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A sincere thank you to all the print partners who joined us in late September for our inaugural print partners’ webinar. Designed for printmaking organisations, workshop providers, and groups, the session focused on fostering connections, driving collaboration, and building future partnerships across the printmaking and wider visual arts sectors.

Key discussions highlighted green and sustainable printmaking practices alongside opportunities for ongoing collaboration. All invited organisations are featured on our Printmaking in Ireland map.

PNI looks forward to continuing these dialogue-building efforts and connecting even more printmaking communities in the future.

We are also delighted to have two new print partners added to our Printmaking in Ireland Map @lismorecastlearts and @justartitgalway. The map can be viewed on our website.

@artscouncilireland @blackchurchprint @cloandcoprintmaking @corkprintmakers @creativespark_printstudio @customhousewestport @graphicstudiodublin @grilsegallery @kellsprintingworks @leinsterprintstudio @limerickprintmakers @manorhamiltonprintgroup @nationalprintmuseum @renemullin_ @_pulled_ @thegentianpress

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We’re excited to share a new opportunity for Registered Users of our Print Studio.

Applications are now open for the Print Network Ireland (@printnetworkireland) International Residency Exchange Programme 2026 – 2027. This two-week residency will take place at Limerick Printmakers (@limerickprintmakers), Ireland, and offers artists the opportunity to develop their practice within a dynamic international environment while engaging with Limerick’s rich cultural and artistic landscape.

Head to our website to find out more. To apply you must be a current Registered User of DCA Print Studio - details of how to join can also be found on our website.

This opportunity is supported through the Arts Council International Residency Initiative Scheme (@artscouncilireland). Two people working in Limerick Printmakers

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Spacecraft present; Finance Workshop ‘Money, Shame & The Arts’ with Viva Dean @vivadean

Date: 5th Oct
Venue: Limerick Printmakers
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Price: €7 there is a limited number of tickets available

Tickets can be purchased on ‘spacecraft artist studios’ Eventbrite or trough the linker.ee in our bio

Money, Shame & The Arts

This is a frank and practical workshop

How do we think about & manage money as artists in Ireland in 2026/7

both personally and professionally (if there’s a difference)

you will be asked about what you earn, what you charge, where you learned/didn’t learn to budget, how you split bills with friends and lovers

Viva will share some of their personal approaches informed by years of teaching maths and facilitating people through things they are scared to do.

Viva Dean is an artist, facilitator and researcher at Queen’s University Belfast investigating gendered relationships to technology and sound.
They have been a full-time, funded artist for the last 4 consecutive years,
They are experienced with managing large project budgets, tax reporting, contracting other artists for work... and they taught maths for 6 years

This workshop is being hosted by Spacecraft studios as part of our professional development program, that has been funded by the arts council of Ireland. Thank you to Limerick print makers for allowing us to host this workshop in there space. Image by @juliemcloughlin

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We all have stories to share! Enable Ireland service owners and staff celebrated this creativity and individuality when they participated in @limerickzinefest.

They all created their own imaginative and inspiring zines on topics from Seals to Hurling to the Mental Health of a Wheelchair User.

The annual festival is about the power of DIY culture and independent publishing. @limerickprintmakers were also there to offer everyone a chance to try screenprinting and letterpress!

Here are some of Limerick Adult Services with their zines. Including Colette Condon with her Zine on Boccia, Rebecca Hannan with ‘I Love Shopping’, Anthony Quinlivan with ‘Garden’, Deirdre Corry with ‘Seals’, and Mary Keogh with ‘Disco’.

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We see you tonight: 8pm @dancelimerick for session 1.

One final addition to tonight is a stance and pledge to stand again prejudice and discrimination, by remembering our past so we don’t repeat it! We have carefully crafted “more dogs, more black, more irish” with the help of the talented @shorty_rawedge and @limerickprintmakers for making the screen for the print. T-shirt is on a first come first serve basis, but we will have this in all of our future event going forwards.This will be the message we want to put out in our word but most importantly for us as humans to remember deep within our HeARTS 💚. #fightagaisntinjustice

PRE-TEXT: The phrase “No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs” describes discriminatory signs and rules that reportedly appeared in windows and doors of boarding houses, pubs, and hotels in post-World War II Britain during the 1950s and 1960s.

Context: Co Founder @tobiomoteso and Creative Manager @isac_with1a were both attacked with discriminatory intent 5 months ago when going to set up for our annual festival in Limerick City on a Saturday morning which resulted in life altering injuries both physically and psychologically.

Note: The first line of law enforcement action if you have suffered from similar circumstances is to reference “ Criminal Justice Hate Offences Act 2024”.

#unity #peace #fun

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Print Network Ireland is part of the VAI café today at VAI Get Together 2026 at TU Dublin, Grangegorman! The Cafe is a vital centre of Get Together each year, featuring stands from resource organisations that support artists’ careers, including galleries, funders, studios, colleges, archives, and more.

The theme this year is Life: being a visual artist.

Come say hi - we’d love to connect.

#ATrustedSpace #VAGetTogether2026 #VisualArtistsIreland #printnetworkireland @printnetworkireland @visualartistsireland @artscouncilireland @tudublin

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Just home from the launch of this powerful exhibition with equally powerful opening words by Rosemary Joyce and the artist/printnaker Chris Celery.Please do yourself a favour and go see this wonderful work.
#irishartist # printmaker

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LZF3 was one for the books!💥🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️💥

Third time lucky, or third time’s a charm, these are the popular variants of the common notions surrounding the power of the third attempt, apparently rooting from the Latin phrase “omne trium perfectum” which translates to “everything that comes in threes is perfect/complete” (if Reddit is to be believed).

And I would have to agree with the first part (and keep my fingers crossed that the second interpretation (completion) is far off in the distance). It did feel perfect. From the echoes of footsteps and chatter and laughter that filled St. John’s Pavilion for two straight days spread out like a great invisible net of love (📸 1-10, @itss.yana98 )

To the interactive making/art communion taking place at:

•our artist residency at @studiosaol featuring the inimitable @yaknook (🤳14-17 @caoilfhinnart )

•🔻Good Things Come in Triangular Zines🔺 by @corkzinefest ‘s own @an_na_mar

•our annual open makers session which was made even better this year by an interactive performance by @icebearnoise (scans of the work to come!)

•and our annual screenprinting/letterpress workshop by the @limerickprintmakers (📸 1: @itss.yana98 )

We are grateful to so many folks for being part of this festival and helping us bring something invigorating to Limerick City’s art and literature scene.

To start with, thank you to our wonderful crew of vendors who not only brought incredible work with them to offer the general public, but who burn with the same passion for the printed image and the printed word.

Thank you to Anouk, Annie, Eilís, and Limerick Printmakers for making our programme so enjoyable and inviting.

Thank you to our wonderful volunteers who were a new addition this year and a tremendous help.

Thank you to our silent partners: our parents, partners, and friends who are with us every step of the way, and whose kindness and generosity of spirit we could not do without.

And of course, thank you, Limerick! For showing up and showing out—we wouldn’t be here without you.

We love you all, and thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Sincerely,

Tiffany, Caoilfhinn, and Daithí
The Limerick Zine Fest Team

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I went to @limerickzinefest 2026 and all I got is this Tshirt.. and an armful of brilliant zines and prints and stickers and books and some seriously cool new friends and meaningful conversations and real laughs and hopes and insights and a much much needed refreshment of a sense of community. Such rapture.

Thanks lads - it was superb! 🪷 Until next time 🫶

#surelook #limerickzinefest #community #printisking #ireland

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‘Celtic Twilight’
4 collagraph collage, edition of 6
This edition was created during the final stage of my residency at Limerick Printmakers. The work celebrates, whilst also questioning, the contemporary revival and reinterpretation of Irish culture. It brings together cultural references from different periods of Irish history, from the Neolithic carvings of Knowth to the more recently established symbolism associated with the Claddagh, attributed to Galway goldsmith Richard Joyce.
The phone is placed alongside these historic symbols as a contemporary object of cultural significance. The contrast is deliberate, ancient stones and traditional motifs are positioned against a device that has become almost inseparable from everyday life. While making the print, I became increasingly aware of the extent to which we depend on phones, and how this dependence cannot simply be understood as an individual failing. Within modern Western society, a smartphone can provide access to essential services, community, employment, information and entertainment. At the same time, these functions can encourage dependency and a disconnect to the natural world.
The work also considers the role of social media in the recent revival of Irish and Celtic imagery. Platforms have made historical patterns, symbols and crafts more visible and accessible, allowing them to be rediscovered, reproduced and reinterpreted on an enormous scale. I find this development both fascinating and uncanny. Traditions that originated in very different social, religious and cultural contexts now circulate through the same digital spaces that shape modern life.
The print is ultimately concerned with this contradiction but also the similarities that is the complexity of human experience.
I still plan on posting some more about my residency but for now I must thank @limerickprintmakers for the surreal opportunity they awarded me last year. I still can’t believe I was chosen and will be forever grateful. I would highly recommend anyone join their community in whatever way you can. A beautiful studio full of wonderful people. ❤️

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Don’t forget! Opening 3pm 03/09 LSAD. The MA students’ final exhibition …. one not to be missed! Viewing from 31/08 to 08/09

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expose a screen with me
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#screenprint #silkscreen #art

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