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Rebecca Gleeson - Dropped Objects: Ski Stick
Estimate:
€50 - €100
Sold
€50
Timed Auction
Arthouse 2024 - Day 1
ARTIST
Rebecca Gleeson
Size
19cm x 29cm
Category
Description
About artist: Rebecca Gleeson’s work explores themes of isolation, memory, distance, and narrative.
These concerns have been addressed through the use of polar imagery and landscapes most recently, but they have also been explored through seascapes, image appropriation, found materials, and making use of archival or museum presentation methods.
Gleeson currently is working primarily through stone lithography. This process is very drawing focused, and the slow processing times give a lot of time for contemplation; seeking synchronicity between desired outcomes and the spontaneity that this chemical-based print process provides. Recently Gleeson has been investigating combining print with more multimedia approaches; incorporating more interactive mixed media aspects, and exploring other disciplines that spin-off from printmaking: like film, and bookforms.
Gleeson graduated from Dublin’s National College of Art & Design in 2021. Since then she has been a member of the Black Church Print Studio in Dublin. Exhibiting highlights include, ‘Monochromatic’ in the Graphic Studio Dublin Gallery 2024, ‘Small Things Like These’ in the LHQ Gallery, Cork in 2023, and ‘Emerging Practice’, in The Library Project, Dublin in 2022.
About artwork: The artwork is a small mezzotint print created as part of a series for Gleeson's graduate exhibition. The exhibition itself was a (fake) museum exhibit detailing a lost Antarctic exhibition from the early 1900s, using the vast, empty polar landscape as a metaphor, as well as an opportunity to investigate how the public idea of history gets created. The print itself is meant to represent one of the objects dropped and left behind by the explorers as they travelled, and is part of a series of 6 different objects. The slow steady work of mezzotinting - preparing the plate, followed by having to burnish it back to create an image - reflects the slow grueling work of those manhauling.
Website: https://rebeccagleeson.wixsite.com/my-site
Instagram handle:: @rmg_print
Edition: Yes; 1 of 12
About artwork: The artwork is a small mezzotint print created as part of a series for Gleeson's graduate exhibition. The exhibition itself was a (fake) museum exhibit detailing a lost Antarctic exhibition from the early 1900s, using the vast, empty polar landscape as a metaphor, as well as an opportunity to investigate how the public idea of history gets created. The print itself is meant to represent one of the objects dropped and left behind by the explorers as they travelled, and is part of a series of 6 different objects. The slow steady work of mezzotinting - preparing the plate, followed by having to burnish it back to create an image - reflects the slow grueling work of those manhauling.
Website: https://rebeccagleeson.wixsite.com/my-site
Instagram handle:: @rmg_print
Edition: Yes; 1 of 12
Condition
Excellent Condition
Medium
Mezzotint
Signature
Yes
