Rebecca Gleeson
ID PLATE – the missing men
Etching, 14.8 x 21cm
Aurora Australis
Intaglio, 70 x 49.7cm
Untitled (Ice)
Monoprint, 21 x 29.7cm
Untitled Monoprint
Relief ink monoprinted onto black card. Dimensions: 105 x 149 cm Single Edition
Found Objects
Mezzotints on torn down Somerset Paper. Edition of 10
Installation Image
NCAD Final Year Degree Show
Biography
Rebecca Gleeson is a Dublin based artist, with a focus on printmaking and illustration. They graduated from the National College of Art and Design, in 2021 with a BA Honoursin Fine Art Printmaking and Critical Cultures, and has been a member of Black Church Print Studio since 2021.
Statement
My work grows from themes of escapism, history, disappearance and distance.
I’ve approached these themes so far primarily through setting up narratives; for my graduate project, I constructed the story of a lost Antarctic expedition. I used this narrative to frame my prints as fragments of something lost. Like this, I have been using print processes to act as a way of accessing the past, or fantasy, and bring it forward. I focus on copper plate intaglio printmaking techniques, and favour more manual, time-consuming processes, like mezzotinting. As my practice progresses, I would like to continue to explore different ways of printmaking, particularly more hands-on approaches.