Applications open for Fingal County Council in partnership with Graphic Studio Dublin Fine Art Print Residency award 2025/2026
Fingal County Council, in partnership with Graphic Studio Dublin, are offering two Fine-Art Print Residencies. It is planned that the two-week residencies will take place in Autumn/Winter 2025/2026 at a date to be agreed with the artists.
This 2-week residency is open to professional artists at any stage of their careers, in any discipline, but who are interested in exploring print processes. It offers professional artists the opportunity to make a fine art print with the guidance and assistance of a Master Printer and the team 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 recipients will work over the two-week period with the Master Printer and a professional printing team, exploring printmaking and printing a small edition, using a pre-prepared drawing or image as a starting point. The work may be displayed along with members’ work in Graphic Studio Gallery the following year.
Fingal County Council Arts Officer, Sarah O’Neil commented “The Graphic Studio Dublin Fine Art Print residency represents an opportunity to connect people and ideas, one of our strategic goals. Learning from a master printmaker offers artists a unique opportunity to develop their creative practice.”
The professional aims and objectives of the successful candidate will be continually assessed during the residency to ensure the artist gains the maximum benefit from their time. The collaborative nature of being part of a collective print studio and working with a professional printmaker will be of enormous assistance to the artist.
To be eligible to apply applicants must have been brought up, have studied, or currently reside in Fingal County administrative area. No printmaking experience is necessary to avail of this residency.
Completed Applications will be accepted by email to: <span>[email protected]
Link to application: 2025-Fingal-GSD-Application-Print-Residency.pdf
Previous recipients include Jack Pierce and Beata Piekarska Daly in 2024:
Beata Piekarska-Daly:
Beata Piekarska-Daly is a Polish-born, Fingal-based visual artist. Her practice seeks a symbiosis between contemporary art and living, through connecting polymorphic and hybrid methodologies consisting of time-based installations, painting, video performance and societal involvement. Consideration is given to immersion in fluidity of form, sustainable materiality, and the natural environment.
Beata Piekarska-Daly is a recipient of the 2022 Fingal County Council Visual Arts Award, 2021/2022 Art Council Ireland Agility Award, 2021 Arts Council Ireland Professional Development Award. Her work is represented in the OPW collection and private collection across Ireland, Europe, United States and Australia.
Jack Pierce:
Jack Pierce is a Dublin-based, multi-disciplinary, artist and educator from Fingal, specializing in textile art. Their practice integrates costume, sculpture, and paint to explore themes of queerness, Irish identity, and the current ecological crisis. They are driven by material processes and experimentation, interpreting, altering, and reimagining the world through play. Currently based in La Catedral studios, Pierce is working on an Agility Award-supported project titled ‘Look Up What’s Lost.’ This project draws from Irish mythology to examine the paradox of a country that once developed laws, alphabets, and culture around trees, yet is now the most deforested country in Europe.
Their practice questions societal norms and gender roles, aiming to open up conversations about our future and our place in it. Current work builds on themes explored in college while incorporating native Irish plants and found materials to explore what was and what may be
About Graphic Studio Dublin:
Graphic Studio Dublin was established in 1960 to facilitate and teach the medium of printmaking to express artistic ideas, and to facilitate the development of successful working practices for artists through all stages of their careers. We provide printmaking facilities and technical assistance in a supportive working environment enabling artists to develop successful working practices, and to engage with the medium of printmaking to extend their existing art practices. Graphic Studio Dublin facilitates the following print techniques: etching, lithography, linocut, drypoint, carborundum, woodblock, aquatint, blind embossing, collography, letterpress, mezzotint, photo intaglio and screen print.
It is the only print studio in Ireland with a dedicated gallery space that promotes the medium and presents the best of Irish printmaking, through gallery and online exhibitions.
Completed Applications will be accepted by email to: <span>[email protected]</span>
Link to application: 2025-Fingal-GSD-Application-Print-Residency.pdf
For more information, please see:
www.fingalarts.ie
www.fingal.ie/arts