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Graphic Studio Dublin – Expanded Print Programme

POSTGRADUATE FINE-ART PRINT RESIDENCY AWARD 2024

Application Date: Friday 8th November 2024, 4pm- Digital Submission | CLOSED

Applications will be accepted by email to info@graphicstudiodublin.com only. 

Please use Postgrad – Expanded Print residency in the subject line.

Graphic Studio Dublin’s Postgraduate Residency Award offers a place on our Expanded Print Programme to a postgraduate working in any artform, visual arts, architecture, music, theatre, creative writing, film etc. The 2024-25 Postgraduate Fine Art Print Award was made to Mick O’Kelly, the 2023 Award to Niall McCrann and the 2022 Award to Roisín McGuigan.

Expanded Print Residency

The Expanded Print Residency enables artists to re-contextualise and re-evaluate printmaking from the perspective of other artforms by providing opportunities to engage with printmaking. The goal is to achieve outcomes other than those usually sought from printmaking processes. We are not seeking to direct what these projects might look like, and so are looking at how applicants might respond to, or interact with, the environment of the print studio. The outcome could result from interactions with artists in the studio, visual or aural elements of the environment, engagement with printmaking;s conceptual or technical consideration, investigating the intersections between your own practice and printmaking. It can be a research or practice based residency.

The residency will provide access to Graphic Studio Dublin facilities and some materials, with technical support from Staff, and if requested a place on one of our courses will also be included. An opportunity to exhibit as part of a relevant exhibition in Graphic Studio Gallery will be offered to the artist. If materials are not required and the successful applicant is completing a research-based project, the materials budget will be transferred to provide a small stipend of €200.

The purpose of this residency is:

• To develop artists’ practices.
• To investigate and develop expanded print practices and outcomes.
• To develop and evolve how arts practitioners communicate with their audiences.
• To develop new perspectives on contemporary arts and printmaking.
• To develop and increase the relevance of printmaking to artists from all Irish arts sectors.
• To increase inclusiveness and engagement with artists.
• To engage with new and more diverse audiences.

Application Criteria:

• Applicants must be graduating or have graduated since, or including 2021 from a postgraduate program in Ireland, or abroad if they are normally, or will be, residing in Ireland for the duration of the residency. This is a self-directed residency. The residency will run for a month- or broken down into time slots that suit both the artist and staff, but should be completed within a year.

Application must include:

• An outline of a proposed project/research project and how it relates to, or engages with printmaking or printmaking processes.
• An outline of how the project relates to and will impact the artist’s practice.
• The goals and timeframe for the project, and the expected outcomes.
• Support documentation and images/recordings of relevant work.
• Biography/CV to include details of postgraduate award programme

Graphic Studio Dublin welcome all applicants and encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of your gender, sexual orientation, civil or family status, religion, age, disability, ethnicity or membership of the Traveller Community, or socio-economic background. If you have any difficulties making an application, please contact us at info@graphicstudiodublin.com and we can assist you.

The Postgraduate Fine Art Print Award – Expanded Print was offered in 2024-2025 to Mick O’Kelly, in 2023 to Niall McCrann and in 2022 to Roisin McGuigan, who developed her project, using woodblock as a print medium,  with Robert Russell, Master Printer over 2022/23.

“The Expanded Print Residency has given me an opportunity to bring my own material thinking to printmaking, to explore print in the context of my wider practice, and in a significant way, to allow the unique attributes of printmaking to inform my work.  

Encouraging a wide diversity of approaches, the residency opens the possibilities of print to the broad spectrum of contemporary arts practices and processes, and in that way I have been able to see it not simply as an alternative way of rendering, but a process that fully integrates into and enriches my practice.

My proposal for this residency was supported from the outset and realizing the resulting works would not have been possible without this opportunity and the expert guidance of Master Printer Robert Russell. It has been such a privilege to make work at Graphic Studio Dublin, the support and technical expertise never wavered, and the welcome and feedback of the studio members provided a creative and supportive environment for me to extend my practice. The experience has created exciting possibilities within my work and the potential for broader public engagement, outcomes that I am confident will continue long after the term of the residency.” Roisin McGuigan

2024 Post Grad – Expanded Print GSD Print Residency Application