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Leonie Connellan was born in Australia during the week that NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft made it’s closest approach to Jupiter. She has two BAs and an MFA in Printmaking from RMIT University in Melbourne, and makes art about science and storytelling. She moved to Dublin in 2017 with her husband and dog.

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Welcome – Conor Nolan At Lucky’s

Leonie Connellan Aug 9, 2018 0

If I have any kind of superpower, it’s being able to spot a printmaker at twenty paces, regardless as to whether there are any traditional prints on show or not. There’s a very specific way that printmakers make art that is obvious even if…

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Artonomy Exhibition | MART Gallery

Leonie Connellan Apr 4, 2018 0

I don’t normally review exhibitions before I see them, but one I’m really looking forward to this week is the ‘Artonomy’ exhibition and auction at MART Gallery in Rathmines, Dublin 6. The exhibition has been curated by Sophie Murphy…

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Exhibition | In Case of Emergency & Homo Ludens (Man At Play)

Leonie Connellan Jan 22, 2018 0

Our exhibition correspondent Leonie Connellan takes us through two Dublin exhibitions: In Case of Emergency at the Science Gallery and Homo Ludens (Man at Play) at the Library Project. It’s really quite something to walk into a room and be…

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Review | Dublin Gallery Weekend

Leonie Connellan Dec 5, 2017 0

This past weekend saw a slightly extended definition of the word, with the Dublin Gallery Weekend taking place from Thursday the 23rd to Sunday the 26th of November. Around 40 art galleries and studios banded together to produce a vast…