Limerick Printmakers Open Submission Print Show 2011

(L-R) Derek O'Sullivan, My repeated failures linger around me like the smell of dead fish, Zinc Etched Plates; Eimearjean McCormack, Bodywork, Four Plate Colour Etching; Orlagh Spain, Rigor, Silkscreen and Mixed Media.

Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery are delighted to announce both the launch of the Open Submission Print Show and the launch of their new premises at no. 5 Sarsfield Street (formerly O’Sullivan Shoes) on Thursday 14th July at 8pm.  All are welcome.

The Open Submission Print Show has been an annual event at Limerick Printmakers for the last seven years and has consistently attracted work from the best printmakers both nationally and internationally. Each year artists from around the world are asked to submit up to three works for the selection, all which have an element of printmaking in it. Traditional forms of printmaking like etching, lithography and silkscreen are popular and as Limerick Printmakers is very inclusive about what is considered printmaking anyone visiting the show can expect to see photography, digital print, print on ceramic and installation pieces too.

This year has seen over 200 individual artworks sent from all over the world making the job of selecting the work extremely hard. Cork based printmaker Andrew Boyle was invited to select the show and was thrilled with the quality of the work and the response from so many artists.

Anyone visiting the exhibition will see a range of work on display from portraits to landscapes, abstract pieces to conceptual, black and white to full colour, large and small. Derek O’Sullivans zinc etched ‘My repeated failures linger around me like the smell of dead fish’ are the actual etched metals plates presented on the floor of the gallery so that you can walk around and crouch down to see them. German artist Elisabeth Eisbein is showing large monochrome lithographs which contrast against Laura Butler’s tiny green and cream abstract collographs. From the tradional such as Aoife Laytons stunning mezzotint of a swan ‘November’ to Orlagh Spain’s silkscreen and mixed media piece ‘Rigor’ consisting of an archaelogical type image of a cockroach which is then nailed to a salvaged wood assemblage, there is something for everyone in this exhibition.

The 56 selected artists from Ireland, Northern Ireland, UK, Spain, France, Germany and Slovenia are Jackie Askew, Eoin Barry, Orla Bates, Norah Brennan, Siobhan Burke, Laura Butler, Mike Byrne, Marie Connole, Monika Crowley, Alan Crowley, Ivan Daly, Alejandro Del Rio Etayo, Helene Delmaire, Sinead Dineen, Aisling Dolan, Lisa Dunne, Joe Dunne, Susan Early, Elisabeth Eisbein, Kate Fahey, Brian Fitzgerald, Paula Fitzpatrick, Deirdre Gallagher, Pauline Goggin, Bill Hall, Nickie Hayden, Rebecca Homfray, Lilian Ingram, Claudia Keegan, Jenna Kirkwood, Adam Kostrzewa, Aoife Layton, Dorothy Ledwith, Snooks Lee, David Lilburn, Des Mac Mahon, Bernadette Madden, Andrzej Mazur, Georgia McBride, Eilish McCann, Eimearjean McCormack, Nicole McKenna, Jane Murtagh, Martina Navratilova, Lynn O'Loughlin, Derek O'Sullivan, Suzannah O'Reilly, Brian O'Shea, Robin Parmer, Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Annamie Pretorius, Fiona Quill, Susie Quinn, Sarah Rogers, Robert Russell, Orlagh Spain and Benita Stoney.

If your coming to see the exhibition this year you will also have the chance of being the first people to visit the Limerick Printmakers Studio & Gallery’s new premises at 5 Sarsfield Street. The opening night will be the official launch of the new space which is a temporary home until Limerick Printmakers longterm home at No 3 St Johns Square is ready. Both the temporary home at Sarsfield Street and St. Johns Square have been facilitated by Limerick City Council. Limerick Printmakers would also like to acknowledge the support and generosity of Joe Buckley, as without him Limerick Printmakers would not exist today.

The exhibition will run until 3rd August 2011. For further information on this exhibition, please contact Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery at the details below. The gallery and studio at No. 5 Sarsfield Street is open Tuesday to Friday 11am to 5.30pm and Saturday 10am to 4pm.

Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery Ltd. acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council.