. The programme will support artists from refugee, migrant and displaced backgrounds in five print making studios across Europe, including: Cork Printmakers; Edinburgh Printmakers; Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier; International Centre for Graphic Arts Ljubljana; and Funen Print Making Studio Odense.

Cork Printmakers is offering six Artist in Residence posts during summer 2022. Each residency runs for one month and they will run concurrently. Each artist is invited to create an artwork for exhibition, which will take place in Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery in April 2023. Additionally, each residency will incorporate a community outreach element. Artist Open Call deadline for receipt of applications 12th April 2022.

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In From The Margins is made possible with the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

• Artist : Antony Reznik
• Cork Printmakers Studio – Ground Floor
• 1pm, Thursday, 28th July 2022

Cork Printmakers welcome you to a lunchtime Artist Talk at 13:00 on Thursday 28th July in the ground floor studio by visiting artist Antony Reznik. (https://www.instagram.com/antonyreznik/)

Antony fled the war in Kharkiv Ukraine earlier this year and took up residence in the EU, which gave him first hand experience of displacement. He is one of six artists in residence at Cork Printmakers for the IN FROM THE MARGINS – Studios of Santuary project this summer.

In his practice, Antony often takes a light and jovial approach, jumbling postmodern concepts to question the notion of high art. To achieve this he creates a ‘clash of opposite meanings’ blending cultural and historical references, artistic styles and visual images together in unconventional and unexpected ways. The impact of these combinations is the creation of new meanings informed by the entirety of art history and his own personal experiences.

IN FROM THE MARGINS is a programme of Studios of Sanctuary residencies for artists with experience of displacement, supported by the European Commission’s Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), through its Creative Europe programme.

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All welcome, free entry.

Image: Deirdre Breen, Pinch, 2021, sculptural object – plaster, concrete, acrylic.

• Artist : Deirdre Breen and Dominic Fee
• Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery
• 19 May – 28 July 2022

(Viewings strictly by appointment: 12-4pm Monday to Thursday)

Opening Reception: 5pm – 7pm, Thursday 19th May 2022. Open to all.

Cork Printmakers are delighted to present Expanded Print: Infrastructural the inaugural exhibition launching the new Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery. Expanded Print: Infrastructural celebrates architecture, materiality, form and process. It reflects the ethos of the renovated and reconfigured gallery space and its position within an artist studio setting. The gallery has been opened up to reveal the fabric of the historic building, a former grain store for the nearby brewery in Cork City. The exhibition places contemporary and experimental practices within the traditions and history of printmaking. It considers how the casted object acts as a three-dimensional print, contrasting this with the two dimensionality of a print on paper. The works of both Breen and Fee document and preserve found objects and surfaces through the casting and printing process.

Both artist’s works explore geometry, form and site specificity. Fee’s prints document the studio fabric and machinery of Cork Printmakers through paper pulp casting and printing while Breen’s plaster cast and mixed media sculptures play on an assumed hierarchy of materials, both industrial and domestic, and examines what is disposable and what is venerable and questions the value in the mundane.

Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery is a space for presenting work developed or produced within the studio below. It aims to present contemporary and expanded print practice by members and partners of Cork Printmakers. The gallery celebrates printmaking as an active medium for collaboration, experimentation and exchange. Expanded Print: Infrastructural is part of a series of exhibitions across 2022 that will look at different approaches and interpretations of expanded printmaking, to the diverse practices of Cork Printmakers artists who work across disciplines from printmaking, sculpture, video and performance.

Viewings strictly by appointment: 12-4pm Monday to Thursday Book appointment here.

Image: Makeover, 2020. Photo Etching by Miriam Hurley. Documentation by John Beasley. (C) the artist. In a backstage dressing room the actor Andrew Holden transforms into character as Buttons from the 2007 Cork Opera House production of Cinderella.

• An exhibition by Miriam Hurley at Cork Opera House
• Summer 2021

Cork Printmakers are delighted to present an exhibition of photoetching prints by the artist Miriam Hurley at Cork Opera House in summer 2021. Captured backstage at Cork Opera House over a number of years, Miriam’s images portray the nervous energy and focus of performers “standing by” for their final call to perform. While audiences and performers alike are still standing by to return to our cultural venues, this exhibition gives viewers a sense of the atmosphere and energy behind the scenes at the beloved Cork Opera House.

While working at Cork Opera House, Miriam Hurley captured her unique perspective of these often-unseen moments on black and white film. By witnessing the solitude that performers experience when given their final call, the artist recorded and portrayed their nervous energy, hidden vulnerability and sense of trepidation. In this body of work, Miriam captures the performers’ focus, internal fear and vulnerability while transforming into their character. She portrays the disarming moment when performers become detached and alone in the moments before they emerge from the wings onto the stage.

The artist states: “as a keen photographer I started taking the photographs for the Cork Opera House in-house productions, these were staged photo shoots to be used as PR in the media to promote the shows. But what really caught my eye was being backstage as actors and performers prepared themselves prior to going on stage in the dressing rooms and in the final moments waiting in the wings before taking to the stage. I knew that I had a unique perspective that only a very few get to see and I wanted to capture these rarely witnessed moments on black and white film. I was able to photograph various performers unobtrusively and while in preparation in a natural way. I felt very privileged to have been part of the process and I am delighted to share it now with the general public”

In 2018 Miriam created the first part of this body of work at Cork Printmakers studios and completed the full body of work during 2020/21. The use of different print techniques, inks and papers gave Hurley the opportunity to rework the photographs, playing with tonal range and texture to capture the true atmosphere experienced when taking the image.

Cork Printmakers present Miriam Hurley’s exhibition Standing By as part of their 30th Anniversary Programme. Established in 1991, Cork Printmakers is a professional print studio, gallery and resource organisation providing artists with facilities and equipment to create artwork through the medium of print. The exhibition can be viewed at Cork Opera House foyer during café opening hours, 8.30am-5pm Monday-Saturday throughout summer 2021. A short film documentary by Colm Walsh accompanies the exhibition and can be viewed here:

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Cork Printmakers are delighted to take part in the annual Cruinniú na nÓg, a day of free creativity for children and young people. In 2022 we are excited to welcome everyone back to our studio. We invite all ages to our drop-in printmaking demonstrations. Visitors will get to watch the fascinating printmaking process in this free one-hour demo and take away a print as a souvenir.

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• Lynn Marie Dennehy, Hehir & Noonan, Eimearjean Mc Cormack, Peter Nash
• Curated by Maeve Lynch
• Studio 12, Backwater Artists Group, Wandesford Quay, Cork City
• 30 July – 27 August 2021

• Open for walk-ins: 12-3pm Wednesday and Thursday
• Viewings by appointment: 10am-5pm Tuesday to Friday
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Cork Printmakers artists present the exhibition Beyond Survival in response to the Backwater Artists Group Studio 12 programme for 2021: The Human Animal. Beyond Survival examines contemporary image making in print and expanded print practice in the context of the historical journey of the human race, from developing language to symbolism to the eventual development of visual language and communication through contemporary art. This exhibition featuring Cork Printmakers artists Lynn Marie Dennehy, Eimearjean Mc Cormack, Peter Nash and collaborators Catherine Hehir and Noelle Noonan highlights the many printmaking techniques used by Cork Printmakers members. Beyond Survival examines aspects of the human form and the role of the artist in portraying issues around existence, culture, place and language.

Established in 1991, Cork Printmakers is a professional print studio, gallery and resource organisation providing artists with facilities and equipment to create artwork through the medium of print. Located at Wandesford Quay in the heart of Cork City it supports and promotes the creation and development of new work through our studios, exhibitions, events and education programme, promoting the highest standards of practice in printmaking.

Backwater Artists Group provides studios to 45 artists and has been central to visual art and creative production since 1990. Through the Studio 12 programme, Backwater Artists Group presents work by its members and collaborators that challenge and inspire audiences with contemporary art. Find out more about the Studio 12 programme here: backwaterartists.ie/the-human-animal-2021 This programme is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland Project Award and the Cork City Council Project Scheme.

• Cork Printmakers 30
• The Lavit Gallery, Wandesford Quay, Cork City
• 27 May – 19 June 2021

Cork Printmakers 30 is the inaugural exhibition of Cork Printmakers 30th Anniversary Programme. Theexhibition at the Lavit Gallery features the work of 40 artists and celebrates the diverse practices and approaches to printmaking by current members of Cork Printmakers.

With 100 members, Cork Printmakers artists work across traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques including lithography, etching, screenprint, relief print, as well as expanded print practice to incorporate video, installation and performance.

Established in 1991, Cork Printmakers is a professional print studio, gallery and resource organisation providing artists with facilities and equipment to create artwork through the medium of print. Located at Wandesford Quay in the heart of Cork City it supports and promotes the creation and development of new work through our studios, exhibitions, events and education programme, promoting the highest standards of practice in printmaking.

Through an ambitious programme of solo exhibitions and group shows, the Lavit Gallery promotes both emerging and established Irish and international artists, stimulating and challenging Cork audiences.

To find out more about the artists and to purchase artwork please visit lavitgallery.com

The exhibition can be visited during Lavit Gallery opening hours:

10:30am – 6:00pm Tuesday to Friday and 10:30am – 5:00pm Saturday

• Irish Landscape and the Sea
• The Print Gallery, Nano Nagle Place
• December 2020 – July 2021

Exhibiting Artists: John Beasley, Johnny Bugler, Wendy Dison, Angela Gilmour, Debbie Godsell, Deirdre McKenna, Emma O’Hara

Land Under the Waves/Tír Fothoinn is an exhibition by Cork Printmakers at The Print Gallery, Nano Nagle Place, exploring the Irish landscape and the sea.

The title takes reference from Celtic mythology and tales of the Otherworld, believed to be reached beneath the water of lakes and oceans. This exhibition celebrates the everlasting relationship between land and sea on this island. Land Under the Waves/Tír Fothoinn features prints by Cork Printmakers’ artists working in the medium of etching, screenprint, monoprint, photopolymer and lithography. These prints depict the unique formations of the Burren, the earthy tones of Ireland and colourful contemporary takes on traditional scenes. The artworks shift from commanding maritime landmarks to peaty, rocky and undulating terrains.

The permanence of the watchful, protective and impenetrable structures of the lighthouses that punctuate Ireland’s coastline are contrasted with the transient nature of the sea and shoreline. The Print Gallery is a partnership between Nano Nagle Place and Cork Printmakers, a print studio and resource organisation with over 100 members based at Wandesford Quay, Cork City. This partnership presents a unique opportunity for visitors to enjoy and purchase contemporary art by local artists in the historical setting of Nano Nagle Place. Exhibitions at The Print Gallery change each season to showcase the diverse talent of Cork Printmakers’ artists and reflect on themes particular to the environment and people of Cork.

A Vimeo Exhibition 

Host is an exhibition by Cork Printmakers in partnership with Sample-Studios at Tactic Gallery, The Lord Mayors Pavilion, Cork, Ireland, featuring the work of four artists: Aoife Claffey, Jennifer Cummins, Diane Keating and Rory O’ Mahony. These four artists are recipients of Cork Printmakers’ graduate bursary awards, from Limerick School of Art and Design and CIT Crawford College of Art and Design.

In partnership with Sample-Studios, Cork Printmakers invited their graduate bursary award recipients to exhibit their work at the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion in August in a slightly different format to usual, presenting work as part of the artists’ expanded printmaking practice. The artists’ work is exhibited in a way that visitors to Fitzgerald’s Park can view it through the windows, without the need to enter the building.

You can also view the work online following documentation. The placement of the work in an online space questions the traditional exhibition format: how can galleries present work and how do audiences engage with art in this new age of physical distancing and restrictions?

• The Lavit Gallery
• July 23 – 27 2019
• Special Viewing Reception Thursday 25th 5.30-7pm
• An exhibition of new works by members of Cork Printmakers