Sioban Piercy has taught, written about, curated, promoted and made work through the medium of print for over thirty years. She has been lecturer/artist in residence across Europe and the USA and headed the Printmaking Department at the Centre for Creative Arts and Media, Galway from 2003 to 2018. Her work has received awards from the International Print Triennial in Cracow; the Printmakers Council of Britain; the Royal College of Art, London, the British School at Rome and is in collections of the Ashmolean, Oxford; the Instituto Nationale Per la Grafica, Rome; the Arts Council of Ireland; Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt.