Small Night is a studio, in a garage, in the south east of Ireland, which, for the last five years has screen-printed artists’ ideas & images for dissemination through zine & exhibition. It is a modest setup, one beset by technical constraints & limitations, but with raw possibilities. We, the artist-editors, Alan Phelan, Laura Fitzgerald, James Merrigan & Christopher Steenson, are motivated by artists & alternative matrices, from print to performance.
Small Night Projects (est. 2019)
smallnight.org | smallnightzine@gmail.com
Text Art-Based Publications
TNTNTNT Box Set (TONE, TOLD, TEXT & TALK), 2024. Edition of 10.
Created for Librairie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France.
TALK, 2023. Featured Artists: Cem A., Darren Bader, John Giorno, John Latham (courtesy of Flat Time House and John Latham Estate), Naomi Sex, Susan MacWilliam. Edition of 130, pp. 52.
Specially-commissioned by curator Pádraic E. Moore for I’ll Be Your Mirror event series, as part of the Andy Warhol retrospective Three Times Out, Hugh Lane Dublin City Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (6 October 2023 – 28 January 2024).
TEXT, 2023. Featured Artists: Orla Barry, Tony Cokes, Erik Van Lieshout, Adrian Piper, Paul Roy, Cesar Van Pinsett. Edition of 130, pp. 52.
TOLD, 2022. Featured Artists: Fiona Banner, Eide Einarsson, Claire Fontaine, Jaki Irvine, Darran McGylnn, Walker & Walker. Edition of 130, pp. 52.
TONE, 2022. Featured Artists: Laura Fitzgerald, Alan Phelan, Jack Pierson, Laure Prouvost, Mark Verabioff, Isobel Wohl. Edition of 130, pp. 52.
Other Art Publications
creATuRe Zine, featuring artists: Ciara Roche, Marcel Vidal, Olivia Normile, Uma Breakdown, Patrick Redmond, Martin Maloney, Tamara Gagnus, Corrine Yonce. periphery space, Gorey School of Art. Edition of 50, pp. 68.
Brian Teeling, c-space, 2023, artist publication. Edition of 50, pp. 32
Patrick Redmond, Golden Arches, 2023, artist publication. Edition of 50, pp. 32
Gregory Battcock, It’s stopped snowing, 2021, artist publication, selected by Vincent Passerat, curator of CAS#5. Presented at New York Queer Zine Fair, 2022. Edition of 100, pp. 12
WEAREFETISHISTS, artist publication accompanying exhibition of the same name, featuring: Ursula Burke, Marian Balfe, Kian Benson Bailes, Austin Hearne, Locky Morris, Fiona Reilly, Emma Roche, Celine Sheridan, Brian Teeling, 2022. Edition of 50, pp. 52.
Marian Balfe, In Remembrance, 2022, artist publication. Edition of 50, pp. 24.
Celine Sheridan, A Wonderful Love & Horrible, 2022, artist publication. Edition of 50, pp. 24.
Locky Morris, Block Basics, 2022, artist publication. Edition of 50, pp. 24.
Shot in Silk, featuring selection of artists presented at Pallas Projects/Studios exhibition, ARRANGEMENTS, 2020. Edition of 30, pp.32.
Emma Roche, Grey Wall, 2020, artist, publication. Edition of 50, pp. 24.
Lily Cahill & David Fagan, Operation Boomtown, 2019. Edition of 50, pp. 24.
Jessica Conway & Catherine Barragry, Visceral Romance, 2019, artist publication. Edition of 50, pp. 32.
Laura Fitzgerald & Katharine Barrington, Lost Person Behaviour, 2019, artist publication. Edition of 50, pp. 48.
Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson aka Terminal Beach (invited by Katherine Waugh), Zine Records, 2019, artist publication. Edition of 50, pp. 48.
Alan Phelan & Philipp Gufler, Stripes Etc., 2019, artist publication. Edition of 50, pp. 24.
Exhibitions & Events
TNTNTNT Box Set Launch, Librairie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France. 19 March 2024.
Dublin Art Book Fair: Polyphonic, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 7–17 December 2023.
I’ll Be Your MIrror (Part II) – TALK Publication Launch, Hugh Lane Dublin City Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. 2 December 2023. Curated by Pádraic E. Moore, as part of Andy Warhol, Three Times Out, Hugh Lane Dublin City Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (6 October 2023 – 28 January 2024).
Lined Out, Emma Roche with Small Night Projects, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Ireland. 20 January — 11 March 2023
TEXT Publication Launch, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. 3 May 2023.
Dublin Art Book Fair: A Caring Matter, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 24 November – 4 December 2022
TOLD Publication Launch, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. 5 October 2022.
TONE Publication Launch, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland. 8 July 2022
WEAREFETISHISTS, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, Ireland. 6 August – 24 September 2022
ARRANGEMENTS, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland. 21 – 29 November 2019. Curated by Small Night Projects (James Merrigan). Featuring 35 artists and 6 collaborative zines.
Awards & Funding
Culture Ireland, 2024
Project Award, Arts Council, 2022
Dublin City Council Arts Grant, 2022
Project Award, Arts Council, 2019
Small Night Projects – Personnel
James Merrigan (founder, est. 2019)
Curator, Editor, Printmaker
Alan Phelan, artist (Joined 2021)
Co-Editor
Laura Fitzgerald (Joined 2021)
Co-Editor
Christopher Steenson (Joined 2024)
Co-Editor