Michele Hetherington is a Kildare-based Visual Artist and Master Printmaker. Through her practice, Michele contemplates and reflects upon concepts of light and dark, land and time—where perception unfolds rather than resolves. Landscapes emerge and dissolve within shifting shadows and atmosphere, tracing the slow dissolution of matter as light recedes at nightfall. Her practice employs multiple printmaking processes including carborundum, drypoint, and letterpress. Hetherington is a studio member of and the Master Printer for Graphic Studio Dublin, a professional member of Visual Artists Ireland, and her practice is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Fingal County Councils Arts Office. Michele holds an MFA in Fine Art and BA in Printmaking from the National College of Art and Design. Awards include; Arts Council Agility Award, Fingal County Council Artists bursary (2024,2023, 2022,2021,2020) and Fingal County Councils Arts Office Graduate Award. Selected Exhibitions include; Royal Hibernian Academy; Pallas Projects, University of Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan, Klaipeda Cultural Communication Centre, Lithuania, Draíocht; Graphic Studio Gallery; Swords Castle and Lismore Castle Arts. Michele Hetherington's work is held in Public and Private Collections throughout Ireland, Europe, USA and Japan.