Ian Burke is a painter and printmaker whose artwork is inspired by coastlines and wild interior landscapes. He graduated Goldsmith's College, London in 1984 with an M.A. in Fine Art, and since then has exhibited widely. He is also a dedicated teacher and has taught for many years alongside making his own work. He is currently Drawing Master at Eton College, Berkshire.
Much of his work is inspired by the very particular landscape around his house and studio in the Yorkshire Moors. His studio, an old pig shed, contains the large Columbian printing press he uses to make his prints. He draws inspiration from the surrounding river, waterfall, house and garden. His fascination with fishing and the sea can be seen in the dramatic depictions of crabs and fish in this current exhibition.
Born in Dublin in 1958, Eilis Crean graduated from NCAD in 1981, and earned her MFA in 2000 at Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA. She has exhibited at the RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin; The Visual, Carlow; Clifden Arts Festival, Galway; Dunamaise Art Center, Portlaoise; and Alliance Francaise, Dublin. In the USA at Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN; Redline Contemporary Art Center, Boulder, CO; Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tuscon AZ; Hambidge Center, GA; Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta; Kennesaw State University and Valdosta State University, GA; the Association of Visual Artists, Chattanooga, Tennessee; Mazur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA; and Cesis International, Latvia. Her has work been published in International Painting 1 – Manifest Research Gallery, Ohio, IN; and the Studio Visit Magazine – Open Studios Press, Boston, MA. Crean’s work is held in the State collections of Ireland, France and Latvia, the collections of La Grange Art Museum, Georgia; King & Spalding, Atlanta; the Figgis collection, Ireland, and numerous private collections in Ireland and the United States.
She is Professor of Art at University of West Georgia, and divides her studio time between Georgia, USA and Ireland.
Diarmuid Delargy RUA was born in Belfast in 1958. He studied at the University of Ulster and the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where he graduated with an M.A. in 1983. He has lived and worked in the west of Ireland for many years.
As a painter, sculptor and print maker, Delargy has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. He has received numerous bursaries and awards for his work including the Gold Medal at the European Large Format Print Exhibition, Dublin (1991). His suite of 24 prints based on a text by Samuel Beckett was approved by the author and was exhibited widely including MOMA San Francisco, Las Vegas and New York.
Delargy was printmaker in residence at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 1988. He has had solo exhibitions at The Orchard Gallery, Derry; the Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast; and the Taylor Galleries, Dublin; as well as numerous group exhibitions.
Delargy was elected to Aosdána in 1999.
Liz Doyle is a painter and printmaker based in County Donegal. Texture and surface play a big part in Doyle’s work, where vivid colours and shapes form land masses, vessels and landscapes. Processes such as pouring and the taking of 'prints' by lifting areas of wet paint from one work and transferring it to another result in vibrant colours and rich surfaces. Doyle will be having her second solo exhibition at Green Fuse, July 11 and is also represented in the USA by Mark Borghi Fine Art.
60cm sq plus frame. Birch panel in tray frame. 2018
142x95cm on canvas
15cm sq on gessoboard
Born in Dublin in 1953, Pat Harris studied at NCAD and Higher Institute of Fine Art, Antwerp. His work is represented in a number of public collections, including: The Arts Council of Ireland, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin; The National Self-Portrait and Contemporary Art Collection, Limerick; University College Dublin and The University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Landscapes made in the polders of Tielrode, where he lives, or in the boglands of Mayo in the west of Ireland, all exude a certain quiet beauty. A stillness and Rothko like glow that is achieved by slowly building up thin often transparent layers of oil paint. Harris considers himself a translator; he translates the world around him into marks. And it is the marks he makes by both applying and removing the paint or, in his drawings, the charcoal, that remain to tell the story. A story of transience but also continuance, of fragile objects and places that obliquely persist, captured in the fragile surface of his marks.
Nick Miller was born in London but has been based in the west of Ireland since 1992. Miller pursues different genres and modes of working that allow direct engagements with his subjects, whether portrait, landscape or object.
Elected as a member of Aosdána in 1991 in recognition of his contribution to the arts in Ireland. In 2014 he was the recipient of the Hennessy Portrait Award at the National Gallery of Ireland. Miller has exhibited widely including solo shows at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; RHA, Dublin; New York Studio School, New York, USA; and Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France. His work is held in many private institutional and public collections including the National Gallery of Ireland; Irish Museum of Modern Art; Dublin City Gallery; The Arts Council of Ireland; the Niland Collection; and the European Investment Bank, Luxembourg.
Hughie O'Donoghue was born in Manchester in 1953 and now lives and works in Co. Mayo and London. His new exhibition of large scale, cinematic painted constructions and sculpture, One Hundred Years and Four Quarters will be shown at Galway International Arts Festival from 11-24 of July. Other recent solo museum exhibitions include Painting/Memory: Artist's Laboratory, Royal Academy, London, 2012; The Road, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic, 2011; The Journey, Leeds City Art Gallery, 2009; Lost Histories: Imagined Realities, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands; and Parables, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France, 2008.
His work is in public collections throughout the world including Art Gallery of South Australia; British Museum, London; Dallas Museum of Art, USA; the Hugh Lane, Dublin; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Michigan Museum of Art, USA; Ulster Museum, Belfast; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA.
He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from University College Cork, Ireland in 2005 and was elected to the Royal Academy, London in 2009 and Aosdána in 2013.
Paula Pohli is an Irish printmaker and graphic artist. She was born in Dublin and now lives in County Mayo, where she is surrounded by the raw, unpretentious beauty of the rural environments that inspire her work. She does not use a printing press and all her prints are produced by hand.
Barbara Rae CBE RA is a painter and printmaker. Although primarily based in Edinburgh, her extensive travels have generated works which show a deep interest in the history and aesthetics of landscape. Rae has said of her approach "I'm not interested in topographical detail. I need to be able to immerse myself in the culture of a place to create art."
Having worked at Ballinglen, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo for extended periods periods over the last fifteen years, the landscapes of Co. Mayo feature prominently in her work.
Barbara Rae is a member of the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy of Arts, London. She has also been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Napier University, Edinburgh; Aberdeen University; Royal College of Art, London; and University of St. Andrew's, Fife, Scotland.
Stevey Scullion is a sculptor born in Scotland but now living in London and Co. Mayo, Ireland. He originally trained as a ship's carpenter in Glasgow but later studied Printmaking at the Glasgow Print Studios before moving to London to study Sculpture at Chelsea School of Art. He has previously worked as a lecturer in Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art and Guildhall University.
Scullion has exhibited his work extensively, recently at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London; and at NOA, London where he was a prizewinner. His sculpture 'Journey' was commissioned by Iarnród Éireann and is installed at Kilkenny's MacDonagh Railway Station.
Donald Teskey was born in Co. Limerick and graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 1978. He came to prominence as an artist through his skill as a draughtsman during the 1980s with several significant solo exhibitions. Since 1992 he has crafted out a substantial body of work as a painter of the landscape focusing on the ruggedness of the western seaboard. Sometimes working on a very large scale, his images reflect his response to the formal elements of composition; shape, form and fall of light. The result are powerful images of instantly recognisable parts of the Irish landscape with large abstract passages and surfaces which articulate the relentless, energetic and elemental force of nature. He is the recipient of awards from EV+A, the Claremorris Open Exhibition, the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Ulster Academy. He was awarded a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Centre, USA in 2002.