Graphic Studio Gallery
Cope Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
View from 26th April – 31st May. Opening night 1st May, 6pm.
Graphic Studio Gallery is pleased to curate Leaning on the Line, an exhibition of original compositions in print media by artists that use line as an essential element in their work. Whilst the term Line is frequently used in reference to print making, the curators of this exhibition (Peter Brennan, Graphic Studio Gallery, and Catherine Daunt, British Museum) were after something else.
‘Leaning on the Line focuses on the rhythmic, pattern-based qualities of line as a compelling component in the selected compositions.’ – Peter Brennan
The exhibition, at Graphic Studio Gallery, is selected from studio members of Print Network Ireland, which comprises Ireland’s largest print studios: Black Church Print Studio, Cork Printmakers, Graphic Studio Dublin and Limerick Printmakers.
Leaning on the Line features work by:
Anita Geaney, Ann Kavanagh, Cecilia D’Alessandro, Clodagh Twomey, Conor Gallagher, Derval Carroll, Dominic Fee, Dylan Buckley, Eileen Kennedy, Feargal Cunningham, Grainne Cuffe, Helen O’Sullivan, John Graham, Kate MacDonagh, Ludmilla Kalinka, Marie-Louise Martin, Mary O’Connor, Matthew Gammon, Melissa Ellis, Monika Crowley, Niamh Flanagan, Nick Boon, Paula Fitzpatrick, Rachel Merrigan, Shane O’Driscoll, Sharon Lee, Sinead McGuinness, Sophia O’Sullivan, Yoko Akino, Tomasz Knapik.
‘The exhibition showcases the work of around thirty artists who lean on the line in a variety of ways, from using dominant lines to achieve definition, modelling and texture in a figurative work, to creating abstract compositions underpinned by the grid or a series of parallel lines.’ – Catherine Daunt
Catherine is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Prints at the British Museum. The museum is home to one of the greatest collections of works on paper in the world, consisting of about 50,000 drawings and more than 2 million prints, that chart the development of the graphic arts in Europe from the 1400s to the present day. Catherine works across the museum’s collection of Western prints and drawings made in the 20th and 21st centuries, with a particular interest in British and American art and a focus on printmaking.
