Graphic Studio Dublin, Fine Art Printmakers, was established in 1960 to teach traditional printmaking skills (then unavailable in Irish art colleges), and to provide studios and technical assistance to artists to make fine art prints. Its five founders were Patrick Hickey, Leslie MacWeeney, Liam Miller, Elizabeth Rivers and Anne Yeats. Since 2007 the studios are housed in a stunning converted granary building: Distillery House, North Circular Road, Dublin 1. Its gallery, Graphic Studio Gallery, opened in 1988 in Cope Street, Temple Bar and has become an essential cultural feature of the city. The Gallery was established to promote fine-art printmaking in Ireland and abroad, to educate the public about fine art printmaking, and to exhibit and sell fine art prints on behalf of our studio members and gallery artists. It showcases up to 11 national and international fine art print exhibitions annually, as well as hosting talks and print demonstrations. Graphic Studio Dublin facilitates the following print techniques: etching, lithography, linocut, drypoint, carborundum, woodblock, aquatint, photo etching, blind embossing, collography and mezzotint. Technical assistance and education of artist members in the above printmaking techniques is core to our ethos. The Visiting Artists programme, operated by Graphic Studio Dublin has made one of the most important contributions to the development of Irish printmaking over the last ten years. Under this scheme, Maser, Alice Maher, Mary Lohan, Gwen O'Dowd, Richard Gorman, William Crozier, Hughie O’Donohue, Tony O’Malley have been among many other renowned artists, who sometimes have little or no experience of printmaking, but are very well-known artists, are invited to work with a trained technician, under the guidance of our master printer, to produce an edition of prints that are showcased at the gallery. Gallery website: http://www.graphicstudiodublin.com/
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