Lorraine COOKE
Merit Prize 2006

work shown :
Little Bo-Peep (2005), lithograph, 37 x 70 cm
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Lorraine Cooke is based in Cork. Ever since she can remember, she has loved to draw. She has developed this skill through printmaking, working within the mediums of drypoint and lithography. She likes to draw from her model directly onto the plate : "Drawing for me is all about making marks and taking risks. The placing of the first mark is always full of apprehension. The joy is in the relationship of one line and the next, the hesitant alongside the deliberate".

Funding would enable her to purchase large lithographic plates and high quality handmade printing paper, and to employ a model regularly. Above all it would give her much needed time to develop her skills further.