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IRENE LEES – CONTEMPORARY ARTIST
Born on 11th February 1943, Irene Lees lives and works in The Lizard, Cornwall.
Education:
2005 BA Hons: Drawing and Applied Arts UWE
2002 Diploma Art and Design – Distinction Weston Super Mare
2007 – 2017 Society of Women Artists
Group Exhibitions:
2018 Trinity Buoy Drawing Prize, London and Tour
2018. Gallery Different, Muse, Model or Mistress, London
2018 Little Book Exhibition Sennan Cove Cornwall
2018 London Fine Art Fair
2017 Petronilla Silver, Tremenhere Gallery, Sculpture Park, Penzance
2017 Wills Lane Gallery, Cape Cornwall
2017 SWA 156th Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2016 Candida Stevens Fine Art, ICON
2016 Wills Lane Gallery, Cape Cornwall
2016 SWA 155th Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2016 TCAPS, Toowoomba, Australia
2015 SWA 154th Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2015 Tint Art, “Good Figures Exhibition” Mall Galleries, London.
2015 Gallery Different, London
2015 Candida Stevens Fine Art, Chichester and London
2015 Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall.
2014 SWA 153th Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2014 Wills Lane Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall
2013 Millennium Gallery, St. Ives. “Freedom from Torture”
2013 SWA 152th Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
2012: SWA 151thExhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
2012: Exchange/Newlyn Art Gallery, Picture Room. “Turner Prize Series”
2012 Wills Lane Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall.
2011: SWA 150th Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
2010: Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition.
2010: SWA 149th Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
2009: Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition.
2009: SWA 148thExhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
2009: Coutts Bank London, “Depth of Vision.”
2009 Full Circle, London.
2008: Holt Gallery, Norfolk. “SWA”
2008: Coutts Bank, London, “Depth of Vision”
2008: Wills Lane Gallery, St. Ives. “An Image of Place”
2008 Full Circle, London
2007: Jerwood Drawing Prize, London and tour.
2007: RWA Bristol, Jerwood Exhibition.
2007: SWA 146th Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
2006: Picture Craft Gallery, Norfolk, “SWA”
2006: Here Gallery, Bristol, “Twisted”
2006: SWA 145th Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2006: Cheltenham Art Prize – Pitville Gallery, Gloucester
“Fairtrade, Bishopston Trading Company”
2006: The Smithfield Gallery, London “Immeasurable Adoration”
2006: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London,
2006: London Art Fair – Drawing Gallery, “A Whalebone to See Through”
2006: Sherwell Centre, University of Plymouth, “Drawing About”
2005 Stroud House Gallery, “Fulcrum” Stroud
2005: Foyer Gallery UWE, Bristol, “Trap”
2005: Jerwood Drawing Prize, London and tour
2005: Art Gym Hengrove School Bristol “Draw – Second Site”
2004: Octagon Visual Arts Centre Bristol “First Few”
2004: Royal West of England Bristol “Fishing Trap”
2003: Iguana Gallery Stroud
2003: Foyer Gallery Draw, UWE
2003: Foyer Gallery Frame Academy,
REVIEWS AND AWARDS
2017 Unite Education Art Feature
2016 Unite Education Art Feature
2016 Western Daily Press, Art Feature
2009 Unison Calendar
2008 Unison Calendar
2008 – 2017 Who’s Who in Art
2011 New Zealand By Design – History of New Zealand, Art Feature
2008 Western Daily Press, Cornwall Today – Art Feature
2008 BBC Cornwall Art Review
2008 Unison Callender
2007 Cornwall Today Art Feature
2006 Sunday Herald, Glasgow, Art Feature
2006 University of West of England, Prospectus
2005 Bristol Evening Post, Art Feature
2016 Special Fine Art Award SWS London
2012: London Art Co. Drawing Award SWA
2013: Frank Herring and Son Easel Award (Drawing) SWA
2005: Cliff Moss Memorial Prize, UWE
2006: Martini Prize, Cheltenham Art Festival
Lady in Waiting (Marie Therese Walter)Researched hand written text in pen98 cm × 76 cm
“Goddesses and Doormats”.
These hand-written researched text drawings describe the lives and influences of just three women muses in Picasso’s life.
Marie Therese Walter, was the one constant in his life and was happy to remain hidden, prepared to ignore his infidelities and had no social aspirations.
The photographer Dora Maar was the inspiration for his acclaimed Weeping Woman Series on whom he used Pavlov’s philosophy to send sadistically confused signals of love and hate, even after they had parted.
Nusch Eluard, the independent, unconventional and highly erotic wife of the surrealist poet Paul Eluard, shared Picasso’s narcissistic personality.
All these women were fundamentally inspirational and yet appear unrecognisable.
