Graphic Studio Gallery is delighted to present its annual Winter Show, focusing on new work by members of our studio. We also launch our new Sponsors' Portfolio, with writing by Colm Toibin, and original prints by Gwen O'Dowd, Elke Thonnes, Aoife Scott and Cliona Doyle.
Graphic Studio Gallery is delighted to announce an extensive new body of work by the internationally renowned street artist Maser. All prints in the exhibition were made at Graphic Studio Dublin, through its revered Visiting Artist Programme, and are available exclusively at Graphic Studio Gallery.
Graphic Studio Gallery is pleased to announce a new exhibition by three established printmakers and long time members of Graphic Studio, who have come together to make a body of work for this exhibition.
Graphic Studio Gallery is delighted to present this much anticipated group show, featuring new work by more than 40 artists, inspired by Mountjoy Square and its immediate environs.
We are delighted to present 'Sappho's Daughter', a poem by Theo Dorgan with lithographs by Liam O Broin.
To be opened by the Ambassador of Greece to Ireland, Her Excellency, Mrs. Katia Georgiou.
Taking its title from a carborundum by Gwen O'Dowd, waterbased is a new exhibition at Graphic Studio Dublin, where water is a central element in the composition of the work.
Work by Mary Lohan, Donald Teskey, Elke Thonnes, Sean McSweeney, Daniel Lipstein, Susan Early, Colin Martin, James McCreary, Michael Cullen, Mary Grey, William Crozier, Palmela Leonard, Niall Naessens, Keith Wilson, Felim Egan, Cora Cummins and Martin Gale.
Opens on the 3rd March 2016, launched by the Canadian Ambassador, his Excellency, Mr. Kevin Vickers.
The exhibition explores a number of aspects of Irish History. The Easter Rising of 1916 in the work of Merijean Morrissey. References to the history of the Irish College, Centre Cultural Irlandais in the work of Geraldine O'Reilly, based on her research whilst artist in residence at the college, and the Curragh Internment Camp in the work of Margo Mc Nulty where her great uncle was interred.
All is not lost is an exhibition of new etchings based on the artists visits to museums, alongside a selection of the working drawings and some earlier works, which resonate with them, that are presented for the first time.
This exhibition, is the first of a series, that delves into the gallery's extensive stock of Visiting Artists.
The Visiting Artists Programme was established at Graphic Studio Dublin in 1980, as a major collaborative aspect of Graphic Studio Dublin's annual programme. Established artists, whose primary medium is not fine art print, are invited to work with our master printmakers, to create a suite of prints.
Work by Louis le Brocquy, Mary Lohan, Tony O'Malley, John Noel Smith, William Crozier and Geraldine O'Neill are presented alongside recent sculpture by Gwen Wilkinson and Eilis O'Connell.
Graphic Studio is hosting an Autumn Exhibition in an special off-site location. This event is sponsored by Covestone Asset Management and is located in their new offices; 46 James Place East, (just behind the former Bank of Ireland Head Quarters on Baggot Street) Dublin 2.
Please join us for a glass of wine and some canapes on Thursday 8th October from 6-8pm.
The exhibition will also be open Friday 9th October 11-5pm.
Graphic Studio Gallery is delighted to host a joint exhibition between two Northern Ireland female artists from Seacourt Print Workshop, Co Down. Deirdre McCrory and Catherine Thompson have been collaborating on their show entitled Near & Far.
Their work explores the delicate imagery of their surrounding landscape. The softness of McCrory's work and the bold lines of Thompson's ensure the viewer experiences the scenery on multiple levels.
Graphic Studio Gallery is pleased to launch our annual summer exhibition, showcasing new framed work from studio members and gallery artists. A diverse range of printmaking techniques can be seen including etching, linocut, drypoint, carborundum, lithography and mezzotint.
'Come away, O Human Child'... and pay a visit to Graphic Studio Gallery during June 4th - 27th, when we will be hosting a literary-themed show with 'Poetic Prints' inspired by the works of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Seamus Heaney, Oscar Wilde and more...
These works weave together our nation's visual abundance and rich literary heritage in time for Bloomsday and Yeats2015, celebrating 150 years since the birth of one of Ireland's greatest poets.
Graphic Studio Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition of print and sculpture by four of our highly reviered Graphic Studio Dublin members and artists. May Quartet joins the work of James McCreary, Jennifer Lane, Gerard Cox and Yoko Akino who all produce beautifully crafted prints with playful themes and bold colours. These juxtaposed against a range of bronze sculptures by Gerard Cox make this group exhibition a must see over May 2015.
Graphic Studio Gallery is pleased to showcase Daniel Lipsteins solo exhibition featuring an array of etchings and aquatints, exploring theories on meditation and compassion. The exhibition derives from the titles of two of Lipsteins etchings, and for the artist it is this combination of ideas that ponder on the very nature and meaning of true compassion.
Graphic Studio Gallery is delighted to showcase the masterful technique of artist Niall Naessens. The new etchings and monoprint/drawings outline passing moments hinting at narratives that describe the environs of the L12121, the number recently assigned to the road where Naessens lives and works.
Graphic Studio Gallery is very pleased to announce an exhibition by a Belfast based artist, Lisa Malone, opening on Thursday 5th February.
Malone's works often present alternate realities; exploring the narratives between singular beings and the world at large: looking at structures; containment; people's interactions with each other and the landscapes they have created for themselves.
Graphic Studio Gallery's wonderful annual winter exhibition "Celebrating Tradition" presents a unique collection of newly released fine art prints by Graphic Studio Dublin members and gallery artists, demonstrating a plethora of printmaking techniques, styles and themes which focus on traditions - breaking them and creating new ones.
Graphic Studio Gallery has drawn together an exceptional exhibition of two unique, complementary artists and members of Graphic Studio Dublin, Jean Bardon and Louise Leonard. Their work captures both the national and world-class qualities that both artists personify.
This exhibition evolved last year when a number of artists came together to showcase the prints that they had been making over a period of time. The journey that the artist takes to create a body of work can take many years as the artist explores, discovers and develops a theme or an idea. Over months, years or decades these prints have been exhibited individually and for this exhibition the series was shown as a collective.
For Culture Night 2014, Graphic Studio Gallery are hosting a letterpress printing and bookmaking workshop with artists Mary Plunkett and Eilis Murphy. As well as learning about the wonderful art of the book, you will leave with your very own creation!
Graphic Studio Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition of artist Tom Phelan. Phelan retired as studio manager and master printmaker at Graphic Studio Dublin to concentrate on his own work, after committing over twenty years to the renowned Dublin print workshop.
Mostly working in the medium of woodblock print, Phelan's use of repeat patterns, balance and colour create a body of work that is contemporary, exciting and distinctive, while also showcasing his high technical skills.
Graphic Studio Gallery is pleased to launch our annual summer exhibition, showcasing new framed work from studio members and gallery artists.
This exhibition will also feature the new works by two of our studio's 2014 Visiting Artists: John Kindness and Keith Wilson. Resulting in a show that celebrates contemporary printmaking by artists from both sides of the border.
Graphic Studio Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition of three highly accomplished artists and Graphic Studio Dublin members, Elke Thönnes, Margaret Tuffy and Marta Wakula-Mac. These artists are showcasing how we strive to interpret what we see around us, juxtaposing architecture, landscape and the human figure with history, memory and emotion.
Marta Wakula-Mac will give a demonstration on Saturday 14th June 2014, 1.30pm.
Booking for this talk is essential, email: gallery@graphicstudiodublin.com or phone 01 679 8021
'The sensuous curves of the open flower, curious form of the bud, and gossamer threads of the seedhead have captured my vision and attention over time. Drawing the essence of a plant, as opposed to the scientifically botanical is my modus operandum. To look into the quite ordinary, you can find the truly beautiful."
Grainne Cuffe will give a talk as part of National Drawing Day 2014 on Saturday 17th May 2014, 1.30pm.
Booking for this talk is essential, email: gallery@graphicstudiodublin.com or phone 01 679 8021
Graphic Studio Gallery exhibits over 30 works of art from the Bo Halbirk Studio's stable of artists. Bo Halbirk Studio was founded in 1992 by the well-known Danish printmaker, Bo Halbirk. He was accompanied by a group of artist-engravers whom he had met at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, becoming the very core of the workshop's founding members.
This exhibition brings to Ireland an international exhibition of contemporary prints by fifteen studio members of nine different nationalities together with a collection of artists' books.
This two-person exhibition is the result of Dublin City Council's Arts Plan 2009 - 2013, where Graphic Studio Dublin collaborated with Dublin City Council on an artist residency in The Red Stables. Artist Lars Wikström was selected from a large number of Swedish applicants and spent six weeks with us in July/August 2011. Following this success, Graphic Studio Dublin artist Sharon Lee was invited to spend six weeks in Sweden at Grafikverkstan Godsmagasinet during the summer of 2012.
Graphic Studio Gallery's wonderful Winter Exhibition presents a unique collection of newly released fine art prints by Graphic Studio Dublin members and gallery artists, demonstrating a wide range of printmaking techniques. These framed artworks are an innovative and affordable gift, which can be taken home in time for Christmas.
A Natural Selection is an unusual opportunity to purchase a rare specimen at a common or garden price! 100 renowned Printmakers have produced 100 original prints in editions of 100 based on the riches of the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin. These are available to you at the amazingly affordable price of €100.
Beneficiaries will be Graphic Studio Dublin, the artists and you the buyer!
The starting point of a series is like the start of a journey, a journey through which the artist explores, discovers and develops a theme or an idea. Over a period of time this journey evolves, transforming into what we view as a body of work, constantly changing yet keeping the essence of its theme throughout.
"In Tony O'Malley's eyes, no scene, no matter how humble, is without potential for art and - by extension - no person, no matter how subjugated, is beyond potential for a more meaningful life." Dennis O'Driscoll, 2002.
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is delighted to present 'Pressed', an exhibition of contemporary printmaking curated by Graphic Studio Dublin.
The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to engage with a wide range of rich and evocative fine art works created by print practitioners living in, working in or originally from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown; or who have trained as an artist in a college in the County.
In association with James Plunkett's novel 'Strumpet City' being the UNESCO City of Literature 2013 Dublin: One City, One Book, Graphic Studio Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of 46 artists in connection with this epic book. The exhibition, also entitled 'Strumpet City', will run from the 11th of July to the 24th of August, and will feature a collection of contemporary fine art prints of various aspects of Dublin city and its history.
Graphic Studio Gallery presents 'Kura' an exhibition of original prints by printmakers Yoko Hara and Takahiko Hayashi represented by Yanagisawa Gallery in Tokyo and Irish artists, Richard Gorman and John Graham who have exhibited extensively in Japan and at Yanagisawa Gallery.
Two Person show with Artist Michael Timmins' prints documenting the space around him and Niamh McGuinne work dealing with the idea of permanence and timelessness.
Luan Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of Remastered: works from the Graphic Studio Dublin's Visiting Artists' Programme.
This exhibition is the fourth show to be hosted by Luan Gallery which has presented a varied selection of local, regional and national artists since its recent opening.
Join us in our studio on North Circular Road, Dublin 1 for Visit 2013 on Sunday 12th May.
Visit 2013 is a weekend event which will see artist's studios organisations all over Dublin city opening their doors to the public. Artists make their artworks in buildings that are scattered throughout the city, and Visit 2013 invites you to enter these usually private spaces, talk to the artists and see their work first hand.
Continuing to draw from themes of childhood and nature, and how the two interact with one another, Carmel Benson's new works examine the tenuous balance between a child's absorbed integration and awed observation in the natural world.
Framed works by a selection of Gallery Artists, Studio Members
and Visiting Artists work, including a limited number of new small works by artist Donald Teskey.
Come into our gallery in Temple Bar for our annual Winter Exhibition. The gallery is filled with framed works by our studio members and gallery artists that can be taken home with you on purchase.
Also our 2013 Sponsors' Portfolio is on display and available for purchase.
Join us for SKETCHBOOKS, our one-day exhibition fundraiser on Saturday 1 December 2012. Buy a page from an artist's sketchbook, all one price of €50, in this unique exhibition of informal and intimate work.
Click here to view the names of the artists involved.
Michael Canning, Ethan Murrow, Gwen O'Dowd, Barbara Rae,
& Donald Teskey. We are very excited to be showcasing these new works by such a fantastic group of artists.
The enduring power of Dante's imagination in his masterpiece 'The Divine Comedy' has inspired artists from the Middle Ages to the present. On reading this literary epic, the artist Liam Ó Broin began three years ago the daunting challenge to create 34 coloured lithographs in response to each canto of Inferno.
Our annual summer exhibition takes place once again this year, showcasing new fresh work from studio members and gallery artists. This year, there is a fine representation of work by artists from both sides of the borders and the exhibition showcases a diverse range of printmaking techniques; etching, linocut, dry point, carborundum, lithography and mezzotint. This show will display over 80 framed prints and include works of various sizes at affordable prices.
In this new body of work the artist Ruth O'Donnell juxtaposes images of fragile objects and the iconic beauty of the peacock motif. 'As time changes what endures?' poses the artist as she explores the meaning of immutable beauty through the image of the peacock and the mutable fragility of small delicate objects.
This two person exhibition features the work of Joe Ryan & Tracy Sweeney. Ryan's work is inspired by the theories of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon and Michel Foucault's institutions and heterotopias.
Tracy Sweeney's work stems from days and months of traversing the city of Stockholm. Lost in the city's stations of clinical muted greens, tiled blue tube tunnels and warning signs.
Artists John Behan, Clare Henderson and James McCreary take the poem
'Hy-Braisail - The Isle of the Blest' by Gerard Griffin (1803-1840) based on the phantom island lying off the West coast of Ireland as inspiration for this three-person exhibition.
"There is something of common race instinct in the work of all original Irish writers of to-day and, it can hardly be absent in their sister art".
Sir Hugh Lane (1875 - 1915)
Drop by our gallery in Temple Bar for our annual Winter Exhibition. This year we've changed the format of the show so the gallery will be filled with framed works that can be taken home with you on purchase.
We will also showcase previous 'Little Christmas' small format prints at 10% discount.
Artists: Louise Farrelly, Paula Fitzpatrick, David Lunney & Nicole Tilley
As part of our ongoing support and promotion of emerging artists, Graphic Studio Gallery hosts an exhibition of award winning graduate artists under our graduate award scheme. This exhibition showcases the work of four artists who graduated in fine art print and allows them to show their work in a professional gallery following their yearlong free membership and mentoring at Graphic Studio Dublin.
Brainbelt Illustration Collective is a diverse network of 13 creative professional artists and designers who bear a heartfelt passion for illustration. The group's visual disciplines vary: sculpture, print design, motion design, multimedia and photography.
As part of Design Week 2011, Brainbelt Illustration Collective will showcase some of their work here in Graphic Studio Gallery.
A renowned printmaker and watercolourist, Pamela Leonard showcases a selection of her works spanning 20 years to date. A graduate of NCAD Leonard is especially renown for her exceptional landscapes. Her works explore light and dark and focuses on capturing these elements in forests and glades.
Two person exhibition featuring lithographs and sculptures by Eamonn O'Doherty and lithographs, etchings, photoetchings and a video installation by Margo McNulty.
Two person exhibition featuring Gerard Cox and Ciaran Tuite.
This exhibition is included in the 'Bealtaine' Festival 2011 and Gerard Cox will do a demonstration on woodblock printmaking and Ciaran Tuite has created a print on the Bealtaine's 2011 theme: 'Push the boat out, whatever the sea' taken from the poem 'At Eighty' by Edwin Morgan, OBE.
An engaging selection of works from gallery and visiting artists can be viewed at the gallery for two weeks only.
This exhibition features prints by Gráinne Cuffe, Margaret Tuffy, Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, Cliona Doyle, Martin Gale, Marta Wakula-Mac, Sean McSweeney, Felim Egan, Robert Russell, Nickie Hayden, Ruth O'Donnell, Barbara Rae, Gwen O'Dowd, Stephen Lawlor, James McCreary, Siobhan Hyde, John Kindness, Jean Bardon, Hughie O'Donoghue, Tony O'Malley, Jane O'Malley, Daniel Lipstein, Nicole Tilley, Niamh McGuinne, Elke Thonnes, Niamh Flanagan, Katherine Van Uytrecht, Niamh Mac Gowan, Kelvin Mann, Pamela Leonard, Jennifer Lane, Adrienne Symes, Louise Leonard and Geraldine O'Reilly.
Barbara Rae CBE RA, renowned Scottish painter is equally at home with creating prints as she is painting. Printmaking has always been an integral part of her artistic life. For Rae, how she conceives and works on her monoprints, screenprints, carborundums and etchings enhances and informs her paintings and vice-versa.
As the master printmaker Ron Pokrasso quotes: 'Barbara is not a painter who makes prints but a painter and a printermaker'.
And so it goes features new works by Philip Murphy. This show incorporates innovative printmaking techniques where Murphy uses plates made from silicone or perspex and methods such as encaustic. Encaustic is a highly pigmented wax, which is painted onto a heated plate from which a monotype can be pulled. More traditional printmaking techniques are also exhibited albeit incorporating sculpture and installation.
Following the huge success of last year's Little Christmas show in 2008, this exhibition features a suite of images with a paper size of 20 cm x 25 cm and limited to an edition of 20 based on the theme 'matrix'.
The Visiting Artists Programme (established in 1980) is a major collaborative aspect of Graphic Studio Dublin's annual programme. Artists whose main work methodology is not fine art print, but who work with masterprinters, make a suite of prints. This year's Visiting Artists exhibition will showcase an interesting mix of leading artists such as Hughie O'Donoghue, Richard Gorman, Michael Cullen, Diana Copperwhite and Martin Gale.
Voussoir is the first retrospective of the contemporary printmaker and celebrated author Brian Lalor and the most comprehensive presentation of his fine art prints to date.
For over two decades the artist Niall Naessens has developed a masterful technique through the medium of Intaglio, to produce a suite of coloured etchings for this exhibition in his new studio at Lios na Caolbhaí, Brandon, Co Kerry.
This innovative exhibition is the final stage of a three year project, which began with an initial exhibition Where Borders Meet held at the polish Museum "Dwory Karwacjanow I Gladyszów" and a subsequent residency in Gorlice, Poland in 2008 by the above fifteen artists from Graphic Studio Dublin. MOK Gallery, Debica, Poland exhibited this show in September 2009 as the second part of this international project.
This week long exhibition commemorates the renowned artist Moya Bligh, a prominent printmaker and woodblock artist.
The exhibition coincides with an exhibition at Original Print Gallery, 14th January - 6th February 2010, featuring five artists including Moya Bligh.
Following the huge success of last year's Little Christmas show in 2008, this exhibition features a suite of images with a paper size of 20cm x 25cm and limited to an edition of 20 based on the combining form -scape.
This is a two person show with, Gallery Artist, Jo Gorner and Andrzej Mazur, a Member of Graphic Studio Dublin. Gorner's images centre on an object or a place within the landscape and her reading of this via her emotions and events in her life. The Human being is Andrzej's greatest inspiration and his work focuses on communication and the complexities of human relationships.
The Visiting Artists Scheme, established since 1980 at Graphic Studio Dublin continues with this show, to play an important role in Irish Art. This visually challenging exhibition features iconic living Irish artists, acclaimed both nationally and internationally.
Graphic Studio Gallery's autumn exhibition schedule starts with a two-person show by artists Sophie Aghajanian and James Allen. Allen studied at Belfast College of Art and Brighton College of Art. In 1977 he founded Belfast Print workshop, which, is a highly successful Print studio in Belfast. Born in Haifa (of Armenian extraction), Sophie Aghajanian studied at Ravensbourne College of Art and Brighton College of Art.
Summer Show features fresh works from Gallery artists and Graphic Studio Dublin members and showcases a diverse range of printmaking techniques; etching, linocut, drypoint, carborundum, lithography and mezzotint, at very attractive prices.
Graphic Studio Gallery hosts a unique exhibition, featuring award winning graduate artists. All of the artists whose work is on display have made the transition from being fine art students to exhibiting at a professional level. Graphic studio Dublin's graduate award scheme gives an essential opportunity to student artists to gain valuable experience in printmaking, financial support and an invitation to participate in an exhibition at Graphic Studio Gallery.
This is a two person show, an internationally renown artist, Professor Jerzy Jedrysiak and Marta Wakula-Mac, a member of Graphic Studio Dublin. Professor Jedrysiak's work centers on a metaphor 'Silva rerun' meaning The Forest of Things, which dates back to the Roman Empire. Marta Wakula-Mac's inspiration for her linocuts is the creation of the world and celebration of life.
A diverse selection of framed prints from our stable of visiting
artists stock including Louis le Brocquy, Elizabeth Blackadder,
Barbara Rae, William Crozier, Tony O'Malley, Micheal Farrell,
Michael Cullen, Gwen O'Dowd, Felim Egan, Tim Goulding,
Patrick Hall, Ciaran Lennon and John Noel Smith among
others, will be on show at Graphic Studio Gallery
from 9th April - 23rd April 2009.
As valued customers of Graphic Studio Gallery, we are pleased to offer a substantial discount on exhibited framed works.