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Open Submission Print Show at Limerick Printmakers

Date: 16 July – 3 August 2011

Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 11am to 5.30pm and Saturday 10am to 4pm

Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery are delighted to announce both the launch of the Open Submission Print Show and the launch of their new premises at no. 5 Sarsfield Street (formerly O’Sullivan Shoes) on Thursday 14th July at 8pm. All are welcome.

The Open Submission Print Show has been an annual event at Limerick Printmakers for the last seven years and has consistently attracted work from the best printmakers both nationally and internationally. This year has seen over 200 individual artworks sent from all over the world making the job of selecting the work extremely hard. Cork based printmaker Andrew Boyle was invited to select the show and was thrilled with the quality of the work and the response from so many artists.

Anyone visiting the exhibition will see a range of work on display from portraits to landscapes, abstract pieces to conceptual, black and white to full colour, large and small. Derek O’Sullivans zinc etched ‘My repeated failures linger around me like the smell of dead fish’ are the actual etched metals plates presented on the floor of the gallery so that you can walk around and crouch down to see them. German artist Elisabeth Eisbein is showing large monochrome lithographs which contrast against Laura Butler’s tiny green and cream abstract collographs. From the tradional such as Aoife Laytons stunning mezzotint of a swan to Orlagh Spain’s silkscreen and mixed media piece consisting of an archaelogical type image of a cockroach which is then nailed to a salvaged wood assemblage, there is something for everyone in this exhibition.

Other artists slected, to name a few are Jacqui Askew, Orla Bates, Lisa Dunne, Delemaire, Sinead Dineen, Monika Crowley, Bill Hall, Nickie Hayden, Adam Kostrzewa, Suzannah O’Reilly, Brian O’Shea, Snooks Lee, David Lilburn, Des Mac Mahon, Andrzej Mazur, Sabina Siler Hudoklin and Robert Russell.

[Source: visualartists.ie]

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