Biography
Born in Cork, Brian Lalor is a printmaker and writer. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in many public and private collections. He works principally in etching, woodcut and mezzotint, largely in black and white, and has used his prints to accompany both his own and other’s texts, most notably in a series of woodcuts for Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’. He has had 22 solo exhibitions internationally and he was chairman of Graphic Studio Dublin from 2005 until 2008. He is represented by Graphic Studio Gallery. Lalor is a member of the executive committee of the National Library of Ireland Society.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 Voussoir, Brian Lalor Retrospective, Graphic Studio, Dublin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 The Mythical and the Mundane, Cork
2012 Out of the Blue, Morley Gallery, London
2010 Isle d’Hiver/Winter Island, National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
2010 Royal Hibernian Academy Summer Show