Artwork by Lorraine Whelan . . .
Stones, 2017
These books are bound using "stick binding", a variation on Japanese stab binding. The "sticks" were formed in earthenware clay. The prints were pulled at home using a converted pasta machine press.
- edition of 10
- ceramic hand moulded partially glazed earthenware "sticks"
for binding, approximately 11.5 cm x 2 cm x 1 cmm
- handbound, 6-strand cotton thread
- covers are acid free blotting paper, 300 g/m2, approximately
14 cm x 20.5 cm
- intaglio prints on handmade acid-free Indian rag (Khadi) paper,
210 g/m2
- print image size 9 cm x 12.5 cm, five prints per book
- acid-free Fabriano Tiziana Crema, 160 g/m2, endpapers
Artist Statement / Bio
I was born in Toronto, Canada into a large Irish immigrant family. Shortly after obtaining my primary degree in 1986, I moved to Ireland to where my parents and half my siblings had already returned.
My writing (poetry, art criticism & commentary, fiction, non-fiction) has been published in Ireland, Canada, USA, Luxembourg & online.
I have exhibited my artwork throughout Ireland in both solo and group exhibitions and have exhibited in group exhibitions in France, China and Canada. I have participated in artist residencies and symposia and my work is included in private (US, Canada, Australia, UK & Belgium) and in public/corporate collections (Microsoft WPGI, OPW, HSE, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Europol & IBM).
For over 30 years I have created bodies of work that are inspired and challenged by my environment and circumstances, which are regularly in flux. The study and analysis of dreams plays a large part in much of my work and the development of dream imagery informs the iconography used in both visual and verbal work.
I have worked on projects in response to a specific brief, site, concept, or combination of these. I am fascinated with the immediacy of temporary work yet equally interested in archives and permanence. While I consider myself primarily a painter, I love to experience and experiment with any manner of media. I freely use any media to suit an idea, which is the paramount consideration.
I believe that it is through the expression of individual responses to life circumstances that wider truths can be discovered and understood.
I am an artist. I am here. I remember. I draw. I write. I tell stories.