Digital Exhibitions

This exhibition focusses on the two main posters designers for the Abbey Theatre during the 1970s-1980s, Kevin Scally and Brendan Foreman, and their methods of visually interpreting a stage production.

Seven decades of LP covers in Ireland. This exhibition examines the Irish-printed album cover. Included album covers were all designed or printed in Ireland.

The Legacy of the Printers of 1916. The growth of the print industry in Ireland from the 17th century onwards was linked to political and administrative change. Print forms spanned all social spheres including academic works, luxury accessories and administrative stationary. In 1916, printers transformed the words of artists, activists, politicians and industrialist into works of permanent ink, which survive today.

The Irish women’s suffrage campaign and the power of print media. This exhibition, first displayed in 2018, commemorated the centenary of the first national female vote in Ireland. It explored the use of print by the Irish suffragists, and their opponents, in their methods of protest and promotion.

Art and design made and printed during the first lockdown. This exhibition explores art and design ‘locked up’ and printed during lockdown in Ireland. It features work by Maser, Annie Atkins, Damn Fine Print, One Strong Arm, and Richard Seabrooke and collaborators.

A Photographic Celebration Ruth Carden | Mark Henderson | Kate Swift. The Chapel is the collective term for members of a print union. At the National Print Museum, the term specifically refers to the group of active retired printers and compositors that are dedicated to preserving the craft of letterpress printing at the Museum.

A Letterpress Investigation. The Anthropocene can be defined as the present geological era in which human activity has become visible as a dominant and destructive influence on the Earth’s systems. This exhibition is a letterpress print investigation on the theme of the Anthropocene, at a moment of reckoning with climate change.