Residency: Inter-studio residency 2025 recipients announced

Ban-Eee-Ukt (Lynn Marie Dennehy & Nic Flanagan)

Kate MacDonald

Rachael Merrigan

Emma Scully

Comhghairdeas mór to all four artists! Please give the resident artists a warm welcome when they arrive in your studio later this year. Here is what the artists will be up to during their residencies: 

Cork Printmakers members Ban-Eee-Ukt (Lynn Marie Dennehy & Nic Flanagan) will be resident artists at Black Church Print Studio. Their project Bread & Butter explores acts of simple resilience in day-to-day life, focusing on the Irish ability to find strength in struggle and comedy in crisis. They plan to use Risograph printing as a tool for democratic information sharing, historically tied to Irish resistance movements, by creating a small-scale printed object in the form of a zine, map, or other format. 

Limerick Printmakers member Kate MacDonald will be resident artist at Graphic Studio Dublin. She is excited to explore new lead and wood types at Graphic Studio Dublin. Kate intends to work on small and large scales, approaching printmaking as a playful, layered collage process. Inspired by William Kentridge’s ‘Self Portrait as a Coffee Pot’ (on show during the Venice Biennale 2024), which blends imagery, text, and dialogue, she wishes to experiment with overlapping layers and multiple elements in her work.

Graphic Studio Dublin member Rachel Merrigan will be resident artist at Limerick Printmakers, where she plans to use the silk screen facilities in order to produce some large format prints and looks forward to developing her practice using the presses available at Limerick Printmakers. 

Finally Graphic Studio Dublin member Emma Scully will be resident artist at Cork Printmakers to continue her body of work exploring motherhood, femininity, and Irish mythology by creating a series of etchings on paper, incorporating hard and soft ground, aquatint and spitbite etching techniques. These autobiographical works examine her indecision around motherhood and concerns about fertility. 

The PNI Inter-Studio residency has grown into a vital annual opportunity for studio members to immerse themselves in a new studio environment. In addition, the residency enriches the host studios, as it benefits from the diverse knowledge and creative practices brought by the visiting artists. This mutual exchange of skills and perspectives is an important objective of Print Network Ireland.