Fingal Arts Office in partnership with Graphic Studios Dublin announces the two-residency award recipients for 2025.
Fingal County Council, in collaboration with Graphic Studio Dublin, are pleased to announce Fingal based artists Mark Ryan and Kriti Khatri as the recipients of the Fine Art Print Residency Award 2025.
Fingal County Council, in collaboration with Graphic Studio Dublin, are pleased to announce Fingal based artists Mark Ryan and Kriti Khatri as the recipients of the Fine Art Print Residency Award 2025.
This unique award offers two artists at any stage of their career in any art discipline to explore the print making process. Mark Ryan and Kriti Khatri will have the opportunity to make a fine art print with the guidance and assistance of a Master Printer and the team at Graphic Studio Dublin over two weeks.
The residency will provide an ideal environment for the development of a creative project in printmaking and an opportunity to network with other artists.
Fingal County Council Arts officer Sarah O’Neil commented “We are delighted to hear Kriti Khatri and Mark Ryan have been selected to patriciate in the Graphic Studio Dublin fine art print residency award for 2025. Both artists work in the medium of sculpture, and we are intrigued to see how this residency will respond and help develop their creative practices through the medium of print.”
On receiving the award, Kriti Khatri said “I’m truly honoured to receive the Fingal County Council and Graphic Studio Dublin fine art Print residency award. This opportunity offers me the space to explore the intersection of printmaking and material form, and to deepen my engagement with surface, process, and storytelling. I look forward to learning from the master printmakers and expanding my practice through this residency.”
Recipient Mark Ryan added “I am delighted to be selected. The Fingal County Council and Graphic Studio Dublin fine art Print residency award will allow me to take risks and pursue new approaches, learn new methodologies and mediums to explore my ideas. It will allow me explore my concepts and my approaches in a completely different medium. I have no fixed idea of outcomes. I am not proposing anything concrete for the residency but a willingness to be experimental and immerse myself in the process of printmaking.”
Image Caption: Work by Kriti Khatri
About the artists:
Kriti Khatri is a visual artist and art educator based in Lusk, North County Dublin. Her multidisciplinary practice is rooted in materials-based exploration and hands-on making, spanning drawing, clay, fibre, and experimental print processes such as cyanotype and linocut. With a background in sculpture and design, her work explores memory, materiality, and the quiet narratives embedded in everyday rituals. She holds degrees in Fine Art (Sculpture) and Master’s in Design (Ceramic and Glass Design) from India and recently completed a Professional Master of Education (Art and Design) at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin. Kriti also facilitates creative workshops in community and adult education settings across Fingal.
Image caption: Farmland line drawing 1 by Mark Ryan
Mark Ryan is a Dublin based sculptor. He studied and graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. 1981 – 1986 He works in a variety of materials including clay, plaster, jesmonite, steel, stainless steel and bronze. He welds, folds and casts. The scale of his work varies from small scale intimate works to large scale sculptures in the public realm. The starting point for his work is his connection with and his response to his immediate environment. As a sculptor he draws in three dimensions. Some works are spatial while others are more contemplative. His fascination is with form, texture and the contrast of scale and finish. His large scale works tend to have calligraphic qualities, which concentrates on capturing volume and space, with the lightest touch and the balancing of positive and negative spaces. This is often achieved by forming materials through a process of rolling or folding. His work is included in many national and international collections.
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.
For more information, please see:
www.fingalarts.ie
www.fingal.ie/arts
https://graphicstudiodublin.com