UPCOMING EXHIBITION: Afterglow - Karen Lee

UPCOMING EXHIBITION: Afterglow - Karen Lee

About the exhibition

AFTERGLOW 

Afterglow explores the way places remain with us long after we have left them. 

Rather than depicting recognisable landscapes, Karen Lee draws on the fragments that memory chooses to keep — a colour, a horizon, a quality of light, a fleeting sense of place. Details disappear, colours shift and certain moments become heightened while others soften with time. 

Through layers of colour, texture and gestural marks, the works occupy the space between remembering and forgetting. Flashes of neon emerge through quieter, muted tones like moments of recollection breaking through. While rooted in Karen’s own memories, the landscapes are deliberately ambiguous, inviting the viewer to find something of their own within them — somewhere once known, half remembered, but still glowing. 

BIO 

Karen Lee is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist whose textured paintings explore place, memory and the meeting of urban and natural landscapes. Her work has been shown at Smock Alley Theatre, Hambly & Hambly and the London Irish Centre, where she held her first international solo exhibition, Twixt Land & Longing, in 2025. 

Before focusing on visual art, Karen worked in theatre and film production, including roles with the Gaiety School of Acting and Bodecci Film. She is a recipient of the Creative Arts Residency at the Tara Building, and her commissions include work for Dublin Bus, Insomnia Coffee Company and private collectors worldwide. 

Karen was recently commissioned to create artwork for 98 guest rooms at The July Dublin on Capel Street. She will take part in ArtSource at the RDS this November, followed by a solo exhibition at the dlr Mill Theatre, Dundrum, opening on 2 December 2026. 

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