Our Team
The Black Church Print Studio team is a tight-knit, talented group made up of administrative and technical staff, and a panel of skilled printmakers who are contracted for teaching and editioning projects as required. We are inclusive, friendly and supportive.
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.
Ella Bertilsson
Member of BCPS Artist Panel
Ella Bertilsson (b. Umeå) is Dublin-based visual artist who weaves dark humour and absurdity into multi-disciplinary artworks. Bertilsson has been a member of the Black Church Print Studio since 2009, she was a member of the Board of Directors between 2017-2019 and is currently part of the sub-committee for the Black Church Process Residency. She is a recipient of the Visual Arts Bursary Award and the Project Award (2022-2023) from the Art Council of Ireland. She has 1st class honours in Fine Art Print (BA) and MFA both awarded from the National College of Art and Design, Ireland (2009, 2015). Forthcoming solo exhibitions at The Dock and Ballina Art Centre (2023), recent solo show; CUT THE CAKE WITH CLAWS, The Complex (2022). Selected awards include The Arts Council’s; Visual Arts Bursary Award (2022, 2021, 2020), Agility Award (2021), Professional Development Award (2020); South County Council’s Individual Bursary Award (2020), FSAS Digital Media Award (2019), Culture Ireland and Nordic Point Mobility Funding (2018).
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.
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.
Caoimhe Dalton
Member of BCPS Artist Panel
Caoimhe Dalton is a visual artist and printmaker working in Dublin. She trained as a printmaker and graduated with Honours from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Caoimhe has also studied Fine Arts in Academie Minerva in the Netherlands and the Barcelona Academy of Art. She has been a member of Black Church Print Studio in Dublin since winning the 1st prize John Kelly RHA Award in 2019. Her prints have been exhibited both nationally and internationally and her practice focuses on hands-on, manual processes such as intaglio printmaking, lithography, monotype and painting.
Janine Davidson
Member of BCPS Artist Panel
Emily Mc Gardle
Member of BCPS Artist Panel
Emily Mc Gardle is a printmaker from Co. Monaghan. Her practice consists primarily of screenprinting and drawing. Using hand drawn artwork, she creates multi-layer screenprints which combine humour, satire, and parody. Emily graduated from Dublin Institute of Technology in 2016 with a First-Class Honours degree in Fine Art and was the inaugural recipient of the Mont Kavanagh Trust Fine Art Award. She received an MA in Print from the Royal College of Art, London in 2020 and was awarded the Augustus Martin Print Prize. Emily has received an Emerging Talent Award from Monaghan County Council’s Artist Support Scheme in 2021 and 2022. She was recently shortlisted for the 2022 Zurich Portrait Prize.
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.
