About Us

Wandesford Quay CLG is a management company formed by Cork City Council in 2000, to administrate the management of the Wandesford Quay Complex which houses three arts organisations: Backwater Artists Group, Cork Printmakers & The Lavit Gallery. The complex features studios, art-making facilities, galleries, and offices.

Artist Resources

Cork Printmakers

Cork Printmakers is a professional print studio, gallery and resource organisation providing professional artists with the space, technical equipment, expertise & specialist materials needed to make works of excellence from conception to production to public presentation. The organisation was set up in 1991 to meet the needs of both established and emerging Cork-based artist printmakers without access to studio facilities. Cork Printmakers currently supports over 128 artists from Cork, Munster, Ireland, and beyond, offering a creative space at Wandesford Quay, Cork City. Here, artists can create, collaborate, experiment, and develop ideas, while making, teaching, exhibiting, and selling their artwork.

Backwater Artists

Backwater Artists Group is an artist-led organisation, located on Wandesford Quay, in the heart of Cork City. Our mission is to support and advocate for visual artists, allowing them to thrive, to foster a deep appreciation and enthusiasm for the visual arts within the community and to keep sites of production at the heart of Cork city. We are a key fixture in Cork’s cultural landscape, and we sustain a thriving visual arts community. We currently have 100 artists in our various memberships. Since our inception in 1990, we have supported the practices of over 500 artists, including 150+ early career artists.

Lavit Gallery

Lavit Gallery: Cork Arts Society (est 1963), trading as Lavit Gallery, is a not-for-profit arts organisation, registered charity and CLG dedicated to promoting an appreciation of art in Cork City through the provision of a gallery space in which artists can exhibit their artwork for public patronage. Lavit Gallery also serves the art community and the public through its non-commercial activities such as art installations, artist talks, exhibition tours, continued professional development and the provision of two graduate awards given annually to students at MTU Crawford College of Art & Design.

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