Artwork by Lorraine Whelan . . .
Writing by Lorraine Whelan
Lorraine Whelan writes poetry, fiction, art criticism & commentary and memoir. Her work has been published in journals in print and online. In addition to other social media, Lorraine writes the weekly Substack blog, Culture, Craft & Cooking.
Here are links to some of Lorraine's writing
that is available online:
Art Criticism
Oct
2019: CIRCA online, review of Tomnafinnoge Sculpture Symposium,
Tinahely
May
2019: CIRCA online, review of Judy Foley: Foreign Body at The O'Reilly
Institute, TCD
Feb
2018: CIRCA online, review of William Crozier: The Edge of the Landscape
at IMMA
Dec
2016: CIRCA online, review of Christopher Mahon: You Can't Unsee
Something at The Lambert Puppet Theatre
Oct
2016: CIRCA online, review of Jane Locke: Illustrated Walks in the
Botanic Gardens at The Botanic Gardens Dublin
Non-Fiction
April
2019: Abstract Magazine, "Holding It Together", memoir
Fiction
Fall
2021: Emerald City Review, Issue 4, "Hamburg Train Station at Midnight"
short story
Spring
2018: Tales From The Forest, Issue 7:Continuity, "Prayers for My
Children", short story
Poetry
March
2021: Mediterranean Review, "Clouds Over the Sea", "Catherine's
Ashes", "The Cove"
Oct
2020: Tales from the Forest, Issue 12: Time, "The Bouquet's Last
Days"
August
2020: Angel City Review, Issue 9, "Grief", "Trio"
Jan
2020: Dwell Time Press, "Coronavirus Park", "Lockdown", "Pandemic
Lockdown"
Feb
2020: Tales from the Forest, Issue 11: Lore, "Somewhere Between
Lillehammer and Trondheim"
Nov
2019: As You Were: The Military Review, Vol 11, "First Drill"
July
2019: Pangolin Review,Issue 11, "Grandma's Stories"
Feb
2019: Poetry Sound Library, "Portrait"
Jan
2019: Scarlet Leaf Review, "Thingvellir at Night", "Noticing Heaven",
"near Greystones"
Dec
2018: Corvus Review, Issue 11 Fall/Winter, "Shedding Skin"
Nov
2018: Tales from the Forest, Issue 9: Limits, "Sonic Boom"
Oct
2017: Tales from the Forest, Issue 6: Beginnings, "First Visit to
Dingle"
June
2017: Honest Ulsterman (HU), "Submergence"
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.