Jonathan Swift Gallery

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	<title>Jonathan Swift Gallery</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>JUDY HAMILTON</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:25:42 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Jonathan Swift Gallery</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Judy Hamilton]]></category>

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		<description>JUDY HAMILTON


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Judy Hamilton was born in Dublin in 1954 and studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin as well as at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology. 

Hamilton creates landscapes that are predominantly in a muted colour pallet, with flashes of vivid colour.  Her work is boldly gestural, and at times atmospherically charged, we are aware of the elements surrounding her perspective even though they're presented in an almost abstract way.   The work has an immediacy and freshness that evoke a physical engagement with place.  Hamilton paints rural places, basing her pictures not on such qualities as exceptional natural beauty in a conventional sense but on the vividness of being there. A keen sailer she has created many series of work based on the sea.  The natural beauty she describes is low-key enhanced by her pictorial instincts, she is not afraid to take chances.

Her paintings are in the collections of the Dun Laoghaire and Rathdown County Council, City Bank, Dublin; City Bank, London; Hewlett Packard; IBEC; the Blackrock Education Centre; the Office of Public Works and A.I.B. Bank



Purchase / Viewing Enquiries: Contact Peter Brennan 
Mobile: +353 (86) 8035771
Phone: +353 (1) 4164612
peter@jonathanswiftgallery.com 

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		<excerpt>JUDY HAMILTON      Judy Hamilton was born in Dublin in 1954 and studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin as well as at the Dun Laoghaire...</excerpt>

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		<title>BARTOSZ KOLATA</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:38:12 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>BARTOSZ KOLATA


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Bartosz Kolata was born in 1979 in Torun, Poland. In 2006 he graduated Art Conservation and Restoration at Nicolaus Copernicus University UMK with Master of Art Degree. Since 2005 he has lived and worked in Dublin.

His work is concerned with bringing to our attention that which we so often ignore, the fact that 'life is full of physical and sexual violance, war and death.  My paintings are telling stories about people left alone in the cruel realities.  I am not indifferent to what is going on around me.  There is such an onslaught of scenes blurring the line between reality and unreality that our sensitivity has been weakened.  I hope my paintings are able to restore people's sensibility, which is fundamental'  


Mike Fitzpatrick of Limerick School of Art and Design, describes his large­scale paintings as “flirting with Americana and film noir . . . It could be the west of Ireland or the American Midwest.”

He has exhibited extensively in Ireland including the Future Perfect Exhibition, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin 2012.  In 2007 he won first prize at Digital Hub, Dublin (chairman: Brian Maguire (artist and  Head of Fine Arts at NCAD),Brona Molloy (President of The Art Teachers Association of Ireland) and Iain Davidson (Visual Arts Specialist at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland). in 2012 he won the Manifest Art Award, Kinsale Art Festival (judges: Patrick Murphy (RHA), Trish Brennan (CCA / CIT), and Mike Fitzatrick, curator of Manifest (LIT)






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		<excerpt>BARTOSZ KOLATA     Bartosz Kolata was born in 1979 in Torun, Poland. In 2006 he graduated Art Conservation and Restoration at Nicolaus Copernicus University UMK...</excerpt>

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		<title>MYRA JAGO</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:36:27 +0000</pubDate>

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		<category><![CDATA[Myra Jago, Artist]]></category>

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		<description>MYRA JAGO


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Myra Jago graduated from The National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2011 with a Masters in Fine Art, after completing a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting in 2009 at the same College. She was a selected emerging artist for ArtNow, KT Contemporary, the Dublin Contemporary 2011 Circle Programme.  Myra lives and work in Dublin, she first exhibited with the Jonathan Swift Gallery in October 2011 at our Wexford Festival Exhibition.

Jago examines how we negotiate the world and the agencies influencing our perception of that world. She looks at how we experience it and the factors which influence and impact upon each encounter. The subject matter has generated tangents of investigation into neurology, psychology, physics alongside contemporary art. Current work considers how we evaluate and notes the split in our response as we parley between considered and instinctive analysis. Jago uses mirroring and symmetry, where a thing appears apart from itself, to describe this dichotomy - the curious lure of the mirrored image converses with some innate sense rather than the conscious mind, while reiteration within symmetry renders the object groundless, in a state of suspension. Palindromes, mirrors, duality and symmetry function as terminology and subject matter in the realisation of Myra Jago’s work, ultimately endeavoring to communicate and generate the dual vulnerabilities of reflexive/reflective reaction. 

Jago has exhibited throughout Ireland, won a site-specific ELIA commission in Brussels, co-produced an audience-participatory event on Dame Street, Dublin and exhibited in The Central Bank, Dame Street. Her work appears in The OPW Collections at St. Stevens Green, Athlone and Roscommon, The Central Bank &#38; FSAI Collection, The AXA Insurance Collection, Kildare County Council Collection and many private collections throughout Ireland, Belgium, Italy, Japan, The UK and The USA.

Myra Jago is supported by Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council


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Myra Jago, The Big Picture oil on canvas 150x120cm


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Myra Jago, Imager, oil on canvas, 120x150cm


Purchase / Viewing Enquiries: Contact Peter Brennan 
Mobile: +353 (86) 8035771
Phone: +353 (1) 4164612
peter@jonathanswiftgallery.com</description>
		
		<excerpt>MYRA JAGO      Myra Jago graduated from The National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2011 with a Masters in Fine Art, after completing a BA (Hons) in Fine Art...</excerpt>

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		<title>IRENE BARRY</title>
				
		<link>http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/IRENE-BARRY</link>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:22:41 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>IRENE BARRY

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Ophelia Series, lambda print, ed of 3, 40x40cm



Irene Barry was born in 1985. She studied at NCAD, Dublin and graduated in 2007 with a BA in History of Art and Printed Textile Design. Irene’s work has featured in a number of group exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including the RHA Annual exhibition 2012 &#38; The Peppercannister Gallery, Dublin where the group exhibition included the work renowned Photographer  Abigail O'Brien.  Her work was Selected for the OPW Art of the State travelling exhibition titled 'Flow' in 2010 and she was selected for the catalogue cover and all publicity involved with the exhibition.

The works depicted here are from 'The Ophelia Series', a collection of photography inspired by the haunting image of Ophelia painted by John Everett Millais(1852).   Irene is fascinated by the transformative quality of water, turning the ordinary into the surreal and magical.  In her work she stages photo shoots underwater.  Setting up bizarre photographic still life’s by manipulating elements such as light, scale, perspective and colour.  The forms are fragmented and distorted by the swirls and ripples created by the water.
The photographs seem to possess movement assisted by the abstract qualities that water creates when her subjects are submerged, and a cinematic quality. 



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Ophelia Series, lambda print, ed of 3, 40x40cm


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Ophelia Series, lambda print, ed of 4, 20x20cm, detail


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Ophelia Series, lambda print, ed of 4, 20x20cm


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Ophelia Series, lambda print, ed of 4, 40x40cm</description>
		
		<excerpt>IRENE BARRY   Ophelia Series, lambda print, ed of 3, 40x40cm    Irene Barry was born in 1985. She studied at NCAD, Dublin and graduated in 2007 with a BA in History...</excerpt>

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		<title>Event finishes, Kilkenny</title>
				
		<link>http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/Event-finishes-Kilkenny</link>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:38:11 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Jonathan Swift Gallery</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Kilkenny Arts Festival]]></category>

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		<description>Annual Kilkenny Arts Festival Exhibition 2012.
85 High Street, Kilkenny
Friday10th - Sunday19th August.  

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This event has now closed.

If you'd like to enquire about works you saw in the show please contact:

Peter Brennan peter@jonathanswiftgallery.com
Mobile: +353 86 8035771

sample selection of works:


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Anthony Scott, Reclining Whippet, 2012, Bronze, 15" x 36" x 9"



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Ann Quinn, Industrial Serenity, 2012, oil on gessoed board, 30 x 40 cm



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Irene Barry, Ophelia Series, Lamda Print, ed of 3, 40x40cm



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Natalia Black, Sailing on Lough Erne, acrylic on board, 25x33cm



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Brian Bourke, installation view



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Ann Quinn, Influence, 2012, oil on board, 30x40cm



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Gillian Lawler, Sink Hole, 2012, oil on canvas



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Irene Barry, Ophelia Three, 2012, mounted lambda print, 20x20cm



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Peter Killeen, Small Bird, Bronze, A/C



IRENE BARRY  /  NATALIA BLACK  /  LOUIS LE BROCQUY  /  BRIAN BOURKE  /  CLIFFORD COLLIE  /  WILLIAM CROZIER  /  MIKE DUHAN  /  CATHERINE GREENE  /  JUDY HAMILTON  /  PETER KILLEEN  /  BARTOSZ KOLATA  /  GILLIAN LAWLER  /  COLIN MARTIN  /  SEAN MCSWEENEY  /  EOIN O'CONNOR  /  ANN QUINN  /  ANTHONY SCOTT  /  IMOGEN STUART







We would like to sincerely thank the sponsors of this event: 

Pembroke Hotel  www.pembrokekilkenny.com

Purcell Masterson  www.purcellmasterson.com
 


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		<excerpt>Annual Kilkenny Arts Festival Exhibition 2012. 85 High Street, Kilkenny Friday10th - Sunday19th August.      This event has now closed.  If you'd like to enquire...</excerpt>

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		<title>ANN QUINN</title>
				
		<link>http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/ANN-QUINN</link>

		<comments>http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/following/jonathanswiftgallery.com/ANN-QUINN</comments>

		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 04:13:07 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Jonathan Swift Gallery</dc:creator>
		
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		<description>ANN QUINN


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Ann Quinn was born in Donegal in 1978,  she graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 2000.

Her paintings often reflect a fleeting recollection of half remembered places or dreams.  They are an attempt to recapture a moment of clarity and wonder.  She has discussed her recollection of a specific childhood dream ' I had a dream when I was very young down in the fields of my home where I grew up in Donegal. I was climbing over a ditch onto another field which was on higher ground.  As I climbed up, instead of seeing more fields there was an ocean in front of me.  My instinct was to run home but I made myself stay and watch for a few seconds.  I awoke still in that excitement, then disappointment to find it did not really happen, there was no ocean down our green fields.  The dream and the disappointment has stayed with me since that day.  I am always searching for that enchanting otherworldliness that nature can sometimes bring.'  

Aidan Dunne commented on her Ashford Gallery Exhibition in 2009, ' Her paintings are imbued with a radiant light...she avoids formulaic views and is often drawn to the sky or to oblique and unusual angles.  As with many painters and visual artists generally she is particularly intrigued by what cannot be seen...her paintings are very well made, considered and genuinely meditative.'

Since graduating she has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland in solo and group presentations.  Participating in events at Galway Arts Centre, Eigse Arts Festival, Ashford RHA Gallery, Pallas Contemporary projects, Temple Bar Gallery, West Cork arts Centre, Letterkenny Arts Centre and numerous commercial galleriers.   Quinn is a regular participant at the RHA Annual exhibition and was an invited artist in 2010.  

Awards include: HSE, Per Cent for Art Scheme Commission, Dublin, 2010 
Tyrone Guthrie International Exchange Bursary, 2010 
Hennessey Craig Scholarship, 2009 
Artist Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland, 2009 
Donegal County Council, Arts Grant, 2009   
Dublin City Council, Tyrone Guthrie Centre Award, 2008
 
Collections include: HSE, Office of Public Works, AXA, Four Seasons Hotel Group, Kelly's Hotel Rosslare. 

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		<excerpt>ANN QUINN     Ann Quinn was born in Donegal in 1978,  she graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 2000.  Her paintings often reflect a...</excerpt>

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		<title>HUGH DELAP</title>
				
		<link>http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/HUGH-DELAP</link>

		<comments>http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/following/jonathanswiftgallery.com/HUGH-DELAP</comments>

		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:42:36 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Jonathan Swift Gallery</dc:creator>
		
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		<description>HUGH DELAP


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Works on paper, various dimensions

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Hugh Delap studied at the Crawford College of Art and later received a masters at the University of the Arts London.


He makes small paintings on canvas and paper, which use the language of geometric modernist abstraction in a playful, irreverent and colorful way.  Typically the works use primary colours to create solid shapes that are set against immaterial backdrops, which highlight the fundamental materials of his paintings and at the same time reference a playfulness that is essential to his practice.  


The artist takes images and events from his own experiences and transforms them to paper in the form of preparatory drawings, which subsequently become works on canvas.  Inevitably the final works emerge distorted from their original nucleolus, several sketches mutating into one final work make a suggestion of a work on canvas. So that from the outset there is just a fleeting idea, which will change and develop.  
Delap is interested in allowing the viewer to trace this development, and we can see where paintings are worked and reworked, scraped and scarred. 


The works appear more abstract than representative of the real world. By looking at this distinction, between abstract and figurative painting the artist emphasis’s the material and physical qualities of paint while showing its potential as a descriptive medium. So that that along with his search for an image that forms the basis of the final work, his concern with the physical quality of the works is of equal importance.  The development of each painting forming an intrinsic part of its visual image.  It is clear that constant probing into the materials and process of painting are central to his practice.


He has exhibited in group and solo shows in Dublin, London, Bologna and Chicago.
In 2011 he won the Craig Hennessy Award, and the K&#38;M Evans award for painting. 


Works on canvas, various dimensions:
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Purchase / Viewing Enquiries, Contact: Peter Brennan 
Mobile: +353 (86) 8035771
Phone: +353 (1) 4164612
peter@jonathanswiftgallery.com 
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		<excerpt>HUGH DELAP    Works on paper, various dimensions    Hugh Delap studied at the Crawford College of Art and later received a masters at the University of the Arts...</excerpt>

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		<title>EILIS O'CONNELL</title>
				
		<link>http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/EILIS-O-CONNELL</link>

		<comments>http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/following/jonathanswiftgallery.com/EILIS-O-CONNELL</comments>

		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 04:23:35 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Jonathan Swift Gallery</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Eilis O'Connell, Eilis O'Connell artist]]></category>

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		<description>EILIS O'CONNELL


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Born in Derry in 1953, Eilis O'Connell is one of Ireland's most respected artists and leading sculptors. She attended the Crawford School of Art in Cork 1970-74 also studying in the US, at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston 1974-1975 before returning to the Crawford from 1975-77.

O'Connell has been the recipient of numerous awards   including, the G.P.A. Award for Emerging artists 1981, a fellowship at The British School at Rome 1983-1984 and a P.S.I. Fellowship for New York from the Irish Arts Council. While in New York she won a two-year residency at Delfina Studios in London and was based there until 2001, after which she returned to Ireland.  She received the Art and Work Award for her sculptures at 99 Bishopsgate from the Wapping Arts Trust, and in 1998 she won a Royal Society of Arts Award. She has represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale in 1982 and the Sao Paolo Biennale in 1985.

O'Connell has an extraordinary sense of form.  Her sculptures relate directly to the organic world, and inorganic things in our environment, juxtaposed with the materials used, they give us a greater appreciation of our natural surroundings.  Some of her more recent work explores the combination of very high tech materials with organic detritus from the earth.  

Eilis O' Connell's sculptures can be found in a surprising array of locations; this is the result of the remarkable number of public commissions she has received, the majority of which are in the U.K. the most significant being: 
Secret Station made in 1992 for the Cardiff Bay Arts Trust at the Gateway, Cardiff.  The sculpture is an 11x11x10 metre construction in bronze and steel made of large cone forms, which rhythmically let out steam and are lit up by night by fibre optic lights.  Vowel of Earth Dreaming its Root, a 12 meter high Kilkenny limestone sculpture for the London Docklands Development Corporation at Marsh Wall, The Isle of Dogs, London.  Pero footbridge, a rolling bascule bridge 54 meters long designed in collaboration with Ove Arup Engineers, London in 1999. Amongst her many Irish commissions  are her sculptures for Lismore Castle in Co. Waterford and for Lapps Quay in Cork she created Reedpod, a 13.5 meter sculpture in hand beaten copper and stainless steel, commissioned by Howard Holdings.

In 2002 her large bronze, Unfold, was lent by the Cass Foundation to the Venice Biennale and her smaller sculptures were shown at the Guggenheim Museum. 

She is a founder director of the national sculpture factory in Cork, a former member of the Arts Council of Ireland, a member of Aosdana, and a member of the R.H.A.




Purchase / Viewing Enquiries: Contact Peter Brennan 
Mobile: +353 (86) 8035771
Phone: +353 (1) 4164612
peter@jonathanswiftgallery.com

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		<excerpt>EILIS O'CONNELL    Born in Derry in 1953, Eilis O'Connell is one of Ireland's most respected artists and leading sculptors. She attended the Crawford School of Art...</excerpt>

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		<title>ANNE MADDEN</title>
				
		<link>http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/ANNE-MADDEN</link>

		<comments>http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/following/jonathanswiftgallery.com/ANNE-MADDEN</comments>

		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:33:43 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Jonathan Swift Gallery</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Anne Madden]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">1220635</guid>

		<description>ANNE MADDEN 


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1. Red Mountain Series, 117 x 217 cm, oil on canvas
2. Orbit, 170x170 cm, oil on canvas

Anne Madden is one of Irelands most well known and respected artists, she is also particularly recognized in France. Born in London in 1932 of Irish and Anglo-Chilean parentage. Her early years were spent in Chile and then in England. On childhood holidays and as an adolescent living in Ireland she became intimately familiar with the Burren in Co. Clare which was later to be an important source of inspiration for her painting. She attended the Chelsea School of Arts and Crafts from 1950 to 1952, but her work was interrupted during the latter part of the decade due to a series of spinal operations. In 1958 she married the painter Louis Le Brocquy. During the 1960s she began to paint large scale canvases often in a diptych, triptych or multiple format. These fluid, light-filled organic forms, inspired by rock and land masses, firmly established Madden as one of the leading abstract artists in Ireland. She won the first Carroll's Award at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1964 and represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale in the following year. 

Her reputation, both in Ireland and internationally, has continued to grow and she has had numerous solo shows in London, Dublin, Belfast, Paris, New York and elsewhere. She is represented in public collections in Ireland, and abroad. Madden has had more than 50 Solo exhibitions to date including RHA Gallagher Galleries, Dublin, 1991; Chateau de Tours Municipal Art Gallery, France, 1997; Dublin City Gallery: The Hugh Lane, Dublin, 1997; Taylor Galleries, Dublin, 2005; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, 2005 and IMMA comprehensive retrospective 2007.





Purchase / Viewing Enquiries: Contact Joseph Brennan 
Mobile: +44 7980 253831
Phone: +44 2893 353755
email

</description>
		
		<excerpt>ANNE MADDEN     1. Red Mountain Series, 117 x 217 cm, oil on canvas 2. Orbit, 170x170 cm, oil on canvas  Anne Madden is one of Irelands most well known and...</excerpt>

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		<title>WESLEY TRIGGS</title>
				
		<link>http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/WESLEY-TRIGGS</link>

		<comments>http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/following/jonathanswiftgallery.com/WESLEY-TRIGGS</comments>

		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:05:21 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Jonathan Swift Gallery</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Wesley Triggs]]></category>

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		<description>WESLEY TRIGGS


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1. Stains that Dappled the Cement, oil on board, 60 x 60cm
2.  You Beauty Black Beauty, oil on board, 60 x 60cm
3. Absolute Rust, oil on steel and board, 90 x 90cm
4.  Beacon of Crimson, oil on steel, 30 x 45cm
5. Broken Summer, oil on steel, 40 x 60cm
6. Colour Catcher, oil on canvas, 125 x 155cm

Wesley Triggs lives and works in Cork city, he graduated from the Crawford College of Art in 2004.  He has subsequently held two solo exhibitions with the Paul Kane Gallery Dublin and one with The Vanguard Gallery Cork.  Since 2008 he has participated in numerous projects with the Jonathan Swift Gallery.

Triggs’s paintings are strikingly original, layers of paint evoke only vague similarities to elements within several distinguished abstract painters work, among them the early works of Mark Francis.  Like Francis, Wesley Triggs is referring to something very specific.  That is his immediate urban environement which translates into his strong use of vertical, diagonal and horizontal shapes, lines, and forms in his work. He is focused on the building, then breaking down of structural elements within his paintings.   Surface quality and texture in the work at times pertain to the weathered paint surfaces and rusted stains on structures in his native city.  His works on steel enhance the translucent quality of his use of paint.  Also inherent is his attention to the physicality of paint and it’s potential for expression.  The most recognizable albiet ambiguous motifs in the work are industrial buildings, sheet metal roofs of warehouses, and perhaps the long rusted harbor walls of Cork City, they have a physicality that stay with anyone that takes a moment to look, and that rusted presence literally seeps out of Wesley’s works and form part of their unique identity.

Recently he has introduced copper and steel sheets, which he must incise, curve and polish, their minimal essence jar with the sophisticated, brush and comb marks that allow us to trace the movement of his hand across it's painted board, he is not an artist that fears the rapid progression of ideas within his own work.  The sleek metal surfaces more obviously reference architecture &#38; industry, and have a sculptural element, their reflection creating an illusion of movement, the works present a dichotomy of construction and decay.




Purchase / Viewing Enquiries: Contact Joseph Brennan 
Mobile: +44 7980 253831
Phone: +44 2893 353755
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		<excerpt>WESLEY TRIGGS    1. Stains that Dappled the Cement, oil on board, 60 x 60cm 2.  You Beauty Black Beauty, oil on board, 60 x 60cm 3. Absolute Rust, oil on steel and...</excerpt>

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