Stephen Lawlor Biography Kwaidan

Born Dublin 1958. Lectured IADT (printmaking & drawing 1991-97) Chairman Graphic Studio Dublin (2000-05). Worked internationally at Guanlan Print Base,

Shenzhen China, Galleri Astley, Sweden, Jyvaskyla Centre for Print, Finland, Paupers Press, London, Hampton Editions, USA & YAC Tianjin, China. Participated

in the 1st International Print Biennial, Lingshi China 2012 & 7th International Biennial Douro Portugal 2014. 1st prize New Grounds International Print, Albuquerque NM,

USA 2013, joint 1st Adogi, 35th Miniprint International Cadaques, Spain 2015. Elected Associate Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers London, (RE) 2016, A founder

member International Academic Print Alliance (IAPA) at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing 2016, elected member of Aosdána 2018. Adjudicator at

Masters in Printmaking 2017-19 at the Royal Academy Antwerp.

Recent Solo Exhibitions

2022 The Sublime Divine Oliver Sears Gallery Dublin

2022 A Liminal State Galleri Astley, SO Fine Art, Hunt Museum Limerick

2020 In the Past Galleri Astley, Vastmanland Sweden

2019 Stephen Lawlor Prints, Epreuve d’Artiste, Antwerp, Belgium

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022 Meanwhile Vaga Se - Galleri Helle Knudsen Stockholm Sweden

2022 WCPF Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair London UK

2021 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition London, UK

2021 Megalo Print Studio Intaglio Online Canberra Australia

2020 Graphics Ireland Galleri Helle Knudsen, Sweden,

2019 Guanlan Internaional Print Biennial, Shenzhen, China

2019 IAPA International Huai’an Art Museum China

2018 Yangtze Art Fair, Nanjing China

2018 2nd Xuyuan International Print Biennial, Beijing, China

2018 Print Rebels Bankside Gallery London UK

2018 IAPA International Print Exhibition, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China

2018 6th Biennial International Center for Contemporary Printmaking, CT, USA

2017 PAD (Art and Design Fair London) UK

2017 Paper Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair 2017 Australia

2016 A Lonely Impulse of Delight Geidai University Tokyo Japan.

Selected Collections:

Allied Irish Bank PLC

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Biblioteca de Catalunya

The British Museum

University College Dublin

The Chester Beatty Library

Douro Museum Portugal

National Gallery of Ireland

The Royal Collection London

Clifford Chance London

Norwegian Space Centre

Huai’an Art Museum, China

Aberystwyth Museum

University of Limerick

Butler Gallery, Kilkenny

China Print Museum

Victoria & Albert Museum

Norrkoping Museum Swed.

The British Library Museum of Literature Irl.

Glen Dimplex Collection

Recent Awards

2019 The Clifford Chance Award, RE Originals 2019

2019 Aberystwyth School of Art Museum & Galleries Prize RE Originals 2019

2017 John Purcell Paper Prize, RE Original Prints 2017