Amelia Stein
Artist in Residence: Amelia Stein 26th - 29th March
Photographer Amelia Stein, RHA, lives and works in Dublin where she was born in 1958.
Over the past 30 years Amelia Stein has established herself as a singularly exacting photographer whose work is characterized by meticulous attention to detail in tandem with the attributes of fine black and white photographic printing, many of the images having a theatrical presence.
Her area of expertise has been portraiture, working with actors, performers, playwrights, poets, authors and musicians on commissioned images, production photography in Irish theatre, opera and the music industry. Her most recent body of work is of the Zen Dry gardens of Kyoto and other Temple Gardens in Kyoto.
In 2006, she was elected a member of Aosdana, the first photographer ever to be elected to that body. She is a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. Her work is in numerous private and public collections including the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Office of Public Works Ireland, The National Gallery of Ireland, the Arts Council of Ireland, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Limerick City Gallery of Art.
