Stephen Lawlor was born in Dublin in 1958 and is an honours graduate of its National College of Art and Design

National College of Art and Design

The National College of Art and Design is a national art and design school in Dublin, Ireland.-History:Situated on Thomas Street, the NCAD started as a private drawing school and has become a national institution educating over 1,500 day and evening students as artists, designers and art educators...

 from 1980-1983. During the eighties he taught in Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology

Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology

IADT - Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology is located at Dún Laoghaire, Ireland was established in 1997 and incorporated the former Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design as its School of Creative Arts.-Campus:...

 Dublin, his work during this time was based on the figure of the horse

Horse

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 which he developed through drawings etchings, lithographs

Lithography

Lithography is a method for printing using a stone or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface...

 and monotypes

Monotyping

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. An accomplished painter as well as a master printer, Lawlor has recently started to make sculpture

Sculpture

Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

 in bronze

Bronze

Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...

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He has had solo shows in Ireland

Ireland

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, England

England

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 and the U.S.A.

United States

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 and has participated in numerous International Group exhibitions. His work is in private collections in the U.S.A., Australia

Australia

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, The Far East

Far East

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 and most of Europe

Europe

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He has been a member of Graphic Studio Dublin since 1984 and is its current Chairman.

Selected solo exhibitions

• 2006 Landscape, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
• 2005 Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
• 2005 Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
• 2003 Recent Paintings Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
• 1997 Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
• 1997 Yello Gallery, Chicago
• 1997 Hillsborough Fine Art, Dublin
• 1993 Pantheon Gallery, Dublin
• 1990 Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda
• 1990 Talent Store Gallery, London

Selected group exhibitions

• 2004 Paintings and Prints, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2002 Northern Ljus Stockholm, Sweden
• 2001 Galleri Hippo, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2000 Triennale Mondiale Paris, France
• 1999 Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon
• 1999 R.H.A. Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
• 1999/8 The Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, London
• 1998 Irish Heritage, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlottsville, N. Carolina
• 1998 Art into Art, National Gallery, Dublin
• 1998 International Ex., Stockholm, Sweden
• 1998 5 Printmakers, Frank Lewis Gallery, Killarney
• 1997 The Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, London
• 1997 Trinnale Mondiale Chamalieres, France
• 1997 Out of Ireland, Keenesaw State University, Georgia, U.S.A.
• 1996 Yello Gallery, Cork
• 1995 The Print Initiative, (8 shows around Ireland)
• 1994 A Sense of Ireland, Hong Kong
• 1993 Dublin Graphics, Alvar Aalto Museum, Finland
• 1992 Edition One, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
• 1991 European Large Format Printmaking, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin
• 1989 International Miniprint Exhibition, R.H.A. Gallery, Dublin
• 1989 Ernesto Besso Foundation, Rome
• 1986 A Sense of Ireland, Singapore
• 1985 Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China

Awards

• 1989 Award Winner, International Miniprint Exhibition, R.H.A. Gallery, Dublin
• 1989 Arts Council Travel Award, Finland
• 1993 Dept. of Foreign Affairs, Travel Award, Singapore
• 1997 Arts Council Travel Award, Chicago
• 1999 Print Award, Prizewinner, R.H.A. Dublin

Collections

• Allied Irish Banks
  Allied Irish Banks
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• Citibank
  Citibank
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• Gilbeys Ireland Ltd
• Irish Computers
• Irish Management Institute
  Irish Management Institute
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• Great Southern Hotels Group
• Dublin City University
  Dublin City University
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  • Dark Horse (Hyperion)
• Office of Public Works
• Butler Gallery
  Butler Gallery
  Butler Gallery is an art gallery in Kilkenny, Ireland, with a collection of works by important Irish and international artists from the present day back to the 18th century. Artists represented include Nathaniel Hone, Louis le Brocquy, Jack Butler Yeats, Barrie Cooke, Tony O'Malley, Mainie Jellett,...
  
  , Kilkenny
• The Smurfit Group
  Smurfit Kappa Group
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• The Hastings Group
• Irish Intercontinental Bank
• National Gallery Of Ireland