Leonie King

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lk6Leonie King has been a lecturer in printmaking and an organiser of print exhibitions in Galway such as ‘Western Artists’ and ‘Akin’. She was a founder of Impressions Print Triennial. Her work is in many private and public collections.

Since college Leonie King has travelled extensively. She has spent time in South America, India and Morocco. Foreign images and colours are brought home and blended with those of the Irish landscape: its patterns and textures and mists.

An awareness of the past transparently overlaid on the present is part of the underlying notion of her work and pertains to the sense of eternity, stretching both backwards and forwards. Her work is an endless balancing of dynamics, of coloured texture over variant coloured texture.

Her inspiration comes from an interacting of the emotional with reflections of the surrounding area, both present and past. The effervescent colour changes of the sea and land transpose themselves into multi-layered prints that are responses to a communing with soil, rock, and that which ekes out an existence on it, and underneath the surface of the earth.

Education

London College of Printing 1972-1975
Central School of Art and Design 1975-1976

Solo Exhibitions

2005
Norman Villa Gallery, Galway
Custom House Gallery, Westport

1993
Grainstore Gallery, Galway

1992
Hard Rock Gallery, Clare

Exhibitions participated

2017
Impressions Print show, Galway
Hamilton Gallery, Sligo

2016
Impressions Book show, Galway
Russell Gallery, Ballyvaughn
Hamilton Gallery, Sligo Yeats

2015
Royal Academy Summer Show, London
Thirsk Gallery, Yorkshire
Impressions Biennale, Galway

2014
Galway Arts Festival Gallery, Galway
Le Penitant Blanch, Ville de Vence

2013
Akin Committee de Regions, Brussels

2012
Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin
The Sea The sea Kenny’s Gallery, Galway

2011
A word in your eye, Kenny’s Gallery, Galway

2010
Arus Eanna ten year group show, Inisherr, Aran

2008
Inishbofin Arts Festival, Bofin
Cliften Arts Festival, Cliften

2007
Royal Academy Summer Show, London
Akin Norman villa Galery, Galway
Cliften Arts Festival, Cliften
Oliver St John Gogarty, Renvyle House

2006
Donne International, Italy
Bride Gallery, Killarney
The Limerick Print show, Limerick
Project 06, Galway

2005
Royal Academy Summer show, London
Lorient Festival gallerie Faouedic, Lorient
Realm, 3 person show Cliften arts festival, Cliften

2004
Cliften Arts Festival, Cliften
Impressions print show, Galway arts festival

2003
Inishbofin Arts Festival, Bofin
Akin Galway Arts Festival, Galway
Impressions Print show, Galway
Akin travelling, Killmallock, Dungarven, Tallaght, Siris, Listowel, Garter Lane, Armagh, Baillieborough

2002
Impressions Print Biennale, Galway

2000
Limerick Small Print Winner, Limerick
Small Print, Spain
Cliften Arts Centre, Cliften
Human rights centre, Galway
University of Seattle, Washington state
Pacific University Seattle, Washington State Convention Trade Centre
The Victoria Port Townsend, Seattle Residency

1999
Royal Academy Summer Show, London
Iontas, Claremorris
Akin, Spiddal library
Cliften Arts Festival, Cliften

1997
Rome American University, Rome
Cliften Arts Festival, Cliften
Claremorris
Irish Club, London
Galway Arts Festival, Galway

1996
The Water is Wide Festival Interceltique de Lorient

1995
Iontas, Claremorris
Monaghan open Akin Galway
Arts Festival Lorient
Impressions Print Exhibition

1994
Atlantic Art Encounter, France
Iontas, Sligo
Images, Galway Arts Festival

1993
Mullaghmore show, Ballyvaughan
Galway printmakers
Arts centre, Mullingar
Carol Gallery, Longford
Moore Gallery, Athlone
Western Renmains Arts festival, Galway

1993
Irish centre, London

Private Collections

New York, Toronto, Paris, Nice, London, Ireland

Public Collections

London University Library,
Gower Street Bank Of Ireland
National University Ireland, Galway
Galway County Council