Angie Shanahan
Angie Shanahan has exhibited at the Mcbride Gallery through 2007 and 2008. Her work is also available by request & commission.
Angie Shanahan is a graduate of the Crawford College of Art & Design where she studied painting.
Shortly after graduating she won the Taylor Bequest for Painting, also the Vision Award, selected by James White, former Director of the National Gallery of Ireland.
From 1985, after joining the newly formed Cork Artists Collective, she exhibited with them and in other selected group shows countrywide such as Artists with Promise, Solomon Gallery, An tOireachtas, Arnotts National Portrait Exhibition, the Royal Hibernian Academy annual show, Iontas, and so on.
At this time she also taught Art for the Adult Ed. Department in U.C.C. and worked on commissions. In 1992 she was Artist in Residence in the Lavit Gallery, Cork after which she had a joint show with stained glass artist, Mary Mackey. This was followed on by Angie's first solo show, culminating with three more solo shows by the end of the nineties. A Commission from Collins Bookshop and Publisher to paint 52 scenes of Cork and County for the Collins Diary 1997 & 1998 led to an exploration of the Cork region.
Subsequently, the Office of Public Work, Dublin, commissioned Angie to paint 12 more scenes of Cork City for their Head Office. Also at that time the O.P.W. were compiling a gallery of Taoisigh or Heads of Government for Dail Eireann and commissioned her to paint the pastel portrait of Michael Collins.
Her paintings hang in public and private collections in Ireland, the UK and America.
In October 2004 Angie exhibited in "Show CASE", at the Lavit Gallery and had a solo show titled "Slow Food" at the Fenton Gallery. She also featured in the C2 exhibition in the Crawford Gallery for the beginning of the City of Culture Celebrations in 2005. Featured in Spring edition of Irish Arts Review, 2005.
May/June 2005. Royal Hibernian Academy Exhibition, Dublin.
In May 2007, Shanahan presented a solo exhibition entitled ‘Memory Space’, whereby she exhibited paintings completed during her residency in the derelict military barracks in Ballincollig, Co. Cork, while the buildings and land existed in a transitory space – they were between dereliction and demolition. Shanahan shall present new works in October with the Mcbride Gallery in this manner – largely observational studies of buildings or landscapes which exist in that transitory space. Often, this form of representation shall be the only kind these kind of places have bestowed on them. While all art records information which may be useful in time, to history, for example, one gets the feeling that Shanahan understands her role as artist in these situations.
Shanahan continues to work on private commissions and be inspired by study travel trips abroad.
Contemporary
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Chilli Bouquet
Acrylic on Canvas 51x40.5 €2900.00 - For Sale » click image to enlarge |
In the Footsteps of MC Escher, Southern Italy I
Acrylic on Canvas 24x18cm €850.00 - For Sale » click image to enlarge |
In the Footsteps of MC Escher, Southern Italy II
Acrylic on Canvas 24x18cm €850.00 - For Sale » click image to enlarge |
Lunch Text
Acrylic on Canvas 46x50cm €3800.00 - For Sale » click image to enlarge |
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All images © Angie Shanahan and McBride Gallery