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Local Organisations

Arts Council of Northern Ireland
http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/index.htm
Support and information for artists and arts organisations

The National Lottery Fund
http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/award/lottery.htm
Administered by the Arts Council of N. Ireland

The Northern Ireland Tourist Board
www.discovernorthernireland.com
A wealth of information for travellers to Northern Ireland

Ireland Info - Research All
http://irelandinfo.research-all.com/
A good site for planning your trip to the Emerald Isle

North Down Business Park / North Down Borough
http://www.northdown.co.uk/
http://www.northdown.gov.uk/

The British Council
http://www.britcoun.org/

Visiting Arts
http://www.britcoun.org/visitingarts/

Linking sites for Arts Funding
www.limeysearch.co.uk/Arts_and_Entertainment/Arts_Funding/
www.britisharts.co.uk/artsfunding.htm

These are a couple of sites which link to a variety of arts funding bodies, set up to enable individual artists and arts organisations in the UK.

Northern Ireland Visual Arts Forum (NIVAF)
www.visualartsforumni.com

The Arts & Disability Forum
www.adf.ie
Support and information to assist artists with disabilities in enjoying and participating in the arts on an equal basis.

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Artist Web Sites

Gail Kelly / Algan Arts
www.alganarts.com
Irish artist Gail Kelly's original prints and more.

Anya Belyat Giunta
http://dgiunta.free.fr/index.htm
Seacourt's Artist-in-Residence 2001, Anya Belyat Giunta deals with difficult geopolitical issues in a sensitive, yet forthright way.

Artboxx (Annabelle Hulbert)
www.artboxx.co.uk/
Artist Annabelle Hulbert's web site of original prints and paintings.  Powerful, insightful and colourful works.

Bogdan Achimescu
www.achimescu.com
Seacourt's Artist-in-Residence 1998, Bogdan Achimescu is an important artist whose influence casts a very wide net.

Ryan Burkhart
http://home.earthlink.net/~icherus/
Visiting Artist at Seacourt during summer 2000, Ryan is Director of Flying Horse Editions in Orlando, Florida, facilitating important works by emerging and established artists.  His own work is fantastic, and well worth a look.

Paul Croft
http://users.aber.ac.uk/puc/paulcroft/open.htm
Tamarind Master Printer, and author of
Stone Lithography, A&C Black, publishers

Jenny Devereux
www.jennydevereux.co.uk
Artist-printmaker Jenny Devereux

David DuBose
www.daviddubose.com
Artist-Printmaker David DuBose

Jean Duncan
www.jeaniduncan.co.uk
Original prints and paintings from one of Seacourt Print Workshop's founding members.

John Hitchcock
http://website.education.wisc.edu/jhitchcock/index.html
This American artist/printmaker and professor of art at the University of Wisconsin Madison has some wonderful works, addressing important social and political issues in a fun and interesting way.  Well worth a visit.

Mary Kpakra
www3.mistral.co.uk/reaction/
marykpakra/orig.htm

Artist printmaker Mary Kpakra

Dermot Seymour
www.dermotseymour.ie/
This Irish artist's web site has more bovines than you can shake a stick at.

Lucy Turner
www.thelucyturner.com

Original prints and other notorious works

Denise Walker
www.denisewalker.co.uk
Seacourt's Artist-in-Residence 2002

Travel Related and Web Resources

Discover Northern Ireland
www.discovernorthernireland.com

Are you travelling to Northern Ireland?  This site should be your first stop.  Everything you need to know, including fun, food, entertainment, accommodation and recreation.

Island Ireland
http://islandireland.com/
Featuring the best of Irish art, culture and environment

The Knowhere Guide to Bangor, Co. Down, N. Ireland
www.knowhere.co.uk/158.html
The locals speak

Tourism and Business in Northern Ireland
www.ulst.ac.uk/nitourism
Information site for tourism and business

Ireland resources
www.iaqi.com/ireland/

Ireland related news, books and web resources

Discover the World
http://uk.d-i-s-c-o-v-e-r.com/
Discover the World (see UK/Arts)

Northern Ireland Internet
www.niinternet.com

Trailblazerworld.com
www.trailblazer.ie/trailblazer/trailintro.htm
Tourist portal website for Ireland 

Northern Ireland Tourist Guide
www.guide-to-nireland.com/home.html
A guide to accommodation, business, employment, tourism

Mr. Useful
www.mruseful.com/home.html
Northern Ireland Accommodation Arena

Ireland
www.ireland.travel.ie/home/
The official website of the Irish Tourist Board

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Exhibitions and Gallery Listings

Art Listings
www.art.ie
Find out what's happening in the arts throughout the island of Ireland

Biennales & Triennials
http://eyelid.ukonline.co.uk/print/biennal.htm
Information on international exhibitions and competitions

Preview
www.preview.ie/
Information on museums and exhibitions in Ireland

Original Print Gallery
www.originalprint.ie/

The Townhouse Gallery in Belfast, N. Ireland
www.townhouseart.co.uk

Lemon Street Gallery
www.lemonstreet.com/
Award-winning site for this Dublin print gallery

The Battletown Gallery
www.thebattletowngallery.com/
Set within a dramatically restored coach-house on prime farmland this gallery provides a unique setting in which to enjoy and browse quality works of art. Art activity programmes for adults and childern are delivered by professional artists in a lightfilled studio/workshop.

The Engine Room Gallery
www.artnorth.co.uk/
The Belfast gallery showcasing contemporary art

The Kenny Gallery
www.thekennygallery.ie
Galway, Ireland

Cavanacor Gallery
www.cavanacoregallery.ie

Ballindrait, Lifford, Co. Donegal, Ireland
Contemporary art from Ireland

Laneside Gallery
www.lanesidegallery.com
This gallery in Coleraine, N. Ireland, features contemporary Irish art

White Image Gallery
www.whiteimage.com

Showing the work of Irish artists

The Tate
www.tate.org.uk/
Really fab.  Let’s go.

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Print Workshops and Studios

Anchor Graphics
www.anchorgraphics.org
Chicago collaborative print studio

Belfast Print Workshop
www.belfastprintworkshop.org.uk

Black Church Print Studio
www.print.ie

The Dublin-based print studio

Boston Printmakers
www.bostonprintmakers.org/

Cork Prinmakers
http://www.iol.ie/~crkprint/

Crown Point Press
www.crownpoint.com/html/home.html

Edinburgh Printmakers
www.edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk/

East London Printmakers
www.eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk
East London Printmakers is an independent group of artists who run a printmaking studio in Hackney, East London.

www.flying-horse-editions.org
The artist print publishing studio at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Glasgow Print Studio
www.gpsart.co.uk/
Glasgow's artist print studio & gallery

Graphic Arts Workshop
www.zpub.com/gaw/
San Francisco-based print studio

London Print Studio
www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/

Museograbado
www.museograbado.com
Education, Production & Research Centre for Printmaking, Zacatecas, Mexico

Open Studio, Toronto
www.openstudio.on.ca/galleries/index.htm

Reciprocal Press
www.reciprocalpress.com/
A strange and wonderful interactive site—the further explored, the more interesting it becomes

Stone Metal Press  
www.stonemetal-press.com
Non-profit artist gallery and studio for hand-made prints.  The oldest community press in San Antonio, Texas.

Tamarind Institute  
www.unm.edu/~tamarind/
Lithographers should log on immediately
 

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Printmaking and Art Resources

Art Listings
www.art.ie/
The comprehensive, up-to-the-minute listing of what's happening in Irish arts

Artifact
www.artifact.ie
The online database of contemporary Irish artists

Art-Search
www.art-search.co.uk/organisations/art_societies_groups/
The international directory of artists

Printmakers Web Ring
http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=print
Community of online printmakers

Art Deadline List
http://artdeadlineslist.com/
A monthly email newsletter listing art contests & competitions, art scholarships, grants, juried exhibitions and more

The Art Department Directory
http://billfisher.dreamhost.com
A comprehensive linking site to University and College Art Departments, as well as links to International sites for schools, print studios and artist-printmakers

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Periodicals

CIRCA Magazine
www.recirca.com/
News, reviews and info. for Irish artists

Printworks Magazine
www.mtsu.edu/~art/printmaking/workshops.html
A comprehensive printmaking linking site for everything from materials to workshops to print-related discussion forums.  Excellent.

Art on Paper
www.artonpaper.com/
The international magazine of Prints, Drawings & Photography

Printmaking Today
www.printmakingtoday.co.uk
The excellent quarterly journal for contemporary graphic art worldwide. First published in 1990, providing a forum for printmakers as an exchange of practical information and to make a bridge between practitioners and collectors or curators.

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Techniques

Nik Semenoff’s excellent site for safer printmaking
http://homepage.usask.ca/~nis715

Printmaker's Experimentarium
http://home5.inet.tele.dk/uk/index.html
Danish group devoted to non-toxic printmaking, particularly Acrylic-Resist Etching

A Brief History of Monoprints
www.monoprints.com/history/brief.html
Brief, informative and nicely illustrated

Printing from Glass Plates
www.glassaustralia.anu.edu.au/printing/tapper.print.html
Yes, these people are actually running glass plates through their etching press.

Squeegeeville
www.squeegeeville.com/
A site dedicated to all things related to screenprinting

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Equipment & Materials

Polymetaal Printmaking Equipment
www.polymetaal.nl/

Takach Presses
www.takachpress.com
Products for printmaking.

The Inkjet Mall
www.inkjetmall.com/

Sally Dyas / Photec Photo-intaglio film
www.sdyas.demon.co.uk
A great new site for printmakers working in (or interested in) photo-intaglio techniques

Akua Water-Based Inks
www.waterbasedinks.com/index.html

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Artist Groups, Collectors & Portal Sites

Arthouse
www.arthouse.ie/
News from Arthouse in Dublin

Bill Fisher
http://billfisher.dreamhost.com
Portal site to most university art departments and international printmaking.  Take a look at Bill's Bio too.

Chris Mercer
www.printmaker.co.uk
Excellent portal site

Print Forum
www.printforum.com
Directory of print dealers, galleries and big international art dealers’ associations

Print Collecting
http://ukans.edu/~sma/conn/conn/htm
Tips on print collecting

The American Print Alliance
www.PrintAlliance.org
Consortium of printmakers' councils in the U.S. and Canada

Yahoo! Printmakers WebRing
http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=print

International Print Center, NY
www.ipcny.org/
Something old, something new

Los Angeles Printmaking Society
www.art2u.com/LAPS/

Q & A
http://members.tripod.com/~qaart/printmaking.html

In Liquid
www.inliquid.com/art/print/print.shtml

World Printmakers
www.worldprintmakers.com/
A site to sell or just learn about printmaking 

Greenwich Printmakers Association
www.longitude0.co.uk/printmakers/welcome.htm

The London-based group for prints and printmakers

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