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Wendy Dison I

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 artists statement:  

My printmaking includes carborundum, drypoint and photo etching and my current work also uses various forms of digital print combined with monoprint, monotype and collage. I like to combine recurring elements with the once only ingredients that make each work in a series unique and unrepeatable. Much of my work is a response to the landscape and history of rural Ireland. The inspiration for this work derives from an engagement with the past as revealed through relics. The abandoned farmhouse of rural Ireland, old photographs and documents, the ephemera of daily live that survives by chance, rusty implements found in ditches and ruined barns, all have stories to tell and ghosts to reveal. The work that emerges may not tell a story in a linear way, it is more likely a meditation on the way the past emerges into the present. I am also a painter, my preferred media being acrylic and graphite. Painting and printmaking each inform the other with ideas crossing back and forth regularly. The use of mixed media which began in my prints is now finding its way into my paintings and I might incorporate pencil or graphite into either as drawing and line are central to my practice.

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selected exhibitions:

solo: 

date	venue	exhibition
Feb/Mar 2007	Ionad Cultúrtha, Ballyvourney, Co Cork	Stone Ghosts
July 2006	Mill Cove Gallery, Castletownebere, Co Cork	Home Places

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group:

date	venue	exhibition
Dec 06/ Jan 07	The Hallward Gallery, Merrion Square, Dublin	Mid-Winter show
2006	Umbrella Studio, Queensland, Australia.	Compact Prints 2006
2006	Nabokov Museum, St Petersburg	Ireland-St Petersburg 2006
2006	West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen Co Cork	West Cork Artists- A Celebration
2005	Mill Cove Gallery, Castletownebere, Co Cork	Gallery Artists
2005	Carlow	Eigse
2005	Limerick Printmakers	Open submission
2005	Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork City	C2: 1995-2005
2004	Waterford Treasures Museum	Continuity
2004	National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny	Feast

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education:

date	college	award
1969-72	Liverpool School of Art	Diploma in Art and Design
1974-75	Bristol Polytechnic	Diploma in Management Studies
1987/88	West Cheshire College	Certificate in Adult Education
1990-92	Crewe College of Higher Education	Postgraduate Certificate in Education
1996-97	Bluecoat School Liverpool	Etching
2003	Santa Reparata, Florence, Italy	Monotype and Solar plate etching

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membership of professional bodies:

date	group	function
1999-2005	West Cork Craft and Design Guild
	Cork Printmakers
	Visual Artists Ireland
	Limerick Printmakers
	Irish Visual Artist’s rights Organisation

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collections:

collection	venue/place
Office Of Public Works	Various venues
Allied Irish Bank
Gordon Products/Earthborn	Frodsham, Cheshire, UK
Bantry General Hospital	Bantry Co Cork

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commissions: 

commissioner	venue/place
Julia Baird	Cavern Enterprises, Liverpool, UK
West Cork Music	Presentation print for Cork School of Music prize Winners
Coomhola Salmon Trust	Illustrations for publication ‘Streamscapes’
Bradt Publications	Illustrations for various travel guides

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