Printmakers Residency
Limerick, Ireland
15 -24 October 2018
organizers: Limerick Institute of Technology -Limerick School of Arts & Design and Limerick Printmakers

About the residency:
Over the course of the 10-day residency, the resident printmakers have been asked to respond to text pieces from de Beauvoir’s Second Sex book and to then produce 2 separate pieces of work in an edition of 15 each. Two artists born in or resident in Ireland have been selected to join 8 other international printmakers in Limerick, Ireland for the duration of the residency. Participants in this programme received travel, accommodation, stipend, materials, studio equipment & facilities usage and technical and administrative support.

Participating artists:
Haya Blanco(Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1984), Fernanda Álvarez Jimenez (Mexico D.C., 1967), Marta Fermín (Oviedo, Spain, 1973), Jo Kelley (United Kingdom, 1955), Aoiffe Barret (Ireland, 1984), Audrey Potrat (Bourgogne, France), Louise Mendoche (Valence, France, 1984), Melinda Kostelac (Rijeka, Croatia, 1968), Mina Fina (Slovenia, 1978) and Neringa Žukauskaitė (Lithuania, 1975).

Video: Simon O’ Donnell for Limerick Printmakers

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