Programme
Lecture by VWAP consultant Philip Grant
22 Jun 13
Féile Derry 2026: Relief Print Workshop
22 Aug 26
Artists
Gráinne McMenamin
Info
As part of Féile Derry 2026, the Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry brings artist Gráinne McMenamin to the programme to deliver a Relief Print Workshop. This event takes place on Friday 14 August 2026, 11am–1pm, in the Old Library Trust, Derry~Londonderry.
Participants will explore the process of printing original designs onto paper and textile surfaces, experimenting with pattern, texture and colour. Suitable for beginners and those with some experience. During the workshop participants will be introduced to relief printmaking techniques. Gráinne will support participants to create their own original printed artworks on both paper and textile surfaces. CCA hopes that this opportunity will lead to shared ideas, conversation and artistic exploration. Book your place through Féile Derry Eventbrite.
CCA Derry~Londonderry would like to thank Féile Derry for supporting this activity.
Gráinne delivered a similar workshop for Older People North West, as part of Positive Ageing Small Grants Programme in February–March 2025.
The annual Féile Derry (also known as the Gasyard Wall Féile) is the North West's largest community arts and cultural festival. It typically features over 150 events across more than 60 venues. The 11-day festival takes place from August 6 to August 15 2026.
The festival celebrates the heart of the Bogside, Brandywell, Creggan, Bishop Street, and Fountain neighbourhoods with a massive, diverse program for all ages.
Gráinne is an interdisciplinary artist/researcher based in northwest Ireland.
Her projects span installation, performance, sculpture and video. Her practice incorporates painting, printmaking, drawing, writing and hand- embroidery using plant-dyed silk skeins and local Donegal wool.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally and has been engaged in an ongoing collaboration with artist / researcher Catherine Bourne on a number of creative projects. A recent Decade of Centenaries funded project (Leitrim County Council and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media 2020- 2022.) included historical research, photography, drawing, aerial and ground mapping alongside the planning and delivery of participatory community workshops involving art, writing, reminiscence, story-collecting, and the development of a creative archive, real and imagined.
Gráinne has been project coordinator of the artists initiative Donegal Visual Artist Network (DVAN) in collaboration with Artlink Fort Dunree, The Regional Cultural Centre (RCC) Letterkenny, An Gailearai, Gweedore and The Glebe Gallery, Church Hill since 2022.
She was a participant of CCA Derry~Londonderry / Jerwood Developing Artists Programme in 2023 and is a member of The Manorhamilton Print Group at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre, currently working in exchange with the Ottawa-Gatineau Printmakers Connective in Canada on an ongoing collaboration project.
Gráinne’s current combined theory and practice-based research on the historic print as a catalyst for new visual art practice is supported by the Northern Bridge Consortium funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
