Rebecca Gleeson

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.