Cyanotype Nature Printing: Bring Listowel Home- Friday 31st July 2026

Date: Friday 31st July 

Time: 10:30am - 2:30pm (snacks provided)

Tutor: Enzina Marrari 

Fee: €85 

Level: All levels welcome

Materials: All materials provided. 

Participants: Maximum 12

Suitable for: Adults and young people over 14 (accompanied by an adult) of all experience levels. No previous art or photography experience is necessary.

Venue: Olive Stack Gallery, Listowel V31 HW30 

Discover the magic of one of photography's oldest printing processes while exploring the natural beauty of Listowel.

In this hands-on workshop, you'll be introduced to the fundamentals of cyanotype printing — a simple, accessible photographic process that uses sunlight to create striking Prussian blue images. Suitable for complete beginners as well as those with creative experience, this workshop invites participants to slow down, observe nature and the Listowel landscape, and transform found natural materials into beautiful one-of-a-kind prints.

We will begin by learning the basics of the cyanotype process before taking a gentle walk along the river to gather leaves, grasses, flowers, and other botanical treasures. These collected materials will become the basis for a series of original cyanotype prints that capture a sense of place and create a lasting connection to the landscape.

Back in the studio, you'll experiment with composition, exposure, and printing techniques to create a collection of unique works on paper. The workshop encourages curiosity, play, and exploration, and no previous experience is required. By the end of the day, you'll leave with your own handmade cyanotypes — a beautiful way to take a little piece of Listowel home with you.

All materials for creating cyanotype prints on paper are provided.

Participants are also welcome to bring a natural fibre item like a cotton or linen tote bag, scarf, shirt, or other fabric piece, if they would like to experiment with printing on textiles. If participants are interested they are encouraged to bring items of special value to incorporate in the design such as pressed flowers, greenery or other flat materials that could create an interesting image.

Light snacks and refreshments will be provided throughout the workshop. Please note that the workshop runs through lunch hour; participants are welcome to bring their own lunch for a working lunch or enjoy lunch on their own after the workshop concludes.

Please note: Your payment secures your place in the workshop and is therefore non-refundable. A minimum number of participants is required for workshops to go ahead. If this number is not met, the workshop will be cancelled, and a full refund will be issued.

Bio:

Enzina Marrari is an artist and doctoral student in the Department of Folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. She is the recipient of the 2025 Sue Samuelson Award for Best Student Paper in Foodways, and the 2024 Albert George Hatcher Memorial Scholarship for excellence in graduate studies and research. In 2018, she received the Alaska Journal of Commerce’s Top 40 under 40 award for her work in the arts.

She is a conceptual visual and performance artist whose invisible disability informs much of her work. She is driven by confronting the hard stuff. She creates visual stories to reveal the unspoken, the shameful, the forgotten, and the unseen. Her work often challenges and questions the notions of home, place, self, and community and draws inspiration from the environmental landscape, personal and communal stories, and interpersonal vulnerabilities. She thrives in transforming stories into landscapes, audio narratives, physical experiences, or body works. Her medium is concept-driven and manifests as performance, wearable art, installation, mixed media, and poetry. Marrari has taught classes and workshops to students of all ages and levels.

Marrari is a 2017 Rasmuson Foundation Artist Fellow and a 2015 Connie Boochever Fellow. She has been supported by Arts NL, the Awesome Foundation Alaska Chapter, Rasmuson Foundation, Alaska State Council on the Arts, Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation, and Radical Arts for Women. In 2015, she was nominated for an emerging artist award through the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She has been an artist in residence at the Olive Stack Gallery in Listowel, Ireland; Proyecto ‘ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and the Cill Rialaig Artist Center in Ballinskelligs, Ireland. She is an Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, and was a founding partner at @ Studio C in Anchorage, Alaska.

Marrari received a B.A. in Studio Art (concentration: sculpture and figure drawing) from the University of Alaska Anchorage and an M.A. in Studio Art (concentration: installation and performance) from New York University. She is currently working toward a PhD in Folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador where her research centers on the folklore of grief and loss, death and dying and the intersections of disability, identity, and art. Marrari has been published in the Journal of American Folklore and San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank’s, Community Development Innovation Review.