Brian McAvera points to some highlights from Brian Lalor’s forthcoming retrospective at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre
Brian Lalor, printmaker and illustrator, was born in Cork in 1941. He has exhibited prints, drawings and watercolours in Ireland and internationally. He worked first in architecture and then in archaeology, travelling widely. In 1973, he set up a print studio close to Ballydehob in West Cork. He moved to Dublin in 1989 and joined the Graphic Studio in 1991 (later becoming its chairman and writing its official history), before returning to the neighbourhood of Ballydehob. As well as producing prints, he has been an industrious author and illustrator, of volumes such as Dublin (1981), Dublin Bay (1989) and The Irish Round Tower (1999), written and illustrated by himself, and The Jerusalem Guide (1973), Cork (1977) and The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1997), illustrated by him but written by others.
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