Kildare art studio leads the way for 25 years

In 1998, a group of artists, led by Margaret Becker, founded the Leinster Printmaking Studio in a small premises in Clane.

Over the years the studio grew and flourished, increasing the membership, facilitating courses, collaborating with other studios, nationally and internationally, as well as organising exhibitions.

This year the studio celebrates its jubilee with an all-embracing exhibition echoing the many events and collaborations over the past 25 years. The Studio is particularly drawn to exploring visual aspects of literature.

Members and guests have responded to Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, (2015), the wonderful collection of poems in An Duanaire, 1600-1900, Poems of the Dispossessed, edited by Seán Ó Tuama, (2017) and more recently to the poems of the late Séamus Heaney in “LPS Responds to Séamus Heaney” (2019) which initially opened at a small festival in Italy!

Oidhreacht or Heritage was the title of their most recent exhibition 2021.

The anniversary exhibition is open from Tuesday to Saturdays until June 2. and by appointment

Artists feattured in "ECHOS" exhibition include Margaret Becker, Robert Russell, Nickie Hayden, James McCreary, Paul Roy, Don Braisby, Adrienne Symes, Melissa Cherry, Pamela de Bri, Burcu Dundar, Jane Ellis, William Finnie, Mir Fitzgerald, John Fogarty, Sylvia Hemmingway, Val Hennigan, Bethan Hodgson, Romy Hogan, Rebecca Homfray, Jo Howard, Eileen Keane, Hilary Kinahan, Michael lyons, Felicity McCartan, Martina McDonald, Mary McGrath, Nuala O’Dea, Gay O’Neill, Frank Rafter, Regina Richardson, Deirdre Shanley, Katherine Smits, Michelle Sweetman, and Peter van der Burgt. Further information on www.kilcockartgallery.ie