First Edition Print Symposium

Save the Date! Cork Printmakers presents FIRST EDITION A Print Symposium at Millennium Hall, City Hall, Cork Multiple Dimensions: Exploring Printmaking as an expanded practice in contemporary visual culture. Speakers include: *Susan Tallman, Editor in Chief, Art in Print, Chicago, USA *Michael Kempson, Convenor of Printmaking Studies & Director of Cicada Press, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia *Dr. Angela Griffith, History of Art & Architecture Department, Trinity College, Dublin *Jason Urban & Leslie Mutchler, both of The University of Texas, Austin, USA. Jason Urban is also Co-Editor of Printeresting.org, an award winning online resource for print miscellany. * Dr. Carinna Parraman, Professor in Design & Colour Print, UWE, Bristol; Co-Director, Centre for Fine Print Research (IMPACT is the CFPR's main Symposia) & MANY MORE Also featuring a trail of exhibitions in six venues across Cork City Centre. Presented as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2017 Tickets range from €40 - €65. Available from Cork Midsummer Festival from Monday April 3rd - www.corkmidsummer.com

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Join us tonight for the opening of Craig Carry's exhibition 'Music Prints' at 6pm!

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We are very excited about the Opening of Craig Carry's exhibition 'MUSIC PRINTS' at 6pm tomorrow, Wed 8th March in our Print Showroom. Craig work is a unique fusion of graphic design, a skilful use of screen-printing and a love of music!

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Music Prints, an exhibition by Craig Carry

Music Prints is a solo exhibition by Craig Carry, at Cork Printmakers’ Print Showroom, which will be on display from 9th – 31st March 2017. It features a series of limited edition hand-pulled screen-prints, resulting from both commission and personal-based work. The work unites Craig’s professional background in graphic design and a lifelong passion for music. In 2012, he set up the music website Fractured Air (www.fracturedair.com) with his twin brother Mark, which has to-date featured regular contributions from an array of artists, including: Nils Frahm, Julia Kent, Hauschka and Cillian Murphy. In fact, it was the Cork-born actor Murphy who had initially encouraged the idea of establishing a music website to begin with. Record labels such as Iceland’s Bedroom Community, London’s Erased Tapes Records and Norway’s Smalltown Supersound have also been regularly featured on the site, which has also been featured at various platforms in the past including: the award winning Paris-based music website La Blogothèque; Galway International Arts Festival and IMMA Rising, Dublin. Craig ’s artwork has been used for many musicians in the independent music scene – both nationally and internationally – including Icelandic group Amiina; This Is How We Fly; Irish composers Seán Mac Erlaine and Clang Sayne – while an ongoing collaboration with iconic West Cork-based music venue Connolly’s Of Leap has been formed, since the venue’s recent reopening. Other recent commissions include; cover artwork for the iconic 'American Roots' music magazine 'No Depression’s' summer 2017 and a series of new prints for 'Stargaze' (de Ridder’s modern classical music collective), German conductor André de Ridder, at the Volksbühne in Berlin. These prints are often created with the use of recurring motifs, through visual puns in limited colour palettes, while a combination of digital and hand-crafted artwork forms the basis of the imagery. Craig Carry is a full-time member of Cork Printmakers and is based in Cork. More information available at http://craigcarry.net/ Cork Printmakers’ Opening hours: Monday – Friday, 9.30am – 5.30pm, closed for lunch from 1 – 2pm. Cork Printmakers, Wandesford Quay, Clarke’s Bridge, Cork City, T12 E26D Tel; (021) 4322422, email: info@corkprintmakers.ie, Website: www.corkprintmakers.ie

Craig Carry

Craig Carry

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Some great results on our photopolymer printmaking workshop last weekend with tutor Johnny Bugler. Artwork by Andrew Kelly, Cecilia d'Alessandro, Dorothy Kehoe and Ellen Barrett.

Minister Humphreys announces capital funding of more than €9m for arts and cultural centres | Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

We are delighted that Wandesford Quay was successful with this major funding application. It will hugely benefit the artists at Cork Printmakers & Backwater Artists' Group into the future! http://www.ahrrga.gov.ie/minister-humphreys-announces-capital-funding-of-more-than-e9m-for-arts-and-cultural-centres/

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Update on our course availability: 2 places on Tuesday evening Screen-printing (beg. 21 Feb); 1 place on Thursday morning Lithography course (beg. 2 March), 1 place on Wednesday evening Etching course (beg. 15 March), 2 places on Photopolymer Printmaking weekend course (25 & 26 Feb). Full info on our website, call 021 4322422 or email info@corkprintmakers to book your place.

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