Placrylic™ Art Fair 27th January 2026
The Venue
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Date: 27th January 2026
Time: 6pm - 9pm
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The National Print Museum (Músaem Náisiúnta Cló) in Dublin is Ireland’s dedicated space for the heritage, craft, and technology of printing.
It’s located in the old garrison chapel of Beggar’s Bush Barracks, on Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
It was officially opened in 1996 and was founded by retired printers and printing-industry figures who were keen to preserve disappearing machinery, skills, and history.
The museum houses a representative collection of printing presses, movable type (metal & wood), printing blocks, printed ephemera, and related equipment.
Many of the machines are kept in working condition, and the museum is designed more like a traditional print shop than a sterile display hall — so visitors can often see or even try hands-on printing techniques.
One standout is the Wharfedale stop-cylinder press that was used to print the 1916 Proclamation — the museum holds not only prints but artefacts connected to key moments in Irish history.
The exhibitions often explore not just the mechanical processes, but the social and political influence of print: how posters, pamphlets, newspapers etc. shaped public discourse.
The museum aims to be a “living museum” — actively encouraging learning, workshops, school visits, and skills transfers to new generations.
Many visitors and print enthusiasts describe it as a “hidden gem” for its immersive, tactile, and intimate encounter with a craft that helped shape modern society.
The Placrylic Paints
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To create harmony, all artists will be working from the same colour palette: blue, yellow, green and red
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Placrylic™ is a hybrid fast-drying patented plant paint that behaves similar to the acrylic paint used by artists, however, unlike acrylic paint which is liquid plastic, placrylic is 100% plastic free
Placrylic™ is 100% plants
The Sustainable Paintings
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Coming Soon - check back later
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Origins
The Placrylic 2025 Art Fair invites artists and audiences to explore Origins—the beginnings that shape our present and future. From the origins of climate change in human industry to the ancient origins of our species in the natural world, this theme asks us to look backward in order to move forward.
Artists will consider the spark and spread of wildfires, the shifting roots of forests, the evolution of pandemics, and the fragile balance between human invention and ecological survival. Each work reflects on how beginnings—whether in the soil, the body, or the atmosphere—carry consequences that echo through generations.
At its heart, Origins is a call to trace where we come from and to imagine how awareness of those beginnings might help us create more sustainable, resilient futures
