Mick O'Dea RHA
Works by Mick O'Dea RHA are available by request and by commission. Please enquire.
The Mcbride Gallery presented a solo show of work by Mick O'Dea in September 2007.
Biography:
Born in Ennis, County Clare in 1958, Mick O'Dea studied at the National College of Art and Design and the University of Massachusetts from 1976 to 1981 and more recently at Winchester School of Art in Barcelona and Winchester where he was awarded an M.A. in European Fine Art in 1997.
Teaching at the National College of Art and Design from 1981 until 1999 he has also taught at Dun Laoghaire School of Art, St. Edmondsbury in Lucan, Portlaoise Prison. The King's Hospital and the National Gallery of Ireland. He has been a visiting lecturer of Sligo School of Art, The Crawford School of Art, Cork, Dun Laoghaire School of Art, Manchester Polytechnic, Falmouth College of Art, Lyme Academy of Fine Art, Conn. U.S.A., The Education Units of
Portlaoise Prison, St. Patrick's Institution, Wheatfield Prison and Youthreach, Kilrush, County Clare.
O’Dea recently lectured on the subject of portraiture at IMMA, as part of their programme surrounding the British artist Lucien Freud’s exhibition.
He has won many awards, including four awards at the Arnotts National Portrait Awards Exhibitions In 1985,1989,1993 and 1994. He was awarded the K.M.P.G. award at thc Annual Oireachtas Exhibition in 1992 and 1998. Other awards include a major Arts Council Bursary in 1986, a prize at the Claremorris Open Exhibition in 1990, an Art Flight to New York in 1993, as well as the E.S.B. Keating McLoughlin Medal at the 1993 Annual R.H.A. Exhibition. He was elected an A.R.H.A. in that same year. He received the Taylor De Vere Award for a Work of
Distinction in any medium at the R.H.A. Annual Exhibition in 1995 and in 1996 he was elected an R.H.A. and a member of Aosdana.
He has exhibited widely in Ireland, Latvia, the U.K., U.S.A. and more recently in Spain. His work is included in a number of Public and Corporate Collections including The Arts Council of Ireland, The Royal Hibernian Academy, The National Gallery of Ireland, The Bank of Ireland, Allied Irish Bank, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Limerick, The National Self-Portrait Collection, The National Drawing Collection, Limerick City Gallery, Clare County Council. G.P.A. Shannon, The Ol1ice of Public Works, The Cesis Museum of Art, Latvia, Jurys Hotel Group, St. Patrick's Hospital, the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, St. Luke's Hospital, Donegal County Council, Electricity Supply Board, Dept of An Taoiseach, Government Buildings and Fingal Co. Council.
All images © Mick O'Dea RHA and McBride Gallery