The Belgrave Private Press is the imprint under which I print small editions of beautiful books and prints at my workshop in Dublin. I’m Mary Plunkett, a graphic designer and printmaker who specialises in letterpress.
I design and print my own work, in particular book arts, and enjoy collaborating with other artists, writers and designers to bring their ideas to life. I am a member of Graphic Studio Dublin and I teach evening and summer courses in Distillers Press, the letterpress print workshop in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, where I also had the pleasure of being Designer in Residence 2012 – 2013.
While printing letterpress for a number of years in other places such as Distillers Press in NCAD, Hand & Eye Letterpress in London and Graphic Studio Dublin, I’ve been slowly collecting and restoring my own little collection of presses: an Arab treadle, an Adana TP-48 & an etching press that my Da made out of a mangle. (Handy man to have around!)
I’m delighted that my first commission is a project for Yeats2015.