Stoney Road Press will be launching AT SIXES AND SEVENS this Friday 23rd Aug at 6pm. Please join us for a reading by Paul Muldoon and a preview of etchings by Rita Duffy.

AT SIXES AND SEVENS by Paul Muldoon with etchings by Rita Duffy is a new limited edition book published by Stoney Road Press. The text, by Paul Muldoon, is hand-printed letterpress and the book contains eight original etchings by the artist Rita Duffy. 

Hand-bound in leather with a matching slipcase, this special edition will be limited to 150 copies and each numbered copy will be signed by the writer and artist.

For more details or directions please call 01 887 8544.

Dates: 1 Jul - 31 Jul

Opening hours: Mon - Fri 10am to 5pm, Sat 13th - 11am to 4pm, Closed Sun

This July Stoney Road Press will be hosting the exhibition Experiments With Photography as part of the 2013 PhotoIreland Festival. The exhibition highlights the work of three artists who have worked at Stoney Road Press and used photography as a means or an end in their work:

Amelia Stein’s unique photographic tribute to her mother, LOSS AND MEMORY is on the face of it, the most straightforward photographic work in the exhibition. The real challenge was to find a way to bend the traditional giclée (digital reproduction) process to capture the deep velvety blacks of her traditional photographs, a characteristic essential to the success of this series of prints.

Amelia Stein, Loss and Memory V, 2010, Giclée

Dorothy Cross combines photography with etching to make her unique images.  In TEAR she uses her own dramatic photographs of breaking waves and combines these with an image from a traditional steel engraving to produce this intriguing set of images.  In GHOST SHIP she uses the photographic image combined with luminescent ink to produce photographs which quite literally, glow in the dark.

Dorothy Cross, Tear (ii), 2009, Intaglio

Dorothy Cross, Ghost Ship (ii), 2011, Luminescent etching

Sara Lee uses photography as a springboard to make her atmospheric woodblock prints.  She reduces and distills her own photographs before etching them and then combines them with two further printings from woodblocks.  The unique characteristcs of the grain of the wood become fused with the photographic image, further extending its meaning.

Sara Lee, Passage Through, 2013, Woodblock & Intaglio

This exhibition offers a unique insight into the printing process at Stoney Road Press and illustrates the many ways photography can be translated into printed editions.

Stoney Road Press will be exhibiting again at this year's London Original Print Fair. The fair takes place from Wed 24 - Sun 28 April at London's Royal Academy. Visit Stoney Road Press at stand 14 to view work from our portfolio of over 40 artists, including our latest editions by Ronnie Tallon, Michael Canning and Donald Teskey.

We are also delighted to be launching new work by Sara Lee, the result of our recent collaboration with Rabley Contemporary. The Crossing and Passage Through are a pair of intaglio and woodblock prints in an edition of 40. 

Sara Lee, The Crossing, Woodblock & Intaglio, 2013

Sara Lee, Passage Through, Woodblock & Intaglio, 2013
 

These beautiful landscapes are a mix of woodblock and polymer intaglio etching. Delicate layers of ink and the carefully seleceted grain of the wood suggest a swirling sky and rippling water, which add to the tranquil mood of the landscape. We are looking forward to displaying them for the first time at the fair, where the artist will be with us to sign the most recent prints of the edition.

For a complementary pass to the fair  please contact us at mail@stoneyroadpress.com.

Stoney Road Press at The London Original Print Fair is supported by Culture Ireland.

Stoney Road press printed an exclusive limited edition print by artist Louis Danes to celebrate Electric Burma, the concert to celebrate the visit of civil rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi to Dublin, to pick up her Ambassador of Conscience Award from Amnesty on June 18th.  The print, signed by the artist, is available in a limited edition of 300 from Art for Amnesty, Amnesty International (Tel 872.3677). 

Price: €100
All proceeds go to Amnesty International.