Lelia Henry is an Irish award winning landscape artist based in Co. Westmeath. She recently obtained an MA in Art and Process from Crawford College of Art, Cork.
Drawing forms the core of my practice, and I work mainly in charcoal and graphite. My work explores the neglected and overlooked elements of the rural landscape. Through my drawings, I examine the relationship between these neglected spaces, and the enduring impact of human activity.
Devoid of figures, the implied presence of man is often of central importance. My concern for the loss of the natural world drives me to create meticulously rendered drawings, through which I ask the viewer to examine our connection to the ordinary everyday aspects of our immediate environment.
At a time when scientists are calling on artists to take up the mantle for climate change, my drawings offer the viewer a quiet space for reflection in which to consider our relationship to our world around us.
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Time and Tide. Seamus Ennis Arts Centre, Co. Dublin
2019
Beyond the Sea. ARDS Arts Centre, Newtownards, Co. Down
2017
Coast. Signal Art Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow
Group Shows
2020
Dublin Painting and Sketching Club Annual Exhibition. Dublin
Contemporary Irish Arts Centre LA (CIACLA) Online Exhibition
2019
RHA Annual Exhibition. Co. Dublin.
PUSH. MA Art and Process Exhibition. Gallery 46, Co. Cork
Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition. Mall Galleries, London
Dublin Painting and Sketching Club Annual Exhibition
Lavit Gallery Annual Member’s Exhibition. Lavit Gallery. Co. Cork
2018
Dublin Painting and Sketching Club’s Annual Exhibition. Invited Artist
CHQ Building, Co. Dublin
Rún. Invited Artist. Hyde Bridge Gallery, Co. Sligo
2017
National Open Art Winners Exhibition. Pallant House Gallery. Chichester, and Oxo Tower Wharf. London.
Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition. Belfast.
RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
Elsewhere, Luan Gallery, Athlone.
Easter Open Art Exhibition, Glebe House Gallery, Letterkenny. Donegal.
Dublin Painting and Sketching Club Annual Exhibition.
2017
RHA Annual Exhibition. Dublin.
Dublin Painting and Sketching Club Annual Exhibition. Dublin.
Cairde Visual, Hyde Bridge Gallery Sligo.
Ranelagh Arts Centre Winter Exhibition. Dublin.
Rua Red Winter Open Exhibition. Dublin.
Escape. Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise.
Three Perspectives, Abbey Road Artists Studios, Athlone.
2015
RHA Annual Exhibition. Dublin.
Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Belfast.
Yeats. Poetry and Place. Hyde Bridge Gallery. Sligo.
Dunamaise Open Submission, Portlaoise.
Cairde Visual, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo.
Awards / Bursaries:
2020
Arts Council Professional Development Bursary.
2019
Westmeath County Council Artist Bursary.
2018
Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award.
Westmeath County Council Artist Bursary.
2017
Irish Artist of the Year. National Open Art Competition. London.
Arts Council Travel and Training Bursary.
Westmeath County Council Artist Bursary.
2016
Westmeath County Council awarded Tyrone Guthrie Residency.
2015
Westmeath County Council Artist Bursary.
Residencies
Roadbooks Residency, Cork. (Awarded by Crawford College of Art)
Heinrich Boll Cottage, Achill Island. Co. Mayo.
Tyrone Guthrone Centre, Annamakerrig, Co. Monaghan.
Cill Rialaig, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry
Artist in Residence, Abbey Road Studios, Athlone.
Education
2019
MA Art and Process. Crawford College of Art. Cork.
2010
Florence Academy of Art.
2008
Certificate in Drawing and Visual Investigation. NCAD.
Also, numerous public and private Collections and Commissions, including OPW.