Our Team

Hazel Burke

General Manager

Hazel is responsible for leading Black Church Print Studio to reach its strategic objectives and for implementing the creative direction across our artistic programme; Make, Learn, Experience, Collect.
Hazel has been with Black Church Print Studio since 2007. She has a keen interest in the visual arts and working directly with artists. Her academic background includes a BA in History of Art from UCD and a higher diploma in Arts Management from UCG. Her employment record includes working in public and private galleries in Ireland since 1998 including DHG, IMMA, and the Solomon Gallery Dublin.

David McGinn

Technical Manager

David is responsible for the day-to-day running of the Studio floors providing technical support and expertise as required to members and non members alike. He also manages our digital printing services available to the public and installs our exhibitions as required.
David has worked in Black Church Print Studio since 2007. His background is in Fine Art Print and his areas of expertise include Etching, Lithography, Screen Print, Relief Print and Digital. David has previously worked with Dublin based galleries in a technical capacity, including Temple Bar Gallery and Studios and the Project Arts Centre. David is also a practicing artist.printmaker and has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Ireland over the years.

Monika Crowley

Member of BCPS Artist Panel

Monika Crowley recently exhibited at the Belfast International Arts Festival and at the Artform Summer show in Dunmore East. Earlier shows include Higher Pitch in London, with the Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery, Greenacres Gallery, at Graphic Print Gallery Summer Show, at VUE in the RHA, and her work was selected for the RHA Annual Summer 188 th Exhibition. She has had two solo shows at the Molesworth Gallery and also at The Ranelagh Arts Centre. She is a  a long-time member at the Black Church Print studio and also a member of Graphic Studio Dublin.

Her pieces are held in many private collections, nationally and internationally, and in the public collections of the OPW and the Contemporary Irish Arts Society. 

Janine Davidson

Member of BCPS Artist Panel

Vincent Sheridan

Member of BCPS Artist Panel

Caroline Byrne

Member of BCPS Artist Panel

Born in Waterford, Caroline Byrne studied Graphic Design at the College of Marketing and Design and the College of Technology. She moved to San Francisco, California for five years and in that time worked professionally as a Graphic Designer and Illustrator. Byrne returned to complete a masters in Illustration at the Edinburgh College of Art in 2002. She joined the Black Church Print Studio in 2004. Byrne works primarily in relief print making and creating artists books. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows, in Ireland and the UK.

Byrne is currently a board member of the Black Church Print Studio. Her work is held in private and public collections including including the OPW and The National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL), at the National College of Art and Design.

Louise Peat

Member of BCPS Artist Panel

Louise Peat was born in Dublin where she lives and works. She studied Fine Art at DIT, College of Marketing and Design, where she received an honours Diploma in Painting in 1993, and was conferred a Master in Fine Art in Painting from NCAD in 2011. She is currently on the teaching panel and has previously served on the Board at the Black Church Print Studio where she has been a member since 1990.
Louise’s practice is characterised by an innovative approach to processes, methodologies and media. She employs multiple approaches and strategies in her art practice and is open to an investigation through painting, drawing, print, installation, sound, and digital to create and inform her work. The work includes computer-generated drawings constructed in virtual spaces, scanned paintings and screen shots, which she makes physical through the medium of printmaking. The final pieces are hybrid blends of digital and traditional image-generating
methods by the artist. Louise Peat has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and received an EVA – Award in 1998 and in 2000 she won the Douglas Hyde Gold Medal and Arts Council Award for painting. Her work is held in many public and private collections.

Siobhan Cox

Member of BCPS Artist Panel

Alan Crowley

Member of BCPS Artist Panel

Alan Crowley is a lecturer in the Animation & Motion Design programme at the Limerick School of Art & Design. Trained as a fine art printmaker he also makes work using photography, drawing and sculpture. His practice is concerned with creating visual analogies that are informed by personal experience, cultural observations, and philosophy of mind. Alan has exhibited nationally and internationally and has had the privilege of being favourably reviewed by Cristín Leach for the Sunday Times Culture magazine. 

Debora Ando

Member of BCPS Artist Panel

Debora Ando was born and raised in Sao Paulo. She received a BA First Class Honours in Fine Art with specialisation in Printmaking from the Universidade de São Paulo and MA in Visual Arts Practice with IADT. She has been a Black Church Print Studio member since 2009. She is currently based in Germany where she lectures at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund and has a Studio in Künstlerhaus Dortmund. Debora is also a print tutor at the Druckvereinigung Bentlage. Since 2002 she has been participating in exhibitions, residencies and international conferences in Sao Paulo, Europa, Japan, China and Hong Kong. From 2006–19 she lived in Dublin, where she lectured in the Print Department of the National College of Art and Design. During this period she was also an artist in the Dublin City Council’s Artists Panel, curated exhibitions and ran print workshops in partnership with the National Gallery of Ireland, Chester Beatty Library, Limerick Printmakers, Galway Print Studio, Bealtaine Festival, among many other schools and arts organisations

Artist Panel