'imPRESSions' is the first and longest running National Open Print Exhibition in Ireland. For more than thirty years it has maintained its excellent record for producing high quality print exhibitions and has become a landmark show in the Irish arts calendar. The 'Open' runs every other year and work is selected by an invited adjudicator.

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Impressions is a not-for-profit organisation. We are a team of volunteers motivated by our passion and excitement about print as a medium for making art. Our objective is to stimulate and engage a wide audience in Printmaking and to create a greater awareness of the historical and cultural specifics of this medium.  We aim to highlight the intrinsic aspects of printmaking, such as multiplicity and accessibility and to stimulate new ways of thinking about and working with the process as well as to promote emerging and established print makers.

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In the years between the ‘Open’ exhibition we undertake to organize print related exhibitions such as the Book Arts exhibition in 2016. In 2018 the focus was on large format and alternate presentation of prints and 16 invited artists presented work in- 'imPRESSions-Printmaking beyond the Frame'.

Since 2015, each iteration of imPRESSions has been part of the Galway International Arts Festival visual arts programme.