Biography
Kari Cahill is an Irish artist, pigment maker, mokuhanga printmaker, and curator whose practice brings new perspectives to cultural, historical, and natural landscape through engagement with natural materials. Based at The Model, Sligo, on Ireland's north-west coast, she is a member of Graphic Studio Dublin and a featured artist on the Wild Pigment Project, an artist-based resource for practitioners working with natural pigments.
Cahill studied Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin. She co-founded and directed Basic Space (2010-2014), a not-for-profit artist-led contemporary art space in Dublin supported by Dublin City Council's Vacant Spaces Initiative and the Arts Council's Visual Arts Workspace Scheme. She later moved her practice to the west of Ireland, joining The Model in Sligo as a studio artist, and is the co-director and co-founder of Lay of the Land (LOTL), a site-responsive arts organisation producing residencies and public-art exhibitions in wild locations around Ireland.
Her mokuhanga 'once floating now knowing' (2020, 34 x 26 cm) was selected for the Kanreki exhibition mounted by Graphic Studio Dublin to mark its 60th anniversary, a cohort organised around a brief that all participating artists incorporate the colour red. The work was shown at The Model, Sligo, and at Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin (May-June 2021). Her mokuhanga vocabulary draws on the same body of natural-pigment research that drives her broader practice, situating mokuhanga within a wider concern for the geological and biological materiality of place.
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Kari Cahill is an Irish artist, pigment maker, mokuhanga printmaker, and curator whose practice brings new perspectives to cultural, historical, and natural landscape through engagement with natural materials. Based at The Model, Sligo, on Ireland's north-west coast, she is a member of Graphic Studio Dublin and a featured artist on the Wild Pigment Project, an artist-based resource for practitioners working with natural pigments.
Kari Cahill's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.