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IMPRESSIONS OF YOUR CITY

Venue: Cork Opera House, Emmet Place, Cork

Date: 1st February—31st March

An exhibition of large-scale relief prints from the Road Roller Print Event

Artist members of Cork Printmakers, Brian Barry, Sean Hanrahan, Fiona Kelly and Peter McMorris; first year students from CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, and Access with Design students from Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa.

On the 27 November 2010, in the old Sawmills site on Copley Street, seven large-scale linoleum blocks up to 6ft x 3.3ft (180cm x 100cm), were inked-up and printed manually using a 2.5 ton Industrial Road Roller. Each inked-up linoleum block was placed ground level, and paper or cotton material, placed on top, which was then covered by a rubber blanket. The Road Roller was driven over each block to impress the cut image, providing the pressure of a traditional printing press.

Cork Opera House is proud to present these large-scale ‘Road Roller’ prints to the public.

The participating artists and students of art based their subject matter on the theme Impressions of Your City. Fiona Kelly’s large-scale relief is a series of disconnected jigsaw puzzle pieces which contain a fragmented image of a ghost estate. Brian Barry has based his linocut on The Echo Boy, (Michael O’Regan), to celebrate his 50th anniversary selling the newspaper from Patrick Street.
Sean Hanrahan’s image is of a busker playing on the streets of Cork. Peter McMorris engaged with the Maritime history of Cork. He mapped the waterways from Roches Point into the city, following the Ocean to City Race route. Students from CIT Crawford College of Art & Design created a montage of places of Cork City while students from Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa created an image of the statue of
the Echo Boy which is on Patrick’s Street.

The project took place in association with Art Trail 10 and has been funded by Cork City Council Arts Office Project Scheme.

Cork Printmakers also wish to acknowledge the support of the Arts Council.

Founded in 1991, Cork Printmakers was set up to meet the needs of both established and emerging Cork-based artist printmakers with no access to workshop facilities. The workshop supports a high standard of printmaking and fosters excellence and innovation in contemporary print. It serves artists in the development of their professional practice and promotes opportunities through exhibition and exchange/networking both nationally and internationally. Public appreciation and experience of printmaking is actively promoted through innovative education programmes which span all ages.

[Source: www.corkprintmakers.ie/]

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