Fiona Maher
"Printmaking for me is the perfect antidote to modern life. I can immerse myself in the manual, mechanical, and tactile processes and explore the endless possibilities it offers up.
I enjoy the challenge of breathing new life into discarded materials and presenting them in a contemporary context."
Fiona Maher's approach to printmaking is experimental and playful, exploring the potential of materials and surfaces for making marks with and printing onto. She has been working with vinyl records since lockdown (where her journey started), and it has been evolving and developing ever since. There is a touch of nostalgie inherent in her work that embraces a slower way of life, and there are echoes of her oen past which is reflected on and used to create a dialogue with the now.
Fiona has been printmaking for many years and completed a printmaking residency in 2022. This involved community engagement and participation, leading to collaborative prints being made to celebrate the papermaking history of Penicuik. The work now hangs as a legacy of the project and reflects an important part of her own practice - running participative classes that share printmaking skills and enable a growing and developing community of keen printmakers.
