Biography
Lipstein graduated from the Fine Art print faculty of The National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2006. Upon graduating he received the CAP Foundation award that allowed him to produce an exhibition of large scale paintings the following year. In 2009 he received an MA in Fine Art also at NCAD and rejoined the Graphic Studio Dublin where he had first been a member in 2002.
Born in Tel Aviv he moved to Dublin in 1983. He lives and works in rural county Kildare. By recording his dreams in writing since 1979 he developed a certain understanding of mythology, symbolism and mainly the way emotional projection appears visually through dream work. Since the late nineties, after a career in natural medicine, he was fully committed to printmaking and painting, using mythical-visual narrative and atmospheric data from his dreams as source material for his visual compositions. Lipstein’s work is included in numerous public and private collections across Ireland, Europe, the USA, Israel and Australia.
Selected Exhibitions
2015 ‘Compassion, Meditation at Fishtree’, solo exhibition of etchings, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2015 Royal Ulster Academy, 134th annual exhibition, Belfast
2015 Winter Exhibition, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2015 Summer exhibition at SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2015 Gerard Manley Hopkins festival of poetry and visual art, New Bridge, Kildare
2015 Summer exhibition, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2015 Impressions 15, Biennial printmaking exhibition at the Centre for Creative Art and Media, Galway
2015 Royal Hibernian Academy, 185th annual exhibition, Dublin.
2014 Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival, Newbridge, Kildare.
2014 Summer exhibition, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin.
2014 Summer exhibition, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin.
2014 Summer exhibition, Graphic Studio Dublin Gallery.
2014 Claremorris Gallery, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, paintings.
2014 Royal Hibernian Academy, Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
2013 Winter exhibition, SO Fine Art Editions Gallery Dublin.
2013 Winter exhibition, Gallery of The Graphic Studio Dublin.
2013 A Natural Selection, Graphic Studio Gallery Exhibition, Botanical Gardens, Dublin
2013 ‘Strumpet City,’ Summer exhibition, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2013 Interim group exhibition at the Gallery of Graphic Studio Dublin
2013, 2010 The Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2012 Dreamcompositions Solo exhibition of etchings and lithographs, Portarlington Library
2011, 2009 Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Belfast
2011 Down By the River group exhibition at the Focus Theatre, Dublin
2010 Impressions, multidisciplinary printmaking biennial exhibition, Galway Art Centre (first prize)
2010 Fiction, two persons exhibition with Leila Pedersen, The Back Loft gallery, Dublin
2009 Christmas Exhibition, Thisisnotashop Gallery, Dublin
2009 Operation Art – a Collaborative Exhibition, NCAD
, Dublin
2009 Retrospective Solo Exhibition of paintings and prints, Limerick
2009 Dream Compositions, the Spirit of the Ocean – paintings and prints, Dublin
2009 Paintings and Prints at the Gerald Manley Hopkins Poetry and Visual Art Festival
2006-2008 Biennial Print Exhibitions at Galway Art Centre