GALLERY EXHIBITION CALENDER
Regine Bartsch
31st October 2008 - 27th November 2008
Opening Friday 31st October 2008
The Mcbride Gallery is delighted to present new works in a solo exhibiton by artist Regine Bartsch.
This exhibition shall be the second solo exhibition the Mcbride Gallery has held of Regine Bartsch's work.
In 2006, Regine Bartsch presented work which varied from landscape, interiors and still-life work in her distinctly unique style, which could be described as a joyous and emotive observational expressionism.
The exhibition was a sell-out and the artist received a number of commissions as a result.
Bridget Flannery: New Works
3rd October 2008 - 30th October 2008
The Mcbride Gallery, Killarney presents well established Irish painter Bridget Flannery’s most recent new works in an exhibition, opening Friday October 3rd, 2008 at 7pm.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue of works, with a foreword by a well-known Irish art critic. Broadcaster Marian Kelly from Dublin City fm show ‘Parlour Review’ will officially open the exhibition (Marian coincidentally comes from Killarney, and is a close friend of the artist). Please Find Encl. Detailed CV and images of work, Catalogue will follow.
Biography & Exhibitions
Bridget Flannery was born in Cork in 1959. Since graduating from the Crawford College of Art & Design, with a Diploma in Fine Art Painting & Printmaking in 1981, Bridget Flannery has held over twenty solo exhibitions throughout Ireland and Europe, including: Pigyard Gallery, Wexford; Cross Gallery, Dublin; RHA Ashford Gallery, Dublin; Vangard Gallery, Cork. She has consistently showed in group and selected exhibitions, as well as receiving considerable critical attention, with reviews of exhibitions by leading Irish art critics such as Aidan Dunne and Mark Ewart.
Paintings
Flannery’s work is regarded as high art. Experts, critics and writers extol Flannery’s accomplished and mature style and creative expression. Needless to say, new works are highly anticipated by loyal collectors.
Flannery's paintings are made with mixed media such as oil and acrylic on wood. Formally, the work may be described as the composition of abstracted, not objective, geometric and atmospheric, distilled forms. The work is informed by the artist’s creative conscious and subconscious processes - spiritual influences central to the balance of the work.
Critic’s Response
The silent elegance which Flannery’s works embody, have attracted much poetic descriptions. In this piece, Irish Times Art Critic Aidan Dunne, has written a holistic, spiritual response to Flannery’s work:
“Landscape, the sea, currents of feeling, the flavour and structure of poetry and music inform her painting. There is a lavishing, a generosity, an urge to put in everything that is interesting, valuable, cherished and perhaps everything ominous and anxious as well.
The painting is the space which can accommodate all of it, positive and negative. The urge to include is tempered by the need to exclude. The list of what must be left out grows as the painting develops. Only the eventual conclusions are there in the finished image, the duration and fallibility of the process are evident in the residual traces of making. These are not incidental, but integral to the finished work, embodying its history and conceptual density.” Aidan Dunne
Further Information
Please Contact Joanne McCarthy, Gallery Manager
Eileen Healy / Mezzanine Exhibition
3rd October 2008 - 30th October 2008
Works by Eileen Healy will be exhibited in the Mezzanine of the Mcbride Gallery, Killarney, to coincide with the exhibition of new works by abstract artist Bridget Flannery.
Biography
Eileen Healy was born in Youghal and completed her studies at the Crawford College of Art in 1988, when she won the prize of student of the year award. The following year she was artist in residence at the Lavit Gallery in Cork and then became a studio member of the Cork Artists Collective for 5 years.
Artist’s Practice
A naturally talented figurative artist across many media including oil, pastel and pencil, Eileen mainly works from a life model in her studio at the Backwater artists’ Studio. She believes that this highly disciplined practice keeps her work fresh, alive and vibrant. In the studio, she is intrigues by the effects of light and shadow on the body and face, both with nudes and portraits.
Exhibitions & Commissions
Eileen has shown both in solo and group shows including the Arnotts portrait award exhibition, the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, RHA, Dublin and the Vangard Gallery, Cork. She has received many commissions including a portrait of Cork playwright and novelist Cónal Creedon for the Crawford Gallery series of portraits of Irish writers by Irish artists. The image can be seen on the cover of his most recent publication, 2nd City Trilogy. Her work has been collected by institutions such as University College, Cork; OPW; AIB and Roches Stores.
Residencies, Promotion of the Arts, Memberships & Teaching
She has taken part in many residencies including Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Burren Art College, Cill Riallig and Nantes in Brittany. On these residencies she has expanded her work into landscape in graphite, pastel and oil. Eileen has been a member of the Backwater Artists Group in Cork for over 7 years. She also teaches life drawing adult education classes at the Crawford College of Art.
Websites
www.eileenhealy.net
www.backwaterartists.ie/eileenhealy.html
Further Information
Please Contact Joanne McCarthy, Gallery Manager
Summer Exhibition 2008 (June - September)
27th June 2008 - 30th September 2008
Welcome to the Mcbride Gallery Summer Exhibitions Page.
The Mcbride Gallery exhibits Contemporary Irish Visual Art.
Next Summer 2008 Event
Saturday 16th August:
Group Exhibition & New Works by Finola Cooney
Reception All Day, 10am – 6pm
NEW WORKS BY FINOLA COONEY
In August, the Mcbride Gallery will present approximately 6-8 new works from painter Finola Cooney. Finola Cooney is essentially an abstract artist for whom landscape is essentially a starting point, or trigger for the creative process which follows as she develops colours, form and, notably, textures on paper and canvas. Her work derives partly from a deep impression left by landscape forms, textures and patterns, and the emotions evoked by them, the magical, almost subconscious impact of the half-obscured traces of the past which are left by people who are gone - just as "a spider dies and is gone but leaves its trace in the form of a broken web". Finola holds a BA (hons) in Modern languages in Literature, and has been painting since moving to the Beara Peninsula in 1991.
Artists Exhibiting throughout Summer 2008:
ANGIE SHANAHAN, BERNADETTE COTTER
BRIGHID MCLOUGHLIN, DEBBIE GODSELL
SHANE JOHNSON, SUSAN MONTGOMERY
TREVOR GEOGHEGAN, ZITA REIHILL
SYRA LARKIN, JOAN E MALLON
CARA THORPE, VICTOR RICHARDSON
RITA WOBBE, SIOBHAN COX CARLOS
TADHG MCSWEENEY, TIM BOOTH
ELIZABETH COMERFORD, GAVIN HOGG
GEAROID O’SHEA, JENNY RICHARDSON
JOHN PHILLIP MURRAY, SARAH WALKER
MARGARET O’SULLIVAN, CORA O’BRIEN
CON KELLEHER, LORRAINE WALL
MARY BREACH, JOHN BEHAN HRHA
FINOLA COONEY
AKIN - Artists' Collective Exhibition
23rd May 2008 - 25th June 2008
AKIN
Jay Murphy
Dolores Lyne
Margaret Irwin
Leonie King
Akin is a group of artists, combining printmakers Leonie King and Margaret Irwin, and painters Jay Murphy and Dolores Lyne. All artists work individually in the West of Ireland and have their own distinctive styles, experience and discipline. All are involved in various art projects, solo exhibitions and group exhibitions, locally, nationally and internationally.
Their works are in many private and public collections.
Tadhg McSweeney
18th April 2008 - 21st May 2008
This will be McSweeney's first solo exhibition with the Mcbride Gallery, Killarney.
Opening Friday 18 April 2008
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With thanks to Udaras Na Gaeltachta & Brian Lynch, writer, Liadain O'Donovan, Gallerist
Tadhg McSweeney is an enigmatic seventy-something artist who has produced a significant oeuvre, yet to be discovered by the art world at large.
Educated briefly at NCAD Kildare St., Dublin 1959-60, McSweeney has exhibited in several one person and group exhibitions from 1965 onward. These include: RHA, Oireactas, Group 65 and Independent Artists. Portrait commissions during this period included Michele Hand, Dr. Philbin, Bishop of Down & Connor, Vanessa Clarke, Walter Smithwick, Dr. Frances Diffley, and others. He has lived and worked in Italy, San Francisco, London and West Cork, having studied and painted fresco as well as working in oils, watercolours and woodcuts. McSweeney has exhibited in Hamburg, Dublin, Wexford Opera Festival, Eigse Carlow and Claremorris Open Exhibition, Vanguard Gallery, Macroom and in the Mcbride Gallery, Killarney. Between 86 and 90 McSweeney featured in Bob Quinn's film "Pobal", for RTE, and in Vivienne Dick’s film "London Suite" for Channel 4. He also worked a in theatre project in Paris, Didjon and Lyon with Evelyne Didi.
Charles Harper Selects
14th March 2008 - 15th April 2008
Opening Friday 14th March 2008
Charles Harper Selects
Charles Harper RHA, Aosdana
John Shinnors, Aosdana
Jack Donovan
Donald Teskey RHA, Aosdana
Jim Savage
Sarah O’Flaherty
Martin Finnin
Gavin Hogg
Tom Fitzgerald
Mike Fitzharris
Coilin Murray
This selected group show may well be titled the ‘Limerick’ artists show, as all of the artists were either born, have lived or live in Limerick city and county. A common thread they each share would be the Limerick School of Art & Design, where Harper has headed the department of Fine Art.
Each artist is incredibly well collected and represented on the contemporary Irish art scene.
GALLERY ARTISTS
1st January 2008 - 31st December 2008
Group Exhibition featuring artists regularly showing at the Mcbride Gallery, including...
Please contact gallery for further information.
Tim Goulding & Helen Comerford
9th November 2007 - 6th December 2007
Joint Show
Tim Goulding
Helen Comerford
Artists Tim Goulding and Helen Comerford have been specifically selected to exhibit together. The processes and materials used in both artists work (e.g. encaustic wax, acrylic paint, abstraction of the visual field) promote a materiality and expression which has been carefully and personally developed by each artist. The works exist in a semi-conceptual while material space.
Both artists are established, and very well regarded. Their work features in many solo and group exhibitions, and private & public collections. Please see attached biographies file.
Helen Comerford takes her inspiration from themes such as the “The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz”, one of three manifestos connected with the Rosicrucian Brotherhood, written in the year 1459. This journey takes the form of a "spiritual diary" covering seven days, a journey of initiation and transformation, a true alchemical process that contains many layers of meaning as might be expected in such a document. This work for exhibit in November is an attempt at expressing the spirit of each of the seven days, starting with the first day, Saturday. This series is the fourth in this ongoing investigation. It also links in to Comerford’s Planetary series, another subject matter that she has been working on for some time. www.helencomerford.com
Tim Goulding interprets his experiences and sights on past journeys abroad, distilling his visual and perceptual memory into works such as “Field Trip” series, shown above. Tim Goulding’s recent works mark a dramatic new departure. Tim has journeyed extensively over the past few years and this can be seen with the vivid colours, the quality of light, and the experience of heat, the textures of old Buildings and walls and contact with other cultures, have had a profound impact upon Tim’s work. His work is more resolutely abstract, composed of bold, interlocking shapes; squares, oblongs and gentle curves, and a striking use of colour; soft grey-greens, greys and earthy tones combined with vivid eclectic blues, oranges reds and rust colours. (Text Courtesy of Julian Campbell) www.timgoulding.com
Exhibition continues thru Tuesday 4th December
Followed by Gallery Lecture “Artists Inspired by Christmas” for Christmas in Killarney Festival, & Christmas Group Exhibition of work by gallery artists, Opening on Friday 7th December 2007, Reception at 7pm
For further information & images:
Joanne McCarthy, Gallery Manager, Mcbride Gallery
25 New St., Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0) 64 71483 Fax: +353 (0) 64 71669
www.mcbrideartgallery.com info@mcbrideartgallery.com
Mon-Sat 10-6
Rose Stapleton : Angie Shanahan : Elizabeth Comerford : Cara Thorpe : Sahoko Blake
5th October 2007 - 8th November 2007
THE MCBRIDE GALLERY PRESENTS NEW WORKS FROM FIVE OF IRELAND'S FOREMOST ARTISTS
Rose Stapleton
Elizabeth Comerford
Cara Thorpe
Sahoko Blake
Angie Shanahan
An eclectic collection from five profile female Irish artists who each contribute a diverse background and practice to the discipline of painting will be exhibited at the Mcbride Gallery, Killarney during the month of October 2007. The exhibition opens on Friday 5th October, with a Reception at 7pm where all five artists will be present. This is the first time these artists have shown together in such an exhibition in Co. Kerry, and indeed, outside of Dublin.
Cara Thorpe recently won the coveted 2007 Golden Fleece Award. In 2004 she was Artist in Residence at Cill Rialaig Retreat, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry and at the College of Art, Cyprus in 1999. Thorpe is well known for her challenging content and strict technical ability.
Sahoko Blake, originally from Tokyo, has exhibited extensively in Ireland since 1996. Her interpretation of the Irish landscapes has won her great acclaim in Ireland and at her many exhibitions abroad.
Elizabeth Comerford, a graduate of NCAD, has exhibited at six of the last seven Royal Hibernian Academy annual shows. Comerford’s media ranges from oil bar, oil pastel, chalk pastel to oil paint.
Angie Shanahan is a graduate of the Crawford College of Art & Design. Her practice involves work based on buildings and land which may exist in a transitory space, between dereliction and demolition.
Already there has been much interest shown in the collection of Rose Stapleton, whose works based on Gentlemans’ detached collars are unique.
This Group Exhibition from some of Ireland’s leading contemporary female artists is just one of a number of exhibitions which will introduce art collectors and enthusiasts to a wide range of leading contemporary Irish Artists (some of whom have not shown previously in the Kerry/Munster region).
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SEE [ARTISTS] PAGE ON WEBSITE FOR INDIVIDUAL BIOGRAPHIES, WORKS AND CVS
Mick O'Dea RHA :: Solo Exhibition
7th September 2007 - 4th October 2007
Solo Exhibition of Works by acclaimed Irish artist Mick O'Dea, RHA.
Opening Friday 7th September 2007
The exhibition promises to deliver a great standard of draughtmanship and oil painting. Mick O'Dea's work for the Mcbride Gallery shall consist of a striking tableau of academic nudes, in mixed media [oil pastel / pencil / charcoal ] and landscapes, a series of plein-air oil paintings worked on in Conties Kerry, Cork and Clare.
O'Deas practise is firmly rooted in a discipline of observation.
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.
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.