Colin Martin is an artist and lecturer based in Dublin. He is currently Head of the RHA School. He is a graduate of TU Dublin and NCAD and his current practice is concerned with the intersection of analogue painting with digital and technological cultures. The practice explores spaces that blur boundaries between the real and virtual and where technology, culture and politics have become synthesized. Martin has been an active participant and educator in the Irish visual arts cultural landscape acting as the chairperson in Black Church Print Studio where he initiated projects such as Black Church Process and the A&E public talk series. He has been member of the RHA Council and Programme Board and has initiated public talk series, national and international artist master classes, drawing groups, Critical Correspondence Courses and structured skill workshops for artists at the RHA. He has served as a judge on the RDS Graduate Award Panel, Marmite Prize for Painting, This Is Art and the British Institute Fund. He has curated exhibitions ‘What is and What Might be’ and ‘This is Not Architecture’ at the Highlanes Gallery and ‘Real Real’ at the Waterford Municipal Gallery. In 2024 Martin was the curator of the RDS Visual Arts Awards at the RHA. Martin has been a regular contributor to VAI Newsletter and has been a speaker on many artist panels such as Rethinking The Image 2025, We Need To Talk About Painting at the Complex 2022 and Dubliners, Zagreb 2021. His work is many public and private collections such the Arts Council, UCC, OPW, Fingal Arts and the RHA.

Colin Martin will curate Satellite Salon on behalf of Black Church Print Studio in The Library Project in September 2026.

Satellite Salon

4th – 26th Sept 2026

Curated by Colin Martin

Black Church Print Studio is pleased to present Satellite Salon, a group exhibition curated by Colin Martin at the Library Project in Temple Bar.

Satellite Salon comprises two conceptual ideas. The print studio as a site of artistic production is one that facilitates and supports modes of production in printmaking . Print studios are factorial communal spaces that are both inclusive and accessible. They are sustaining spaces that are hands on and haptic and filled with specialist materials and technical knowledge. Printmakers and artists orbit these spaces supported by their gravitational pull and benefit from the mutual support and opportunity that arises. The term Salone derives from the French term for a reception space. These spaces contradictorily create an elite space for specialism, while simultaneously creating a bounded inclusivity within that envelope. The salon typically created a formal device to create commonality between disparate elements. Inevitably hierarchies between genres developed, the humility of still lives were skyed while history painting were hung on the privileged eye level. On balance the salon space is an egalitarian one that corresponds to the social nature of a spaces such as the Black Church Print Studio. The levelling nature the print studio that is both an intergenerational workspace that accommodates artists working at various levels of experience in a specialist field. The works in Satellite Salon represent a fully inclusive representation of members work and embraces the medium specificity of the printmaking process, the exhibition will contain 50+ works in a formal uniformity offset with a choreographed scatter hang that can accommodate the diverse print languages that comprise the artistic community of the Black Church Print Studio.

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