Lorraine Neeson is an Irish Artist working with Lens Based Media, Light, Sound and Installation. She creates multi-sensory environments that disrupt and disorient spatial and temporal logic. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She lives and works in Ireland.
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Education
2003-2005 MFA The Slade School of Fine Art, London.
2001-2002 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork.
1998-2001 Diploma Fine Art, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2016/2017
Current, Solo Show, Sirius Art Centre, Cobh
2012
Day for Night, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
2010
A Certain Slant of Light, Triskel @ESB Substation, Cork
2003
Obscura, Siamsa Tire, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 -2021
Wom@rts Roaming Exhibition, Maribor, Slovenia (April 2019), Vilnius Lithuania (July, 2019), Santiago de Compostela, Spain (November, 2019), Grand Angeloume, France (January, 2020), Rijeka, Croatia (May 2020), Aviles, Spain (August 2020), Limerick, Ireland (2021)
2020
MINK (Moving Image network Kerry). Group exhibition at ANAM Arts & Culture Centre in Killarney with Eavan Aiken, Jennifer Redmond, Treasa O’Brien, Lisa Fingleton, Laura Fitzgerald, Michael Holly, Gareth Kennedy, Julie Lovett, Lorraine Neeson, Sean Rea, Mieke Vanmechelen.
2018
Lux: Light Art in Ireland, Group show with Margaret O’ Brien, Helen McMahon, Helena Hamilton, Kevin Killen, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, curated by Davey Moor, 10 November – 21 December
2017
Golden Record, Galway International Arts Festival, Galway Arts Centre,
17 – 30 July, Dorothy Cross, Laura de Burca, Ed Devane, Jane Locke, Susan MacWilliam, Lucy McKenna, Suzanne Mooney, Lorraine Neeson, Paul Nugent, Niamh O’ Malley, Richard Proffitt, Jennifer Walshe
2017
Art Works, The Hotron Open Submission and Art Prize, 7June – 3 September, Visual, Carlow
2016
New Century Retro, Claremorris
2015
Silver, (Part 3), Group Exhibition, West Cork Arts Centre, curated by Ann Davoren
2015
Silver, (Part 2), Group Exhibition, Garter Lane, Waterford, curated by Breda Lynch and Michael Byrne
2015
Deadeye Group Show with Martin Healy and Niamh O’ Malley, curated by Paul McAree, Rua Red
2015
The Mind is the Screen, Group show with John Smith, James L. Hayes, Hannah Fitz, Aaron Stapleton, K-Fest Killorglin, curated by Sophie Behal and Maeve Lynch
2015
I See a Darkness, Group Show with Niamh O’ Malley, Paul Nugent, Eleanor Duffin, Nicky Teegan, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, travelling to Dunamaise Art Centre, Portlaoise
2014
Foundation 14, Tullamore, Offaly
2014
All That Remains to be Seen, 5-21June, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2013
Ordinary Things, CCAD, Gallery, Wandesford Quay, Cork
2013
Locked in, Locked Out, New Living Art IV, IMOCA, Dublin
2013
PrintEd. Here, LSAD Gallery, Limerick
2013
Backwards into Paradise, FLOOD, Dublin, curated by Paul McAree
2013
Repetition, Monster Truck and Cross Gallery, Dublin, curated by Margaret O‘ Brien
2013
Future Perfect, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, curated by Jim Ricks
2012
Claremorris Open, selected by Mike Collier
2012
Television, Tactic Gallery, Cork, curated by Sarah Lundy
2012
Aether, Lorraine Neeson, Noelle Noonan, Debbie Godsell, Catherine Hehir, Macroom Town Hall
2011
24 Hours, Art Trail, Cork
2011
Place, Space, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, curated by Julia Jansen and Tony O’ Connor
2011
New Living Art Exhibition 11, IMOCA, Dublin
2011
Have you seen a Monkey ?, Banagher, Co. Offaly
2011
In-Flux Art Fair, Occupy space, Limerick
2011
You Are Here, Sam Keogh, Brad Troemel, Lorraine Neeson, The Workhouse Test, Kilkenny
2011
Out of a Box, G126, Galway
2010
COE, Claremorris, Ireland 2010, selected by Lisa Le Feuvre
2010
New Living Art Exhibition, IMOCA, Dublin
2010
Backwater 2010, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
2010
Projected, The Other Place, Cork
2010
Invisible, Blackchurch Print Studio, Dublin, Various Venues
2007
COE 2007, Claremorris, Ireland, selected by Ingrid Swenson (Prizewinner)
2007
Mapping The Urban Psyche, The Artists’ Studios, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007
No.w.here Screening, Arts Unwrapped, Kingsgate Gallery, London
2006
COE, Claremorris Ireland, selected by Jeremy Millar
2006
The Birmingham School of Business School
2006
Black: Implication Flooding, Colony, Birmingham.
2005
Day of Damaged Goods, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2005
All at Once, Together, at the Same Time, Colony, Birmingham.
2005
CP3, London Print Studio.
2005
COE, Claremorris, Ireland, selected by Andrea Schlieker
2005
MFA Degree Show, The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London.
2005
C2, Group Show, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
2004
International Biennial Exhibition of Chalcography, Palazzo delle Prigioni, San Marco, Venice.
2004
The International Exchange Exhibition, Hunter College Art Galleries, Times Square, New York.
2004
Video Installation, The Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
2004
Interim Show, The Slade School of Fine Art, London.
2004
Inside Out, Temple Bar Galleries, Dublin, Ireland.
2003
US Live Guinness Store House, Dublin, Ireland.
2003
Impressions, Exhibition of Contemporary prints, OPW Collection (touring).
2002
Crawford Open 3, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
2002
Group Show, Siamsa Tire, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
2002
Art Trail, Tig Fili, Cork, Ireland.
2002
RDS Student Awards exhibition, Dublin, Church Gallery, Limerick IT and Ulster University Gallery, Ireland.
2002
Fledglings, Group Show, Lavit Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
2002
8th Wexford Artists’ Books Exhibition, Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland.
2002
Degree Show, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork.
Awards and Residencies
2016 Kerry County Council, Visual Arts Bursary Award
2012 Kerry County Council, Visual Arts Bursary Award
2011 Shortlisted 2012 / 2013 Emerging Visual Artist Award (EVA), Wexford Arts Centre
2011 Kerry County Council Art Bursary Award
2010 Kerry County Council Art Bursary Award
2007 Prizewinner, Claremorris Open, 2007
2007 Kerry County Council Art Bursary Award
2005/06 Adrian Carruthers Studio Award 2005/2006, selected by Ed Allington, John Hilliard, John Aiken, Bruce McLean, Tom Lubbock and ACME Studios London
2003/04 AHRB, UK.
2003/04 Bank of Ireland Millennium Scholarship Award.
2003 Kerry Co. Council, Materials Bursary Award.
2002 Ciaran Langford Memorial Award.
2002 Barry Moloney Memorial HETAC Award.
2002 Crawford College of Art and Design, Thesis Award.
2002 Studio Award at National Sculpture Factory, Cork.
2002 Studio Award Bursary at Backwater Studios, Cork.
2001/02 Consultus Scholarship Award.
Publications and Articles
2019 Seeing the Light, Renata Pekowska, VAI News Sheet, March, April, 2019
2018 Lux, Davey Moor, Irish Arts Review, Winter edition 2018
2012 Something in the Air, Tina O Sullivan, Irish Examiner, July 18th 2012
2012 Aether, Catalogue Essays by Theo Dorgan and Dara Waldron
2010 Deconstruction after Deconstruction, Lorraine Neeson’s A Certain Slant of Light, Essay by Dr. Dara Waldron
2010 SuperMassiveBlackhole, Issue 5/2010
2010 FACT, National Sculpture Factory, Lorraine Neeson, A Certain Slant of Light and A Conversation with Lorraine Neeson
2010 A Certain Slant of Light, review, Irish Examiner by Marc O’ Sullivan
2008 Representing Art in Ireland: Fenton Gallery, 2008
2005 C2 Contemporary Art in Cork, Gandon Editions, 2005.
2004 Fenton Gallery Review, Irish Times, Mark Ewart
2003 Impressions, Contemporary Prints, OPW Publications, 2003
2003 Crawford Open 1-4, Gandon Editions, 2003
2003 Circa, Contemporary Visual Culture in Ireland No. 103
2003 The No Theme Theme, Lorraine Neeson by Mark Ewart, Sculptors’ Society of Ireland Newsletter, 2003
Public Collections
Cork City Council, Ireland.
Crawford College of Art and Design Artists’ Books Library Collection, Ireland.
OPW Government Collection, Ireland.
National College of Art and Design Visual Arts Library, Ireland.
Commissions
Connection, Eason’s Hill, Cork City, Commissioned by Cork City Council, 2003
Light Installation, Tramore Coastguard Station, Commissioned by O.P.W., 2003
Academic
2012 - Current
Programme Leader and Lecturer Fine Art Photography, Film, Video
Lecturer Print Contemporary Practice, Limerick School of Art and Design, LIT, Limerick
2012- 2015
External Examiner, Waterford Institute of Technology, Creative and Performing Arts, 2012 - 2015
2009
Programmatic Review Panel Member, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork
2009
Visiting Lecturer, NCAD, Dublin, Ireland
2007- 2009
Lecturer in Print, Limerick College of Art and Design, Ireland
2007
Visiting Lecturer, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland
2005-2006
Assistant Lecturer in Sculpture and Combined Media, Limerick College of Art and Design LIT, Ireland
2005
Summer School and Alternative Foundation. The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London W1 6BT