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Sharon Lee, Irish, b.1978
Title: Projection Scape [Pru-jek-shuhn-skeyp]
Date: 2016
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions:
Sheet: 46 x 38.1 cm
Plate: 19 x 17 cm
Signed: under plate, lower right (in graphite): Sharon Lee
Credit Line: Purchased, 2019
Object Number: NGI.2019.39.5
DescriptionGraphic Studio Dublin, Fine Art Printmakers, was founded in 1960 to teach traditional printmaking skills then unavailable in Irish art colleges, and to provide studios and technical assistance to artists to make fine art prints. Its founders were Patrick Hickey, Leslie MacWeeney, Liam Miller, Elizabeth Rivers and Anne Yeats. A gallery, known as Graphic Studio Gallery was established in 1988, to promote fine-art printmaking in Ireland and abroad, to educate the public about printmaking, and to exhibit and sell prints on behalf of member artists. It is located off Cope Street in Temple Bar while the Studio is based in an old warehouse building on the North Circular Road.
Graphic Studio Dublin published sponsors’ portfolios from the 1960s to the 1980s. These portfolios consisted of six prints presented in a portfolio and in later publications a poem was also added. These works were produced to raise funds for the running of the studio and were a great success. In 2010 Graphic Studio relaunched the Sponsors' Portfolios as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations. Over ten years, they will publish 10 portfolios (one per year). Each year an edition of 75 bespoke folders is made, each of which contains four prints by Graphic Studio printmakers and invited artists and one piece of writing. Writers have included Jennifer Johnston, John Banville and Colm Toibín.
The commissioned artists and writer in 2016 are: Grainne Cuffe, Sharon Lee, Mary Lohan, Tom Phelan, and the poet Paula Meehan.
This lithograph is by Sharon Lee. Born in Galway, she studied Fine Art Printmaking at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and the Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia. She graduated in 2003 with a first class honours degree, receiving a Graphic Studio Dublin Graduate Award and has been a member since. She was involved in Graphic Studio Dublin Visiting Artist Programme as a printer and collaborator and served on the board of directors from 2006-2008. In 2008 she completed the Master Printer Programme at Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is currently working at the Royal College of Art, London as a lithography and bookbinding technical instructor. She is a member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. She is represented in major collections including National Gallery of Ireland, Chester Beatty Library and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Graphic Studio Dublin published sponsors’ portfolios from the 1960s to the 1980s. These portfolios consisted of six prints presented in a portfolio and in later publications a poem was also added. These works were produced to raise funds for the running of the studio and were a great success. In 2010 Graphic Studio relaunched the Sponsors' Portfolios as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations. Over ten years, they will publish 10 portfolios (one per year). Each year an edition of 75 bespoke folders is made, each of which contains four prints by Graphic Studio printmakers and invited artists and one piece of writing. Writers have included Jennifer Johnston, John Banville and Colm Toibín.
The commissioned artists and writer in 2016 are: Grainne Cuffe, Sharon Lee, Mary Lohan, Tom Phelan, and the poet Paula Meehan.
This lithograph is by Sharon Lee. Born in Galway, she studied Fine Art Printmaking at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and the Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia. She graduated in 2003 with a first class honours degree, receiving a Graphic Studio Dublin Graduate Award and has been a member since. She was involved in Graphic Studio Dublin Visiting Artist Programme as a printer and collaborator and served on the board of directors from 2006-2008. In 2008 she completed the Master Printer Programme at Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is currently working at the Royal College of Art, London as a lithography and bookbinding technical instructor. She is a member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. She is represented in major collections including National Gallery of Ireland, Chester Beatty Library and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Inscriptionunder plate, lower left, in graphite: 17/75