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.
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Edinburgh Printmakers reveals largest exhibition of members work to date for Hope / Dòchas
14 Nov 2024Hung across Galleries 1 & 2 at Edinburgh Printmakers, Hope/Dòchas is the organisation's biggest display of members’ work to date showcasing the work of 97...Read more -
New members’ exhibition ‘Journey’ at Edinburgh Printmakers
Celebrating the Journey of Edinburgh Printmakers’ Workshop from its beginning in 1967 5 Jan 2024Hung across Galleries 1 & 2 at Edinburgh Printmakers, ‘Journey’ celebrates the ‘journey’ of Edinburgh Printmakers' Workshop itself. Starting as a small collective of imaginative...Read more
