TALAMH - Mapping Memory & Place - LINOCUT PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP

Linocut Printmaking workshop inspired by Manchán Magan's 'Listen to the Land Speak' - at Butler Gallery

As Part of a This hands-on lino printmaking workshop invites participants to explore their connection to land, language, and landscape through creative practice. Inspired by themes from Manchán Magan's 'Listen to the Land Speak', the session explores how place shapes identity, memory, and emotion.

Participants will be guided by Kilkenny artist Blaise Butler through the process of designing, carving, and printing their own lino print using inspiration prompts drawn from exerpts from the book, Irish landscape, folklore, placenames, and personal connections to meaningful places. The workshop encourages responses that are symbolic, emotional, or imaginative, rather than purely representational.

This workshop also celebrates the Irish language through discussion of place-based words and meanings connected to landscape and heritage. The focus is on exploration and process, making it suitable for complete beginners as well as those with creative experience.

With consent, prints may be documented as part of TALAMH - Mapping Memory & Place, a wider creative project exploring collective connections to land and heritage across Kilkenny.

Duration: 2.5 hours

All materials provided

18+, FREE - BOOKING ESSENTIAL - LIMITED SPACES - participants are asked to please notify the organiser if unable to attend as spaces are very limited and you're spot can be passed on to another- Thank you. Thank you to Creative Ireland and Kilkenny County Council for supporting this project