Fiona Quill

Quill’s own work examines the matriarchal role in the domestic environment and the fragility, vulnerability and strength of this role and also the habitation of rituals and behaviours it develops and encompasses. She embeds her work with the motif of fabric, primarily net-curtains and lace, these conceal and reveal at the same time. There is sexual and sensual references in using this material. It can be ornamental and practical. She uses bold colours, graphic imagery and irony to challenge herself in the interrogation of this subject matter.

Slaked my thirst
Printed in 2014
Silkscreen and Lithography
30w x 33h cm
Edition of 2
Framed
€190

Fiona Quill is a practicing artist and lecturer in the department of Fine Art, Printmaking and Contemporary Practice. She holds her MA in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Limerick. She is actively involved in contemporary printmaking practice on a national and an international platform.

Quill is currently chair of the board of directors of the Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery. She has worked concurrently in LSAD and MIC in printmaking practice and visual art education since 2008. Fiona’s area of research include The Teacher as Performer and Time Restricted Printmaking. She has delivered a conference paper on this methodology most recently in the University of Nicosia, Cyprus (2014).

Quill is also the current Artistic Coordinator on the Creative Europe project Symbols – Culture of Death and Cultural Life in conjunction with the Aviles Municipal Foundation for Culture (Spain), Maribor Cemetery (Slovenia), Genoa Municipality (Italy), Dundee & Angus College (UK) and Communaute de Communes du Nebbiu (France).   Quill has coordinated several print exchanges with studios in Philadelphia (2011), New York (2012) and Berlin (2012). She has participated in 24HR workshops in Aviles, Spain and Cork Printmakers, Ireland. Quill has shown work in China, Germany, the US, the UK and Canada. She has also been a resident on the International SIM program in Iceland.

Fiona is a member of IVARO and the VAI and has work in the OPW, RTE and University of Limerick collections.