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Ivan Armstrong
Ivan Armstrong was trained as a printmaker and painter in Belfast, and in art education in London. After undertaking research at the University of Wales he set up a post-graduate department of art education in Malaysia.
As a young artist he exhibited widely and on his return to Northern Ireland he joined the staff of the Arts Council from which he took early retirement in January 2006.
He was a member of the Belfast Print Workshop in the 1980’s and since January 2006 has returned full time to printmaking. |
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Corrina Askin
Corrina Askin is an artist who lives in Northern Ireland, having spent time in London, New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. She works in animation and children's book illustration as well as print making.
She studied at the Royal College of Art in London and has won many awards and accolades for her work including awards at the Bologna Book Fair in 2007 and 2005, The Bisto Award for Illustration and the Cle Publishing Award.
Corrina has work in many public and private collections including The House Of Lords, Ulster Television Group and The Hastings Hotel Group. |
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Robin Cordiner
Robin is one of the most widely known and collected fine artists working in Ireland today. He has developed a method of practice that is unique in his profession using multiple techniques in the construction of the final image. Each piece is available only in small, hand made limited editions. He has won numerous awards for his work which is housed in the permanent collections of many private and corporate collections. |
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Alison Fitzgerald
Alison FitzGerald studied Surface Pattern at the University of Ulster before becoming interested in print making. She has been teaching Art at Our Lady and St. Patrick’s College Knock in Belfast NI for the past 16 years and is a member of Belfast Print Workshop at Cotton Court.
Alison has exhibited printed works at group shows throughout Northern Ireland over the past 10 years.
Alison’s chosen medium is collograph print - printed mainly onto hand-made paper, which she sometimes makes herself. Often the printed ‘panels’ you see are connected and box framed. She doesn’t work in editions so each finished piece is unique. |
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Education
1985-1986: Manchester Polytechnic,Certificate in Visual Studies.
1986-1989: Staffordshire Polytechnic,B.A.(Hons.)
Fine Art.
1990-1991: Birmingham Polytechnic,P.G.C.E. Art and Design. |
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Valerie Giannandrea is based in Belfast and has been a member of Belfast Print Workshop since moving from London in 1997.
She works specifically on monotypes and works from and documents the life she sees around her. Recent work focuses on the still life as subject matter and in particular this work deals with the formal elements of composition, colour, pattern, form, surface, motion and gesture. The importance of image making is central in Valerie’s work and the technique of mono-printing suits her approach to art and allows her to work in a spontaneous and immediate manner.
A monotype is a form of printmaking where the artist rolls out or paints thick ink onto a hard, smooth surface (metal, glass or plastic). An image is then scratched or rubbed through the ink and paper laid on it. The plate is bathed, and the paper has pressure applied through a press, and the image is then “pulled” from the plate. The image always comes out in reverse. Unlike other forms of printmaking, monotypes are one-offs and are, as such, very close in nature to paintings.
Since her move to Northern Ireland, Valerie has exhibited widely with the Belfast Print Workshop, the Tom Caldwell Gallery in Belfast, the Loft Gallery, Hillsborough, the Davison Gallery, Hollywood and the Galway Arts Centre. |
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My print images from the last two decades have been influenced by my fascination with the ancient classical world of architecture and sculpture, both Greek and more especially, Roman civilization. Diplayed fragmented items have particularly interested me, especially the jumble and collected chaos in some older museums.
Colour has always been of paramount importance giving my work a personnal identity. A recent return to painting has also affected the manner in which I approach print- making , making them more decorative and less ‘collaged’. |
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Scottish-born Struan Hamilton is a well-known face on the Belfast arts scene. He arrived seven years ago to take up position in Belfast Print Workshop, an arts hub now based in the thriving Cathedral Quarter where he is the Manager as well as a practising artist.
A graduate of Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Struan came to Belfast via spells at Edinburgh and Dundee Print Workshops, and the world-famous Atelier Contrepoint, (formerly 17), in Paris, where he was assistant to its director, Hector Saunier.
Struan’s work can be found in public and private collections from the House of Lords to hospital trusts, and football clubs to the national arts council as well as local government councils. The 35-year old also boasts a healthy record of international exhibition. |
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My work is based on images of land with its own natural structures, sometimes with pieces placed there by people from pre-history up to the present. It may appear quite bleak. I like the idea that we can focus on a tiny piece of a large area and these views become part of the memories of those who were before us. |
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Raymond Henshaw is an artist who works across three mediums, painting, photography and printmaking. Where he explores ideas about how his immediate environment impresses upon him. Notions of physical spaces explored through an abstract lyricism, or social politic seen in his photographs and some prints. This has led to him becoming involved with a variety of divergent organisations. Over recent years he has been a member of Flaxart and Paragon studios, and currently Belfast Print Workshop, where he was a member of the board for the last five years. (2001-2006)
He studied in England, where he received a Ma and BA in Painting. He has received numerous awards from a variety of institutions including, The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, British Council, Irish Department of Foreign Affairs.
He has completed numerous commissions, most recently for Royal Hospitals Belfast, South East Belfast Trust and Belfast City Council.
His work has been exhibited throughout Ireland, Europe, Africa and USA including, Fenderesky Gallery, Old Museum, Queens University, Belfast, Project Arts Centre, & Original Print Gallery, Dublin, Ithaca, New York State. In Bag Factory Johannesburg, University of Cape Town and Free State University Bloemfontein, South Africa. At Cite Des Arte, Paris, Barcelona, in Berlin, and other locations chiefly across Europe. |
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Fiona Joyce joined the Belfast Print Workshop In 1997.
Her work has featured in numerous group shows including: RHA Annual and Banquet Show, RHA, Dublin; Victor Tracey Awards Show, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny; Model Arts Centre, Sligo; Leeds European Fine Art
Symposium, Leeds University; Verein fur Original Radierung, Munich, Germany; Contemporary Irish and Northern Irish female artists, Nevada Galleries, Las Vegas, USA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, USA , Big Print Exhibition, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast; Irish Arts Centre, New York, USA;
Impressions printmakers exhibition Galway Arts Centre and most recently Martha Street Studios in Winnipeg, Canada and Rediscover Northern Ireland show in Washington, USA. Her work is included in collections
including the Office of Public Works and John Rocha.
She has received awards from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and in 2006 was awarded the Laganside ‘Art in Architecture’ Design award from the Royal Society of Ulster Architects (RSUA) for a collaborative
public art project (Mackel + Doherty Architects/ An Nuachtain/Joyce).
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Bronagh was born and brought up in Portaferry and Strangford, Co. Down Northern Ireland. In the eighties, she left her home to explore life in another context. She completed a foundation Diploma at Bristol Polytechnic and obtained a first class degree in Textiles and Fashion from Winchester School of Art.
As one of” Thatcher’s children” on the enterprise allowance scheme, she started her own business in London, selling limited edition knitwear and jewellery. Awarded the “Calvin Klein - Harvey Nichol Fulbright award” in 1991 for excellence in Fashion, she went to study for four months at Parsons School of Design in New York City.
Bronagh returned to Northern Ireland in 1992 but unable to settle in the insular environment, left for Zaragoza, Spain, were she designed and made costumes for a Ballet troupe. Back home again, she taught art to a group of teenagers, before embarking on a formal business training with the NI Small Business Institute and the Townsend Enterprise Park. She has now been working for the last 12 years as a Training and Business Consultant in areas of multiple, severe deprivation in Belfast and the border counties, using her creative mind and professional business skills for a wider social purpose. During this time, she has kept up her “purely” artistic practice in sketch books of her travels worldwide.
In the summer of 2005, she took a course in Etching at the BPW because she wanted to learn a new way of ‘downloading’ her creative thoughts. The course gave her an addiction to Etching, the output of which she has been showing in a number of BPW exhibitions. |
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Elaine Megahey received a BA (Honours) in Textiles/Fine Craft Design from the University of Ulster and an MA in Textile Art from Birmingham Polytechnic. She also holds a Post-graduate Certificate in further and Higher Education from Belfast Institute and Greenwich University London, and is currently an Associate Lecturer in art and Design at the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education.
She has exhibited in solo and selected group exhibitions in Ireland, the UK, the USA, Germany, Japan and China. Her work, initially based on Textile Art practice, now encompasses printmaking and mixed-media techniques. She was a member of New Fibre Art-Textile Artists (1995-2000), and since 1989 has been a member of the 62 Group of Textile Artists.
Her involvement with printmaking began in 1995 through Seacourt Print Workshop; she is currently a member of Belfast Print Workshop. In 198 and 1996 she was awarded general bursaries from ACNI, and in 2001 received a Regional Award for print in the Hunting Art Prize. She has carried out commissions for the Royal Victoria Hospital and The Mater Hospital, Belfast, and her works are held in several public and private collections. |
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"My work has almost always been concerned with either landscape or figures in landscape where I hope the expressive handling of paint is the predominant feature.
The Mourne Mountains of Northern Ireland and the Cooley Mountains on the other side of Carlingford Lough dominated my world as a child and because of this the mountain is often present in my work, the hills surrounding Belfast, the mountains and bogs of the Glens of Antrim, Donegal and Sligo."
Catherine McWilliams graduated from Belfast College of Art and has been exhibiting since 1964 combining painting with teaching until 1990. Since then she has combined painting and co- running Cavehill Gallery
with Joseph McWilliams, where she exhibits with other invited artists.
As an academician Catherine exhibits regularly with the R.U.A.(Royal Ulster Academy), has participated in many group shows in London and abroad and is represented in a number of public collections in Ireland and Britain. |
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Born in Holland (The Hague) and came to Northern Ireland during the 1980s.
Although my background is in illustration, printmaking is my main interest. You never know what the effects of working on a plate are and pulling a print from the press is unknown to a certain extent.
I am interested in objects, places that have a stillness of time. Ordinary things which were used by people and are used to the present day, maybe in a different way. Memories and recordings of life, past and present.
My work is mainly in the medium of etching, drypoint and monoprinting. |
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Relationships with my family and friends have been the basis for my subject matter. At times the work has used anthropomorphised animals to make pictorial jokes and stories, or to poke fun at myself and my nearest and dearest.
The most recent work has engaged with objects-shoes, handbags, jugs and teapots-that remain when a person is no longer with us. After a death, the ubiquitous object, which formed part of a daily domestic life, takes on an enhanced charisma.
Veronica Wallis is a prolific printmaker and exhibitor. She studied Fine Art at University of Ulster, graduating with a Degree and Postgraduate Diploma. Between 1970 and 2000 she was a teacher, working in various schools in London, with the Prison Education and Training Branch of the NIO and at the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Ulster.
Her work has featured in a long list of exhibitions since the 1980s. |
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