Leonie King has been a lecturer in printmaking and an organiser of print exhibitions in Galway such as ‘Western Artists’ and ‘Akin’. She was a founder of Impressions Print Triennial. Her work is in many private and public collections.
Since college Leonie King has travelled extensively. She has spent time in South America, India and Morocco. Foreign images and colours are brought home and blended with those of the Irish landscape: its patterns and textures and mists.
An awareness of the past transparently overlaid on the present is part of the underlying notion of her work and pertains to the sense of eternity, stretching both backwards and forwards. Her work is an endless balancing of dynamics, of coloured texture over variant coloured texture.
Her inspiration comes from an interacting of the emotional with reflections of the surrounding area, both present and past. The effervescent colour changes of the sea and land transpose themselves into multi-layered prints that are responses to a communing with soil, rock, and that which ekes out an existence on it, and underneath the surface of the earth.
Education
London College of Printing 1972-1975
Central School of Art and Design 1975-1976
Solo Exhibitions
2005
Norman Villa Gallery, Galway
Custom House Gallery, Westport
1993
Grainstore Gallery, Galway
1992
Hard Rock Gallery, Clare
Exhibitions participated
2017
Impressions Print show, Galway
Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2016
Impressions Book show, Galway
Russell Gallery, Ballyvaughn
Hamilton Gallery, Sligo Yeats
2015
Royal Academy Summer Show, London
Thirsk Gallery, Yorkshire
Impressions Biennale, Galway
2014
Galway Arts Festival Gallery, Galway
Le Penitant Blanch, Ville de Vence
2013
Akin Committee de Regions, Brussels
2012
Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin
The Sea The sea Kenny’s Gallery, Galway
2011
A word in your eye, Kenny’s Gallery, Galway
2010
Arus Eanna ten year group show, Inisherr, Aran
2008
Inishbofin Arts Festival, Bofin
Cliften Arts Festival, Cliften
2007
Royal Academy Summer Show, London
Akin Norman villa Galery, Galway
Cliften Arts Festival, Cliften
Oliver St John Gogarty, Renvyle House
2006
Donne International, Italy
Bride Gallery, Killarney
The Limerick Print show, Limerick
Project 06, Galway
2005
Royal Academy Summer show, London
Lorient Festival gallerie Faouedic, Lorient
Realm, 3 person show Cliften arts festival, Cliften
2004
Cliften Arts Festival, Cliften
Impressions print show, Galway arts festival
2003
Inishbofin Arts Festival, Bofin
Akin Galway Arts Festival, Galway
Impressions Print show, Galway
Akin travelling, Killmallock, Dungarven, Tallaght, Siris, Listowel, Garter Lane, Armagh, Baillieborough
2002
Impressions Print Biennale, Galway
2000
Limerick Small Print Winner, Limerick
Small Print, Spain
Cliften Arts Centre, Cliften
Human rights centre, Galway
University of Seattle, Washington state
Pacific University Seattle, Washington State Convention Trade Centre
The Victoria Port Townsend, Seattle Residency
1999
Royal Academy Summer Show, London
Iontas, Claremorris
Akin, Spiddal library
Cliften Arts Festival, Cliften
1997
Rome American University, Rome
Cliften Arts Festival, Cliften
Claremorris
Irish Club, London
Galway Arts Festival, Galway
1996
The Water is Wide Festival Interceltique de Lorient
1995
Iontas, Claremorris
Monaghan open Akin Galway
Arts Festival Lorient
Impressions Print Exhibition
1994
Atlantic Art Encounter, France
Iontas, Sligo
Images, Galway Arts Festival
1993
Mullaghmore show, Ballyvaughan
Galway printmakers
Arts centre, Mullingar
Carol Gallery, Longford
Moore Gallery, Athlone
Western Renmains Arts festival, Galway
1993
Irish centre, London
Private Collections
New York, Toronto, Paris, Nice, London, Ireland
Public Collections
London University Library,
Gower Street Bank Of Ireland
National University Ireland, Galway
Galway County Council