Fiona Quill is a printmaker and educator based in Limerick. A member of the Limerick Printmakers group, she is also Chair of the Board of Directors there.

Fiona’s work is based on self examination and she uses that process to project issues of environmental, social and political concerns in her prints. Printmaking is a powerful tool for communication and the multiple holds the ability to reach further and extend a punch when needed!

Her printmaking practice encompasses monoprint, silkscreen, experimental litho and occasionally a bit of intaglio.

New processes and that evolve in printmaking and surfaces to print on hold particular fascination to her, as they bring new modes of expression to accurately capture a sentiment/description or communication in a work.

Communication and change is central and a common theme to everything Fiona does and as a lecturer and Program Leader of Print Contemporary Practice in the Limerick School of Art and Design she works to create an ethos in understanding the great canon of printmaking that runs through the roots of our civilization. The potential of the print is entrenched in this ethos through a dedicated team devoted to the subject in LSAD.

Limerick is on an island that is in the most westerly location of Europe and on that island, Limerick is right out on west coast, if you keep traveling the next stop is the east coast of the USA. Isolation in a practice that the general population is unaware of, is common. Her endeavor is to push the boundaries of printmaking, open up an understanding of the process and discuss common global matters while also keeping a finger on the heartbeat of international printmaking trends. She identifies that Limerick has a great community of printmakers and observes that it intends to keep growing and evolving.

Fiona has exhibited widely and internationally with her cohort in the Limerick Printmakers and independently. She has championed printmaking as a serious and necessary mode of expression in Creative Europe projects as a creative director and sees it as a democratic articulation for dissemination.

Her work is collected by public and private bodies.

Print is a solution, print won’t die, print is everywhere, print is everything.