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M i c h e l e
H e t h e r i n g t o n
Visual Artist/Printmaker
@michelehetherington_
michele.m.hetherington@gmail.com
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Michele Hetherington is a Visual Artist and Arts Educator based in Dublin. Michele holds an MFA in Fine Art and BA in Printmaking from the National College of Art and Design. Throughout her Visual Art practice, Michele poetically considers and contemplates Ephemerality within the Landscape through the processes of Printmaking. Michele is based between Graphic Studio Dublin and Richmond Road Studios. Her practice is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Fingal County Council 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.
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.
Memberships
Visual Artists Ireland (Professional Member)
Graphic Studio Dublin (Professional Member)
Richmond Road Studios (Studio Member)
Printmaking Specialist Experience
2020- Present Professional Printmaker/Editioner- Visiting Artist Programme, Graphic Studio Dublin.
2023- Present Master Printmaker- Fingal County Council Print Residency in partnership with Graphic Studio Dublin.
Arts Educator/Cultural Facilitator Experience
2021- present Intaglio Printmaking Educator, Graphic Studio Dublin.
2023- present Printmaking Mentor, Graphic Studio Dublin.
2024- present Workshop Facilitator, Richmond Barracks.
2024 Flavours of Fingal, Workshop Facilitator, Fingal County Council.
2024 Culture Night Printmaking Demonstrations, Graphic Studio Dublin.
2025 Irish Refugee Council, Workshop Facilitator a collaborative partnership with Fighting Words.
2025 Pathways, Workshop Facilitator a collaborative partnership with Fighting Words.
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Curatorial/ Project Management Experience
2024 Echoes of Home, Project Manager and Curator; partnership of Graphic Studio Dublin, Simon Communities of Ireland and HLB Accounting, Royal Hibernian Academy.
Awards/Bursaries/Residencies
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
Cill Rialaig Residency, Ballinskellig, Co. Kerry 2023
Block T, Fingal County Council Arts Office Residency 2019
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Collections
Public Collections: OPW Collection; IPUT Real Estate Collection
Private collections: Ireland, Europe, USA and Japan.
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Art Fairs
London Original Print Fair
Woolwich Contemporary, London
Upcoming Exhibitions
2026 Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin.
2025 Not about the Rain, Klaipeda Cultural Communication Centre, Lithuania.
Solo/Two Person Exhibitions
2019 Talk Softly, Swords Castle, Co. Dublin.
2017 Time is not a line, Pallas Projects and Studios, Dublin.
Selected/Invited Group Exhibitions
2025 Not about the Rain, Klaipeda Cultural Communication Centre, Lithuania.
2024 Mór, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
Hermione, Alexandra College, Dublin.
Monochromatic, Graphic Studio Gallery, curator; Dr. Catherine Daunt,British Museum.
2023 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
London Original Print Fair, London
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, 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
2025 Poetry Bookbinding with Eilis Murphy, Graphic Studio Dublin.
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.
2021 Social Media and Marketing, with Kari Cahill.
2021 Monoprint with Clare Henderson, Graphic Studio Dublin.
2019 Lithography with Mick Timmons, Graphic Studio Dublin.
2019 Carborundum with Elke Thonnes, Graphic Studio Dublin.
2019 Etching with Niamh Flanagan and Clare Henderson, Graphic Studio Dublin.
Artist Talk 2021 Artists Beyond the Studio Series, Michele Hetherington, Graphic Studio Dublin.