Hoopaloo

Dublin born artist whose work involves illustration in different media, including traditional print making practices and animation. He studied at the National College of Art & Design specialising in printmaking and subsequently won the Black Church Print Studio Award in 2006. He has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions, including the annual RHA Graduate show and several exhibitions with the Black Church Print Studio, and in 2010 completed a commission of 252 prints for the Gibson Hotel alongside artists such as Charles Cullen and Chris Haughton. To contact, please call +353851751484, or email tom@cerealtom.com Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.