LAWLOR, Ink-Stained Hands

LALOR, Brian. Ink-Stained Hands. Graphic Studio Dublin and the Origins of Fine-Art Printmaking in Ireland. With a foreword by Colm Tóibín.

Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 2011. First edition. Royal octavo. pp. xxiii, 300. Illustrated throughout with colour and black-and-white reproductions of prints, portraits, studio photographs, and archival material. Black cloth, titled in gilt. Pictorial dust-jacket featuring photograph of a printmaker at the press. A fine copy.

This richly illustrated and scholarly volume chronicles the history of Graphic Studio Dublin, Ireland’s leading print workshop, founded in 1960 by Elizabeth Rivers, Anne Yeats, Liam Miller, Patrick Hickey and Leslie MacWeeney. It situates the origins of Irish fine-art printmaking within the broader European context of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the influence of artists such as Harry Kernoff, Jack B. Yeats, and William Orpen, and recording the pioneering work of the Studio’s founders. Brian Lalor examines the Studio’s development, its schisms and collaborations, and the achievements of successive generations of Irish printmakers including James McCreary, Mary Farl Powers, and James O’Nolan. Appendices include important documents such as the Studio Prospectus (1965), a memorandum to the Arts Council (1977), and a detailed timeline of the movement 1893–2010.

A landmark study of modern Irish art, and the definitive reference work on the Graphic Studio Dublin. Essential for collectors and institutions specialising in Irish printmaking and visual culture.

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