LEE WELCH (IRL/USA) completed an MFA at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and gained his BFA from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. He has received support from the Arts Council, Culture Ireland and Dublin City Council. He is currently in the International Residential Studio at the Red Stables, Dublin and recently awarded the Firestation Artists Studios' Sculpture Workshop Residency Award & Bursary.
He has recently received a Bursary from the Arts Council (2012), the Banff Residency at The Banff Centre, Canada (2010) and his work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, most recently Screening Room: Dublin - Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Amikejo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spain; (WHOOPEE) we're all going to die, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland; The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II, Telephone Booth, Rotterdam; WordPerfect, NoPlace, Oslo, Norway; Love Letter To a Surrogate Stage II, Muhka, Antwerp, Belgium (2011); Clifford Irving Show, Objectif Exhibitions curated by Raimundas Malasauskas, Antwerp, Belgium; A Whole New Ball Game, Banff Centre (2010); Non-knowledge, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2008); Claremorris curated by Lizzie Carey-Thomas (2008).
Welch lives and works in Dublin, Ireland & Rotterdam, Netherlands.
And now a tune that never loses favor,
Hold on, will you please, I'll be right back in a minute.
Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music to bring you a special bulletin
green– Something is not explicitly stated but it is implied in your tone. 
red– You're definitely an individual type. Well I mean you don't seem to succumb to the atmosphere. It's an important message. Crucial, really.
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it.
But then you're trapped. 