Editorial Policy

Printed Project can be seen as an ongoing collaboration amongst artists, critics and curators, writers and readers devoted to making sense of contemporary art and culture.

Printed Project gathers and presents thought and opinion on issues and arguments that enliven dialogue and debate on art and the wider culture of our present day.

With Printed Project Visual Artists Ireland sets out to meet the need felt within an expanding art industry for a not-for-entertainment art publication. Simple and modest in design and production the journal brings the best of comprehensive thought to bear on the art practice of the present and on the shared consequences artists and audiences face as our culture backs into the future.

Each edition of Printed Project is produced by a different invited Editor / Curator. Each Editor / Curator is specially selected and invited by an independent editorial panel.

The concept of Curator / Editor is one that is closely related to the established way a curator selects works of art and artists to give shape, structure and meaning to an exhibition. While there are understandable limits to the amount and kind of space available and to the monies available, each Curator/Editor is otherwise free to set concepts, select contributors and design the sequence in which the various parts inter-relate to make up a whole.

The invitation to Edit / Curate is made in what we hope are the most open of terms – it is an ambition that each issue of Printed Project convey in the fullest possible way the ideas, issues and practices that the invited curator /editor deems to be of significance. We are prepared to be flexible, patient and ready for surprise in pursuing this experiment.