DOLORES DE SADE
Original limited edition etchings.
BIOGRAPHY
Dolores de Sade’s work is concerned with knowledge, memory, nostalgia and narrative. Looking at possible portrayals of an event, place or object, her work explores the temporal nature of such states of being.
Taking established paradigms as a starting point de Sade attempts to find understanding using text and images found on internet searches, conversations with friends and strangers, from literature and newspapers, film and television.
Influenced by eighteenth and nineteenth century book and periodical illustration, these works demonstrate an interest in the ways that information is given the authority of knowledge and how knowledge is transposed through memory, nostalgia and archetype. De Sade explores parallels between the challenges brought about by the sudden plethora of images and information that new printing techniques and the early beginnings of mass media in the eighteenth and nineteenth century brought about, and those of our own digital age.
Her work spans a range of media, including etching and engraving, painting, writing, sound, performance and film. It is held in private and public collections including V&A, Government Art Collection, British Library, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal College of Art, Sir John Cass School of Art, Ministry of Culture, Thailand and Guangdong Museum, China.
AWARDS:
Intaglio Printmakers Award, ELP London, 2013
Royal Etcher Award, Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, London 2011
Birgit Skiöld Memorial Trust Award, London 2011
British Institution Award, Royal Academy, London 2011
J K Burt Award, Originals, London 2010
Ede and Ravenscroft Award, London 2010
Guangdong Museum Purchase prize, Qijiang, 2010
St Cuthbert’s Mill Award, Printmakers Council, London, 2008
American History Bursary, University of York, 2000
Dolores de Sade’s work is concerned with knowledge, memory, nostalgia and narrative. Looking at possible portrayals of an event, place or object, her work explores the temporal nature of such states of being.
Taking established paradigms as a starting point de Sade attempts to find understanding using text and images found on internet searches, conversations with friends and strangers, from literature and newspapers, film and television.
Influenced by eighteenth and nineteenth century book and periodical illustration, these works demonstrate an interest in the ways that information is given the authority of knowledge and how knowledge is transposed through memory, nostalgia and archetype. De Sade explores parallels between the challenges brought about by the sudden plethora of images and information that new printing techniques and the early beginnings of mass media in the eighteenth and nineteenth century brought about, and those of our own digital age.
Her work spans a range of media, including etching and engraving, painting, writing, sound, performance and film. It is held in private and public collections including V&A, Government Art Collection, British Library, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal College of Art, Sir John Cass School of Art, Ministry of Culture, Thailand and Guangdong Museum, China.
AWARDS:
Intaglio Printmakers Award, ELP London, 2013
Royal Etcher Award, Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, London 2011
Birgit Skiöld Memorial Trust Award, London 2011
British Institution Award, Royal Academy, London 2011
J K Burt Award, Originals, London 2010
Ede and Ravenscroft Award, London 2010
Guangdong Museum Purchase prize, Qijiang, 2010
St Cuthbert’s Mill Award, Printmakers Council, London, 2008
American History Bursary, University of York, 2000