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If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Digital, Drawing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking

I am...

I’m an artist (Painter) working from a studio in Henrietta street Dublin 1.
I attended Dunlaoghaire School of Art and was an early member of the Visual Arts Centre Dublin, one of the first co-operative studios in Dublin.
Over the years I’ve exhibited in many group exhibitions: Oireachtais /Independent artist /Boyle Arts festival /Wexford Artist Books exhibition /Ramus Artcore annual exhibition /Art of the State emerging art touring exhibition, catalogue.

I’ve also organised curated: Response: multimedia exhibition Irish Life centre 1995;
Flux: curated with Jackie Askew; Multimedia touring exhibition Kilkenny town hall; Droichead Arts Centre, co Louth; South Tipperary Arts centre Clonmel. 1997 - 1998.

1991 One person exhibitions. Droichead Arts centre, Drogheda co Louth.
1995 Altered States. The Guinness gallery, Foxrock co Dublin.
1998 Resonance with Jackie Askew. The Berkeley gallery, Thomastown co Kilkenny.

Exhibitions outside Ireland. 1997 Irish Scottish Art. Multimedia exhibition at various locations in the town of Burgwedel Hanover, Germany.
1996/1997 Claremorris open Claremorris /Hexham UK.
1998. Six Dubliner’s. Painting Photography Performance, as part of Greenwich and docklands international arts festival: Art in perpetuity trust gallery / studios London.

October/ November 2008.
Autumn Exhibition at Central Bank Dublin: Access to Arts Gallery Dublin.

Awards: Arts council materials/equipment award
Art Flight- Aer Lingus Arts Council travel award
Arts Council Studio rental assistance grants.

About my artwork

Statement 2008

“The gravity series” paintings I’ve been working on for the past three years in my studio in Dublins Henrietta street are vibrant colourful abstract works that are based around the concept of gravity.
They are mostly process driven and retain a truthfulness to materials paint on canvas, surface / support, non illusionists or representational, but explore the physicality and luminosity of the paint itself.
Colour although often does reference the natural world i.e.; blue equates with water / sky, the colour red to fire / blood etc and some of the paintings can seem to reference landscape or reflections in water viewed through a many layered surface
There is also a performative element in the making of the paintings and because it is usually oil paint being used which can take a long time to dry between layers of paint a history is embedded in the surfaces of the works.

Artists I like

Caravaggio-Goya-Picasso-Gerhard Richter-Robert Mapplethorp-Jenny Saville
Howard Hodgin-Barry Flanagan-Andy Warhol-Marc Quinn-Jean Micheal Basquiat.
Louise Bourgeois-Edward Kienholz-Michael Cullen-Thomas Demand
Francis Bacon-Sean Scully-Mathew Barney-Mark Francis + many more.

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Julian Opie, Walking on O'Connell street. Dublin City Gallery,The Hugh Lane.
Miquel Barcelo: The Africian Work.
Janaina Tschape: Chimera. IMMA Dublin.

The centre of the artworld is

New York, London, LA, Berlin, Beijing, my studio, online, nowhere and everywhere

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