ABOUT
ARTISTS STATEMENT​
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My work centres on themes of escapism, disappearance, memory and distance. I find it difficult to imagine a disappearance without becoming aware of the space left empty. That gap can be something separating things, or something to embrace and be swallowed up by - to disappear into. I’ve approached these themes through setting up narratives; most recently, for my graduate project, I constructed the story of a lost Antarctic expedition. I used this narrative to frame my prints as fragments of something lost. Like this, I’m using print processes to act as a way of accessing the past, or fantasy, and bring it forward.
I focus on copper plate intaglio printmaking techniques, and favour more manual, time-consuming processes, like mezzotinting, or creeping bites. As my practice progresses, I would like to continue to explore different ways of printmaking, particularly the more hands-on approaches like lithography.
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
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Rebecca Gleeson is a Dublin based artist, with a focus on printmaking and illustration. They graduated from the National College of Art and Design, in 2021 with a BA Honours in Fine Art Printmaking and Critical Cultures. In 2019 they had work shown as part of a college group-exhibition in the In-spire Galerie on Gardiner Street; as well as work on display in the Black Church Print Cabinet in Temple Bar, Dublin. As of 2021, they are a member of the Black Church Print Studio.
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ARTIST'S CV
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Member of Black Church Print Studio since 2021
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EDUCATION:
2023 - Interned at Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, Ballinskelligs, Kerry
2021 - Graduated with a BA International (First Class Hons.) in Fine Art Printmaking & Critical Cultures, from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
2020 - Erasmus+ Placement in the University of Zagreb’s Academy of Fine Arts
AWARDS, BURSARIES AND OTHER EXPERIENCE:
2020 - Painted an ESB box for Dublin Canvas at Taney Crossroads (Luas Bridge), Dublin 14
2019 - Tales Urbane, Black Church Print Undergraduate Cabinet Award, Temple Bar, Dublin
2015 - Illustrated a Story in a Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council-sponsored Comic Book
EXHIBITIONS:
2023 - The Director’s Cut, Part of the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Online Exhibition
- Prints accepted into Cadaqués’ 43rd International Mini Print Exhibition
2022 - Emerging Practice, Group Exhibition of Black Church Print Studio members, The Library Project, Dublin
- Several works on display in the HALFTONE Print Fair, The Library Project, Dublin
2021 - The Oracle Expedition, NCAD Works Graduate Exhibition [Online]
2019 - Group Exhibition of 2nd Year Print Students at InSpire Gallery, Gardiner Street, Dublin
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