BIO
Michele Hetherington is a Visual Artist living and working in Dublin, Ireland. Her practice poetically considers Ephemerality within the Landscape through the processes of Printmaking and Film Photography. In a state of constant flux, the works have elements of fleeting, uncertainty, incompleteness, evolving and dissolving matter. Hetherington is based between Graphic Studio Dublin and Richmond Road Studios. Her practice is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Fingal County Councils Arts Office. Selected Exhibitions to date include; Draíocht; Graphic Studio Gallery; Swords Castle; Lismore Castle Arts; Royal Hibernian Academy; Solstice Arts Centre; Pallas Projects and University of Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan. Michele Hetherington's work is held in Public and Private Collections throughout Ireland, Europe, USA and Japan.
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Education
2018 MFA in Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
2016 BA (Hons) in Fine Art Printmaking, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
Awards/Bursaries
Fingal County Council Arts Office Artists' Bursary 2020/2021/2022/2023/2024
Arts Council Agility Award 2022
Fingal County Council Arts Office Graduate Award 2018
Collections
Public Collections: OPW Collection; IPUT Real Estate Collection
Private collections: Ireland, Europe, USA and Japan.
Residencies
2023 Cill Rialaig Residency, Ballinskellig, Co. Kerry
2019 Block T, Fingal County Council Arts Office Residency
Memberships
Professional Member of Visual Artists Ireland
Member of Graphic Studio Dublin & Richmond Road Studios
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Talk Softly, Swords Castle, Co. Dublin.
Two Person Exhibitions
2026 Two person show, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin.
2017 Time is not a line, Pallas Projects and Studios, Dublin.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
SÄ…/ryšiai | LINKS, KKKC KlaipÄ—da Cultural Communication Centre, KlaipÄ—da, Lithuania.
2024
Mór, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
Hermione, Alexandra College, Dublin.
Monochromatic, Graphic Studio Gallery, curator; Dr. Catherine Daunt,British Museum.
2023
Winter Show, Ardgillan Gallery, Ardgillan Castle, Dublin.
Elevate, Business to Arts & CBRE, Powerscourt Town Centre, Dublin.
Mór, Graphic Studio Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin.
Small things like these, Cork County Council, LHQ Gallery, Cork.
Geomancy, curated by Aoife Scott, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin.
2022
Geomancy, IMPACT 12, University of West of England, Bristol.
Páipéar, Hang Tough Contemporary, 6-8 College Green, Dublin.
E X P A N D E D, Selected Group show co-curated by Dr. Andy Folan, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin.
2020
Stories from Lismore and Beyond, Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford.
Winter Open, The Courthouse Gallery, Co.Clare
2019
RHA 189th Annual exhibition, Ely Place, Dublin.
imPRESSions Biennial 2019, Galway International Arts Festival, Galway.
A5, Galway Arts Centre, Co. Galway.
2017 Zureta, Tokyo, University of Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Professional Development
2024 Bookbinding with Eilis Murphy, Graphic Studio Dublin.
2023 Letterpress with Mary Plunkett, Graphic Studio Dublin.
2022 Photo Intaglio with Elke Thonnes, Graphic Studio Dublin.
2021 Mokuhanga Japanese Woodblock with Kate McDonagh.
Social Media and Marketing, with Kari Cahill.
Monoprint with Clare Henderson, Graphic Studio Dublin.
2019 Lithography with Mick Timmons, Graphic Studio Dublin.
Carborundum with Elke Thonnes, Graphic Studio Dublin.
Etching with Niamh Flanagan and Clare Henderson, Graphic Studio Dublin.
Artist Talk
2021 Artists Beyond the Studio Series, Michele Hetherington, Graphic Studio Dublin.
Art Fairs
London Original Print Fair
Woolwich Contemporary, London
Arts Educator
Educator and Mentor, Graphic Studio Dublin
Workshop Facilitator, Richmond Barracks, Inchicore.
Curatorial/ Project Management
2024 Echoes of Home, Project Manager and Co-Curator; partnership of Graphic Studio Dublin, Simon Communities of Ireland and HLB Accounting, Royal Hibernian Academy.
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Group Exhibitions
2023
Winter Show, Ardgillan Gallery, Ardgillan Castle, Dublin.
Winter Show, Graphic Studio Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin
Home again; The Art of Belonging, RHA, Dublin.
Summer Show, Graphic Studio Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin.
2022
On the Grand Canal, in partnership with IPUT, Graphic Studio Gallery.
Returning Home, in partnership with the Simon Communities of Ireland, CHQ, Dublin.
Summer Show, Graphic Studio Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin.
2021
The Art of Home, CHQ, Dublin
PluidProject2021, Farmleigh Cowshed Gallery, Dublin.
Winter Show, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin.
Around the World Project, Print Club Torino, Italy.
Diamond Point, Blue House Gallery, Schull, West Cork.
Diamond Point, Graphic Studio Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin.
2020
60 years of Graphic Studio Dublin, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo.
Riddle 57, Double Elephant Print Studio, Devon.
MAKing Art: PRINTing. Draiocht Gallery, Blanchardstown.
Winter Show, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin.
2018
NCAD MFA Graduate show 2018, The Annex, James' Street, Dublin.
Half Baked, Elbana House, Dublin.
2017
Zureta, Tokyo, University of Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Detached, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Co. Meath.
Works on Paper, Stiwdio Maelor, Slaters Arms, Wales, UK.
2016 Futures, NCAD Fine Art Graduate degree show, Thomas Street, Dublin.
2015 Tunnelling: Art and Light, UCD, Curated by Emer O'Boyle, University College Dublin.