LP Board
Chair Fiona Quill
Fiona is a practicing printmaker and currently lecturing full time in the department of Fine Art, Printmaking Contemporary Practice in the Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD). Fiona holds her MA in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Limerick. She is actively involved in contemporary printmaking practice on a national and an international level.
She had worked concurrently in LSAD in printmaking practice and MIC in visual art education from 2008 – 2012. Fiona’s areas of research include The Teacher as Performer (MIC) and Time Restricted Printmaking (LSAD). Fiona is vice chair of the Research Ethics Committee and sits on the board of Research and Development sub-committee to the Academic Council in the Limerick Institute of Technology.
Fiona is a member of IVARO and the VAI and has work in the OPW, RTE and University of Limerick collections.
Secretary Des MacMahon
Des Mac Mahon was born in 1967 and resides in Limerick. He completed his undergraduate studies in Fine Art Printmaking in Limerick School of Art and Design in 1988 and his Masters in Chelsea School of Art in 1992. He was the Print technician in Limerick School of Art and Design for a number of years and has been a lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking for almost 20 years.
Des has been involved with Limerick Printmakers from its inception and has been actively engaged in the development of the organisation since then. Des is a practicing artist who continues to exhibit both nationally and internationally on a (reasonably) regular basis. He runs Delete Press as a project orientated free print press. Through this he produces free editions and has run a series of 24 hour print events aimed at capturing the dynamism of print processes, the spirit of collaboration and community, and the potential of the artist under pressure.
Director Tracy Fahey
Dr. Tracy Fahey is Head of Department of Fine Art and Head of Centre for Postgraduate Studies at Limerick School of Art and Design, LIT. She has previously worked as Head of Department of Humanities, IT Carlow and Head of Faculty of Design, Griffith College Dublin. She is a member of the advisory boards of the Centre for Research in Popular Culture, AUT, Auckland and the Centre for Studies in Otherness, Denmark. She is a founder member of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (2013) and the Irish Network for Gothic Scholars (2013). In 2013 she established the ACADEMY research centre in Limerick School of Art & Design, where she acts as principal investigator.
Her main area of research is Irish Gothic with special reference to the visual arts, and she is currently completing a monograph on the subject Contemporary Irish Folk Gothic for University of Wales Press. She has chapters on this subject in The Gothic and the Everyday: Living Gothic (Palgrave), The Gothic Compass: New Directions in Scholarship and Inquiry (Routledge) International Gothic in the Neo-Liberal Age (Manchester University Press), Lost Souls (McParland), Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory (Peter Lang Publishing) and Imagining Irish Suburbia (Cork University Press). She has also published on contemporary design, a/r/tography, transgressive art and bodily monstrosity. Since 2010 she has run fine art collective Gothicise who specialise in site-specific performance. Her collection of short fiction, The Unheimlich Manoeuvre (2016) is published by Boo Books.
Director Clare Gilmour
Clare Gilmour holds a BA Honours Degree in Fine Art Printmaking from the Limerick School of Art & Design and a MA in European Fine Art from Winchester School of Art, UK. Clare has previously taught in the Art Department at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick and in the Teacher Training and Print Department in LSAD. She currently teaches Design and Digital Photography with LCETB. Clare has also participated in developing and teaching QQI Modules Level 3-5 in Digital Media in LCETB.
Clare’s community work has included teaching photography and organising photography exhibitions with Limerick City Community ICT Steering Group, and funded projects with the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and City of Limerick VEC. Clare is a practicing printmaker and photographer who has exhibited both nationally and internationally.
Director Clare Gilmour
Mary O’Dea is an artist that works in the medium of print, mixed media and installation. Having worked as a Production Engineer for a number of years she returned to college and received a BA in Fine Art from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and her work features in both public and private collections including the OPW, Limerick University Hospital and in the University of Limerick’s National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland. She currently teaches on the Professional Master of Education in Art and Design with Digital Media course in the Limerick School of Art & Design.
Her work focuses on the landscape, both architectural and natural. Following a residency in Aviles, Spain, the artist is concentrating on creating installations in the landscape using found objects and textiles, e.g. Influence I and II, in the National Self Portrait Collection at University of Limerick.
Director Suzannah O’Reilly
Suzannah O’ Reilly is a practicing Artist, Printmaker, Fine Art Lecturer and Curator. She is co-founder and Director of Parallel Editions, a Fine Art Publishing House in Limerick, producing limited editions, prints and books for individual artists, institutes and corporate clients on commission and on a collaborative basis. Suzannah currently teaches printmaking in the Limerick College of Art & Design.
Suzannah has participated in print specific projects with Limerick Printmakers, Cork Printmakers, The Source Gallery Thurles, Co. Tipperary and Factoria Culture Aviles, Austurias in Spain. She was involved in the Apprentice Master project in 2015 in Conjunction with LSAD and Kunstpodium T, Netherlands with the role of Master printer and Mentor to four European students. In 2014 she coordinated and curated a group project by the Limerick printmakers members titled Plan A & Plan B. The body of work was exhibited in several locations nationally before being purchased by the OPW and subsequently being invited to appear at the Impact Print Conference in 2015.
Her work can be found in both private and public collections such as OPW, RTE, UL, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick County Council.
Secretary Des MacMahon
Des Mac Mahon was born in 1967 and resides in Limerick. He completed his undergraduate studies in Fine Art Printmaking in Limerick School of Art and Design in 1988 and his Masters in Chelsea School of Art in 1992. He was the Print technician in Limerick School of Art and Design for a number of years
and has been a lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking for almost 20 years.
Des has been involved with Limerick Printmakers from its inception and has been actively engaged in the development of the organisation since then. Des is a practicing artist who continues to exhibit both nationally and internationally on a (reasonably) regular basis. He runs Delete Press as a project orientated free print press. Through this he produces free editions and has run a series of 24 hour print events aimed at capturing the dynamism of print processes, the spirit of collaboration and community, and the potential of the artist under pressure.
Director Clare Gilmour
Clare Gilmour holds a BA Honours Degree in Fine Art Printmaking from the Limerick School of Art & Design and a MA in European Fine Art from Winchester School of Art, UK. Clare has previously taught in the Art Department at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick and in the Teacher Training and Print Department in LSAD. She currently teaches Design and Digital Photography with LCETB. Clare has also participated in developing and teaching QQI Modules Level 3-5 in Digital Media in LCETB.
Clare’s community work has included teaching photography and organising photography exhibitions with Limerick City Community ICT Steering Group, and funded projects with the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and City of Limerick VEC. Clare is a practicing printmaker and photographer who has exhibited both nationally and internationally.
Director Clare Gilmour
Mary O’Dea is an artist that works in the medium of print, mixed media and installation. Having worked as a Production Engineer for a number of years she returned to college and received a BA in Fine Art from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and her work features in both public and private collections including the OPW, Limerick University Hospital and in the University of Limerick’s National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland. She currently teaches on the Professional Master of Education in Art and Design with Digital Media course in the Limerick School of Art & Design.
Her work focuses on the landscape, both architectural and natural. Following a residency in Aviles, Spain, the artist is concentrating on creating installations in the landscape using found objects and textiles, e.g. Influence I and II, in the National Self Portrait Collection at University of Limerick.
Director Suzannah O’Reilly
Suzannah O’ Reilly is a practicing Artist, Printmaker, Fine Art Lecturer and Curator. She is co-founder and Director of Parallel Editions, a Fine Art Publishing House in Limerick, producing limited editions, prints and books for individual artists, institutes and corporate clients on commission and on a collaborative basis. Suzannah currently teaches printmaking in the Limerick College of Art & Design.
Suzannah has participated in print specific projects with Limerick Printmakers, Cork Printmakers, The Source Gallery Thurles, Co. Tipperary and Factoria Culture Aviles, Austurias in Spain. She was involved in the Apprentice Master project in 2015 in Conjunction with LSAD and Kunstpodium T, Netherlands with the role of Master printer and Mentor to four European students. In 2014 she coordinated and curated a group project by the Limerick printmakers members titled Plan A & Plan B. The body of work was exhibited in several locations nationally before being purchased by the OPW and subsequently being invited to appear at the Impact Print Conference in 2015.
Her work can be found in both private and public collections such as OPW, RTE, UL, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick County Council.
Director Tracy Fahey
Dr. Tracy Fahey is Head of Department of Fine Art and Head of Centre for Postgraduate Studies at Limerick School of Art and Design, LIT. She has previously worked as Head of Department of Humanities, IT Carlow and Head of Faculty of Design, Griffith College Dublin. She is a member of the advisory boards of the Centre for Research in Popular Culture, AUT, Auckland and the Centre for Studies in Otherness, Denmark. She is a founder member of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (2013) and the Irish Network for Gothic Scholars (2013). In 2013 she established the ACADEMY research centre in Limerick School of Art & Design, where she acts as principal investigator.
Her main area of research is Irish Gothic with special reference to the visual arts, and she is currently completing a monograph on the subject Contemporary Irish Folk Gothic for University of Wales Press. She has chapters on this subject in The Gothic and the Everyday: Living Gothic (Palgrave), The Gothic Compass: New Directions in Scholarship and Inquiry (Routledge) International Gothic in the Neo-Liberal Age (Manchester University Press), Lost Souls (McParland), Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory (Peter Lang Publishing) and Imagining Irish Suburbia (Cork University Press).
She has also published on contemporary design, a/r/tography, transgressive art and bodily monstrosity. Since 2010 she has run fine art collective Gothicise who specialise in site-specific performance. Her collection of short fiction, The Unheimlich Manoeuvre (2016) is published by Boo Books.
