Residency

1. Fingal County Council and Graphic Studio Dublin,

Fine Art Print Residency Award 2022

Application Date: Thursday 28^th July 2022, 4pm- Portfolio Submission

Graphic Studio Dublin and Fingal County Council are delighted to be able to award two Fine Art Print Residencies in 2022. These 2-week residencies are open to professional artists at any stage in their career, working in any discipline, who are interested in exploring print processes:

Further information is included on each application form, or if required, from Graphic Studio Dublin- email info@graphicstudiodublin.com

For further information on  the Fingal residencies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLgLgKF7bnI

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.

This is the eleventh year of this residency. Previous recipients include Anna Hryniewicz & Naomi Taitz Duffy in 2021 and James English & Niall de Buitlear in 2020.

This 2-week residency will offer to a professional artist at any stage of their career, in any discipline, but who is interested in exploring print processes, the opportunity to make a fine art print with the guidance and assistance of a Master Printer at Graphic Studio Dublin. The residency will provide an ideal environment for the development of a creative project in printmaking and an opportunity to network with other artists. The artist will produce two finished prints, a limited edition of which will be completed for the artist by the studio. The work will be displayed along with members’ work in Graphic Studio Gallery during the following year.

Criteria: The applicant must be an professional artist at any stage in their career with an interest in printmaking. No printmaking experience is necessary. To be eligible to apply applicants must have been brought up, have studied, or currently reside in Fingal County Council administrative area.

2022 Fingal GSD Application Form Print Residency

2. Graphic Studio Dublin – Expanded Print Residency

Postgraduate Fine Art Print Award 2022

Application Date: Friday 29th July, 4pm- Digital Submission

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

Please use Postgrad Expanded Print residency in the subject line.

Postgraduate award

Graphic Studio Dublin’s new Postgraduate Award offers a place on our Expanded Print Residency programme to a postgraduate working in any artform; visual arts, theatre, creative writing, film etc.

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.

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.

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 visual 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 2020 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.