OPEN SUBMISSION 2012 application forms are now available to download here!

Check out a chance to win a full 10 year anniversary box set here!

NEW range of Printmaking Courses for Adults now online!

 

Images (l-r) New premises at 5a Sarsfield Street; Work by Eoin Barry at the Object/ive Obsessions exhibition; New range of hand printed ceramic platesprinted at the studios

Limerick Printmakers Studio & Gallery provide facilities for artists to make prints using a variety of  methods including etching, lithography, silkscreen, relief and monoprint. Artists join on a membership basis and can avail of various different levels of access from daily to yearly. The option of 24 hour access is also available within the yearly membership. Members have added benefits which you will find in the membership section. The establishment of the studio in Limerick means  that artists can work freely without having to leave the area altogether or for long periods of time.  It is unique to the Mid West Region in that the only other studios in Ireland are over 60 miles away and located in Dublin, Galway, Kildare and Cork. At present there are approx 40 members working in the studio. Limerick Printmakers also provide opportunities for the general public in the form of classes for adults and children, workshops and demonstrations in schools and other venues. A regular contemporary exhibition programme provides a much-needed venue for artists to exhibit their work as well as introducing and promoting different artwork and  methods to the general public. Limerick Printmakers host exhibitions in a variety of mediums on a monthly basis! If your interested in buying or commissioning artworks form our studio members check out our buying artwork and commissions pages!  The Open Submission Print show has now become an annual event where artists are asked by open call to submit up to three prints, any scale andmedium as long as they contain an element of printmaking.  Prints have been shown from Japan, America, Canada, Wales, Belgium and all over Ireland. Previous selectors include Cóilín Murray, Chris Doswell and Siobhan Piercy, Suzannah O'Reilly and Jim Sheehy.  2011 has seen Limerick Printmakers come together with Contact Studios, Like Studios, Faber Studios, Raggle Taggle Consortium and Wickam Street Studios to hold C: Inside,  open days of the visual arts and a series of evening events in Limerick City from in May.  This two-day event supported Riverfest, Limericks biggest annual event designed to showcase and celebrate all that's great about limerick city, from the resource of the river Shannon, to music, sporting, fashion, artistic, food communities and many more. Limerick Printmakers Studio & Gallery are designated a Regulrly Funded Organisation by the Arts Council and received their first revenue funding from the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon in 2003. This revenue funding was continued each year since then. Additional Arts Council Minor Capital Grants in 2004, 2005 and a major grant in 2006 for equipment and renovation have supported the development and progress of Limerick Printmakers facilities.

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