British printmaker Steve Barraclough attended Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and the Slade School of Fine Arts. Inspired by a period spent in China in the early 1980s, Barraclough experimented with a range of materials and eastern printmaking techniques in his visual art practice. He served as Head of the Printmaking Department of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. His work is held in the collections of the Arts Council of Ireland and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.