http://www.jonathanswiftgallery.com Jonathan Swift Gallery Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:01:42 +0000 http://www.jonathanswiftgallery.com en http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/HUGH-DELAP http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/following/jonathanswiftgallery.com/HUGH-DELAP Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:01:42 +0000 Jonathan Swift Gallery 2381277 <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/Untitled 3- Hugh Delap- Oil on Paper- 30cm x 38cm- 2011_500.jpeg" border="0" width="500" height="402" width_o="1192" height_o="960" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/Untitled 3- Hugh Delap- Oil on Paper- 30cm x 38cm- 2011_o.jpeg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/Untitled 2- Hugh Delap- Oil on Paper- 30cm x 38cm- 2011_500.jpeg" border="0" width="500" height="394" width_o="1217" height_o="960" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/Untitled 2- Hugh Delap- Oil on Paper- 30cm x 38cm- 2011_o.jpeg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/Procession- Hugh Delap- Oil on Paper- 30cm x 38cm- 2011_500.jpeg" border="0" width="500" height="390" width_o="1228" height_o="960" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/Procession- Hugh Delap- Oil on Paper- 30cm x 38cm- 2011_o.jpeg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/Untitled- Hugh Delap- Oil on Paper- 30cm x 38cm- 2011_500.jpeg" border="0" width="500" height="397" width_o="1208" height_o="960" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/Untitled- Hugh Delap- Oil on Paper- 30cm x 38cm- 2011_o.jpeg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/Structure- Hugh Delap- Oil on Paper- 30cm x 38cm- 2011_500.jpeg" border="0" width="500" height="392" width_o="1222" height_o="960" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/Structure- Hugh Delap- Oil on Paper- 30cm x 38cm- 2011_o.jpeg" align="left" /> 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 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&M Evans award for painting. Works on canvas, various dimensions: <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/04-09- oil on_canvas- 59cm x 71cm- 2009. email._500.jpeg" border="0" width="500" height="404" width_o="1188" height_o="960" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/04-09- oil on_canvas- 59cm x 71cm- 2009. email._o.jpeg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/Crowd- 59 x70cm- oil on canvas on board- 2011_500.jpeg" border="0" width="500" height="404" width_o="660" height_o="534" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/Crowd- 59 x70cm- oil on canvas on board- 2011_o.jpeg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/15-10- oil on paper- 42 x 55cm- 2009. email_500.jpeg" border="0" width="500" height="397" width_o="526" height_o="418" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/15-10- oil on paper- 42 x 55cm- 2009. email_o.jpeg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/08-09- oil on canvas- 59cm x 71 cm- 2009- email._500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="421" width_o="709" height_o="598" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/08-09- oil on canvas- 59cm x 71 cm- 2009- email._o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/05-09- oil on canvas- 59cm x 71cm- 2009. email_500.jpeg" border="0" width="500" height="417" width_o="1150" height_o="960" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/2381277/05-09- oil on canvas- 59cm x 71cm- 2009. email_o.jpeg" align="left" /> Purchase / Viewing Enquiries, Contact: Peter Brennan Mobile: +353 (86) 8035771 Phone: +353 (1) 4164612 peter@jonathanswiftgallery.com http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/EILIS-O-CONNELL http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/following/jonathanswiftgallery.com/EILIS-O-CONNELL Thu, 05 May 2011 09:23:35 +0000 Jonathan Swift Gallery 1399618 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/Lean and Sissl-1.jpeg" border="0" width="311" height="405" width_o="311" height_o="405" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/Lean and Sissl-1_o.jpeg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/Sissl2.jpeg" border="0" width="304" height="405" width_o="304" height_o="405" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/Sissl2_o.jpeg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/Sissl Top_500.jpeg" border="0" width="500" height="375" width_o="539" height_o="405" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/Sissl Top_o.jpeg" align="left" /> 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 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/Plakoti-Weight.jpeg" border="0" width="319" height="480" width_o="319" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/Plakoti-Weight_o.jpeg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/Woven Skirt 3.jpeg" border="0" width="326" height="405" width_o="326" height_o="405" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/Woven Skirt 3_o.jpeg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/Cave.jpeg" border="0" width="465" height="405" width_o="465" height_o="405" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/Cave_o.jpeg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/Secret Station.jpg" border="0" width="411" height="405" width_o="411" height_o="405" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/Secret Station_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/PeroBridge-1.jpeg" border="0" width="406" height="405" width_o="406" height_o="405" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/PeroBridge-1_o.jpeg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/Space20Emptied20Out_500.jpeg" border="0" width="500" height="336" width_o="602" height_o="405" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1399618/Space20Emptied20Out_o.jpeg" align="left" /> http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/HUGH-McCARTHY http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/following/jonathanswiftgallery.com/HUGH-McCARTHY Wed, 04 May 2011 16:39:45 +0000 Jonathan Swift Gallery 1396842 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newWall-on-wind--40cm-x-40cm-acrylic-on-canvas-2008-1_500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="500" width_o="900" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newWall-on-wind--40cm-x-40cm-acrylic-on-canvas-2008-1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newIMG_1807_500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="502" width_o="747" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newIMG_1807_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newIMG_1808_500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="491" width_o="763" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newIMG_1808_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newNightSwimming-1_500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="494" width_o="759" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newNightSwimming-1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newNINTENDO-FAMINE-200ii_500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="496" width_o="755" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newNINTENDO-FAMINE-200ii_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/this-is-Tonto-40cm-x-40cm--mixed-media-on-canvas--2008_500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="503" width_o="745" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/this-is-Tonto-40cm-x-40cm--mixed-media-on-canvas--2008_o.jpg" align="left" /> 1. Wall on Wind, acrylic on canvas, 40x40cm 2. Excess and confinement 7, mixed media on canvas, 100x100cm 3. Pink Noise, arcylic on canvas, 100x100cm 4. Night Swimming, acrylic on canvas, 50x50cm 5. Nintendo Famine, acrylic on canvas, 40x40cm 6. Tonto, mixed media on canvas,40x40cm Hugh McCarthy completed a degree in Fine art (painting) at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2000 and a masters in Fine Art at St.Martin's College, London in 2002. McCarthys paintings hover somewhere between an explosive fairytale and an hallucinogenic nightmare. They're full of recognizable motifs, symbols, drips, scribbles and intense shapes and bands of colour, with the odd figurative or text element present, but their objective is not initially clear. The colours and shapes may align themselves to works from pop art but they have a definite emotive content. Asked to describe his method of working he's said, it's like Jekyll and Hyde, wanting chaos and control to co-exist. Critic Eimiear McKeith has commented on his work 'Hugh McCarthy's paintings play with tension and balance, reality and illusion, abstraction and figuration, process and finished product. Integrating popular and high art references with supermarket culture and painterly flourishes, McCarthy's works are a cornucopia of forms and ideas, at once spontaneous and considered, utopian and dystopian, celebratory and elegiac. His practice, in essence, is an investigation of the process of painting.' Beatriz Milhazes and Tomma Abts may seem to have influenced the artist but, he likes artists as diverse as Per Enoksson, Tal R, Paul Henry Ramirez and Seth Adelsberger. McCarthy's paintings are highly original, their marks, forms, and colours reference our urban surroundings, his compositions balance these various elements. Each painting has it's own unique personality, or as Hugh puts it 'some are more well behaved than others'. They are his interpretation of our man-made artificial contemporary environment, with all of it's contradictions; freedom, greed, mass consumption, prosperity, impoverishment the list is endless. He has exhibited extensively in Ireland and Spain, and is the recipient of numerous awards including Kilkenny Council residency 2007, Culture Ireland overseas exhibition grant 2007, Residency studio, Arteleku San Sebastian, Spain 2003 & 2004. Ida Branson Memorial Bequest 2003, UK. He first exhibited with the Jonathan Swift Gallery in 2008. Purchase / Viewing Enquiries: Contact Peter Brennan Mobile: +353 (86) 8035771 Phone: +353 (1) 4164612 peter@jonathanswiftgallery.com <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newWall-on-wind--40cm-x-40cm-acrylic-on-canvas-2008-1_500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="500" width_o="900" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newWall-on-wind--40cm-x-40cm-acrylic-on-canvas-2008-1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newIMG_1807_500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="502" width_o="747" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newIMG_1807_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newIMG_1808_500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="491" width_o="763" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newIMG_1808_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newNightSwimming-1_500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="494" width_o="759" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newNightSwimming-1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newNINTENDO-FAMINE-200ii_500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="496" width_o="755" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/newNINTENDO-FAMINE-200ii_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/this-is-Tonto-40cm-x-40cm--mixed-media-on-canvas--2008_500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="503" width_o="745" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1396842/this-is-Tonto-40cm-x-40cm--mixed-media-on-canvas--2008_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/ANNE-MADDEN http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/following/jonathanswiftgallery.com/ANNE-MADDEN Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:33:43 +0000 Jonathan Swift Gallery 1220635 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1220635/Red-mountain-Series.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="361" width_o="680" height_o="367" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1220635/Red-mountain-Series_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1220635/Orbit--1998-oil-on-canvas-170x170cm.jpg" border="0" width="472" height="400" width_o="472" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1220635/Orbit--1998-oil-on-canvas-170x170cm_o.jpg" align="left" /> 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 http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/WESLEY-TRIGGS http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/following/jonathanswiftgallery.com/WESLEY-TRIGGS Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:05:21 +0000 Jonathan Swift Gallery 1164168 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1164168/Stains-that-dappled-the-cement--Oil-on-board-60cmx-60cm.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="670" width_o="800" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1164168/Stains-that-dappled-the-cement--Oil-on-board-60cmx-60cm_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1164168/Wesley-Triggs--You-Beauty-Black-Beauty--oil-on-board.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="675" width_o="793" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1164168/Wesley-Triggs--You-Beauty-Black-Beauty--oil-on-board_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1164168/Absolute-rust--oil-on-board-on-steel-90cmx90cm.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="670" width_o="700" height_o="700" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1164168/Absolute-rust--oil-on-board-on-steel-90cmx90cm_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1164168/k.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="469" width_o="700" height_o="491" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1164168/k_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1164168/Broken-Summer.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" width_o="700" height_o="464" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1164168/Broken-Summer_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1164168/Colour-Catcher.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="618" width_o="700" height_o="646" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1164168/Colour-Catcher_o.jpg" align="left" /> 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 & 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 Request Price / email <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1164168/Broken-Summer.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" width_o="700" height_o="464" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1164168/Broken-Summer_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/MICHAEL-CANNING http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/following/jonathanswiftgallery.com/MICHAEL-CANNING Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:21:40 +0000 Jonathan Swift Gallery 1154218 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154218/Michael Canning- Expostion 2007.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="926" width_o="816" height_o="1128" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154218/Michael Canning- Expostion 2007_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154218/Feint.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="925" width_o="823" height_o="1137" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154218/Feint_o.jpg" align="left" /> 1. Exposition, oil and wax on canvas over board, 70x50cm 2. Feint, oil and wax on canvas over board, 70x50cm Michael Canning was born in Limerick in 1971. After studying at the Limerick School of Art and Design he studied in Greece at the School of Fine Arts in Athens 1992-1993 and In 1999, he received his Masters Degree in Fine Art from the National College of Art & Design in Dublin. Michael Canning’s paintings of hedgerow plants confront certain traditions of northern European painting. Neither landscapes, nor still life’s, they convey an atmospheric quality laden with spiritual undertones. Heavy mists shroud the rolling hills of the Irish landscape which part only for the wild plants. The plants are rendered directly from observation. Each paintings is built up in layers, using oil paint and wax. They sometimes include the very substance which the painting depicts; ground earth and ash. Michael finds the plants on daily walks near his home in County Limerick. The names of the plants are not important to him, many are known simply by their local names. Some of which are known to be poisons or remedies. The idea that these plants may have healing or adverse properties interests Michael, but it is the not knowing which offers which, that lends the paintings their air of mystery and suspense. Michael has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland and The UK. Including group events with Jonathan Swift Gallery / Highlanes Gallery Drogheda, Eigse International Arts Festival,Carlow, Boyle Arts Festival, Mermaid Arts Centre, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Limerick City Gallery, Galway Arts Centre & several RHA Annual exhibitions. His work is included in several private and public collections including: AIB, McCann Erickson, AXA, Butler Gallery, University of Limerick, OPW Ireland. He won the Hennessy Craig Scholarship in 2003 & the Fergus O'Ryan Memorial Award in 2006, both at the RHA, Dublin. Purchase / Viewing Enquiries: Contact Joseph Brennan Mobile: +44 7980 253831 Phone: +44 2893 353755 Request Price / email http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/IMOGEN-STUART http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/following/jonathanswiftgallery.com/IMOGEN-STUART Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:33:23 +0000 Jonathan Swift Gallery 1152805 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1152805/Imogen Stuart- Methos.jpg" border="0" width="382" height="636" width_o="382" height_o="636" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1152805/Imogen Stuart- Methos_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1152805/Imogen Stuart- in her studio 1998.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="535" width_o="700" height_o="559" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1152805/Imogen Stuart- in her studio 1998_o.jpg" align="left" /> 1. Methos, Bronze, (Maquette for bronze angel on the facade of St Theresa’s Church on Clarendon Street) 2. Imogen in her Studio with Madonna from Christ Church Cathedral. Imogen Stuart was born in Berlin in 1927, she was apprenticed to Otto Hitzberger, former professor of the National College of Fine Art in Berlin, before moving to Ireland in 1951. Her influences range from German expressionism to early Irish Christian art, and she works in wood, stone, bronze, steel, clay, plaster and terracotta. One of Ireland's most beloved artists and senior sculptors, Imogen is best known for her religious works throughout the country, including in Burt, Co Donegal, the doors of Galway Cathedral, Ballintubber Abbey stations of the cross and, most recently, striking bronze angel on the facade of St Theresa’s Church on Dublin’s Clarendon Street. A member of Aosdana since 1981, she exhibited at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery 1987 and was elected a full member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1990 and Professor of Sculpture by the RHA in 2000. A retrospective exhibition of her work was held at the RHA in 2002. She has received the Oireachtas art exhibition award (1972) and the ESB Keating McLoughlin award at the RHA annual exhibition (1999), Imogen has also received honoris causa from Trinity College (2002), UCD (2004) and NUI Maynooth (2005). She lives in Co. Dublin. Purchase / Viewing Enquiries: Contact Peter Brennan Mobile: +353 (86) 8035771 Phone: +353 (1) 4164612 peter@jonathanswiftgallery.com <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1152805/angel_500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="649" width_o="1445" height_o="1877" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1152805/angel_o.jpg" align="left" /> Bronze Angel for the facade of St Theresa’s Church on Clarendon Street, Dublin. http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/JOHN-O-REILLY http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/following/jonathanswiftgallery.com/JOHN-O-REILLY Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:44:21 +0000 Jonathan Swift Gallery 1154163 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154163/jor_afternoon.jpg" border="0" width="523" height="626" width_o="523" height_o="626" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154163/jor_afternoon_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154163/jor_vicar_street.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="334" width_o="1255" height_o="626" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154163/jor_vicar_street_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154163/jor_portmarnock.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="562" width_o="746" height_o="626" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154163/jor_portmarnock_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154163/jor_evening_lights.jpg" border="0" width="618" height="626" width_o="618" height_o="626" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154163/jor_evening_lights_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154163/jor_town.jpg" border="0" width="643" height="626" width_o="643" height_o="626" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154163/jor_town_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154163/jor_dolphins_barn.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="434" width_o="965" height_o="626" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154163/jor_dolphins_barn_o.jpg" align="left" /> John O'Reilly has been a committed graffiti artist for 16 years, only recently has he begun to seriously consider looking at the more restrictive medium of oil on canvas. His former preoccupation leaves it's mark in his paintings and subject matter, he's drawn to areas that may have lent themselves as sites to graffiti and in that sense what holds his attention are typically areas of urban decay. John has exhibited extensively in recent years and has been included in the Candy Karaoke, Monster Truck,Scratch, IFSC, and several group events with the Jonathan Swift Gallery. In 2009 curators of ev+a Angelika Nollert and Yilmaz Dziewior selected him as the only artist of 36 Irish and International participants to present paintings as part of that exhibition under the theme 'Reading the City'. Other noteworthy Irish participants included Willie Doherty, Eamon O'Kane & Alan Phelan. His work has featured in international and Irish documentaries and publications. Recent commissions include Croydon Park Hotel, Surrey, Uk: Grainne Weber architects, Dublin, Electric Picnic, Co.Offaly. Purchase / Viewing Enquiries: Contact Peter Brennan Mobile: +353 86 8035771 Phone: +353 1 4164612 peter@jonathanswiftgallery.com http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/GILLIAN-LAWLER http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/following/jonathanswiftgallery.com/GILLIAN-LAWLER Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:07:17 +0000 Jonathan Swift Gallery 1158517 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1158517/IMG_1074.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="928" width_o="2048" height_o="2837" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1158517/IMG_1074_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1158517/IMG_1070.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="841" width_o="1600" height_o="2010" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1158517/IMG_1070_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1158517/IMG_1071.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="829" width_o="1617" height_o="2002" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1158517/IMG_1071_o.JPG" align="left" /> 1. City on Stilts, oil on canvas, 214 x153cm 2. Untitled, oil on canvas, 153x123cm 3. Urban Mountain, oil on canvas, 153 x123cm Gillian Lawler was born in Kildare in 1977, she recieved a BA in Fine Art (hons) from the National College of Art and Design, and now lives and works in Dublin. Lawler's paintings are modeled on modern building developments, high-density living, apartment upon apartment, tightly packed and claustrophobic. These densely layered images mediate on the possible long term rise and fall of cities, suggesting vast and possibly fragile ambitions. The American historian Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) argued that the structure of modern cities is partially responsible for many social problems seen in western society. While pessimistic in tone, Mumford argues that urban planning should emphasize an organic relationship between people and their living spaces. Gillian considers the spatial, structural and psychological fluctuations and schisms that occur within an urban framework. Formerly familiar structures appear strange and peculiar. The act of architecture is significant in its unavoidable manner of influence and it's ability to affect mood, orientation, pleasure, economy and feelings. Her work explores anxiety and estrangement associated with the experience of architectural space within urban living. Lawler has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland and was the recipient of the 2007 Hennessy Craig Award at the RHA. She recently participated at the Jonathan Swift annual Wexford Festival exhibition, October 2010. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1158517/Devouring-force--oil-on-canvas--102-x-104-cm--2010._500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="481" width_o="850" height_o="819" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1158517/Devouring-force--oil-on-canvas--102-x-104-cm--2010._o.jpg" align="left" /> Devouring Force, oil on canvas, 102x104cm <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1158517/Overwhelming-space--oil-and--graphite-on-canvas--100-x-105-cm--2010._500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="480" width_o="850" height_o="816" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1158517/Overwhelming-space--oil-and--graphite-on-canvas--100-x-105-cm--2010._o.jpg" align="left" /> Overwhelming Space, oil and graphite on canvas, 100x105cm Purchase / Viewing Enquiries: Contact Peter Brennan Mobile: +353 (86) 8035771 Phone: +353 (1) 4164612 peter@jonathanswiftgallery.com http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/CLIFFORD-COLLIE http://jonathanswiftgallery.com/following/jonathanswiftgallery.com/CLIFFORD-COLLIE Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:18:13 +0000 Jonathan Swift Gallery 1154108 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/two-parts-90x90cm-2006_2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="615" width_o="1424" height_o="1308" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/two-parts-90x90cm-2006_2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/By-the-river.-mixed-media-on-canvas-28x24cm-2010.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="539" width_o="2048" height_o="1650" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/By-the-river.-mixed-media-on-canvas-28x24cm-2010_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/Fallen-Tree-January.28x40cm.-2009.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="493" width_o="2048" height_o="1508" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/Fallen-Tree-January.28x40cm.-2009_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/From-the-mountains-to-the-sea.24x36cm.2010.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/From-the-mountains-to-the-sea.24x36cm.2010_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/Husk.-28x24cm.2010.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="535" width_o="2048" height_o="1635" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/Husk.-28x24cm.2010_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/October-2010.mixed-media-on-canvas.24x28cm-.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="516" width_o="2048" height_o="1578" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/October-2010.mixed-media-on-canvas.24x28cm-_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/root-study.-24x26cm-2009-.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="686" width_o="1111" height_o="1139" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/root-study.-24x26cm-2009-_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/Brightness.-Oil-on-canvas.40x50cm.-2009-JPG.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="553" width_o="900" height_o="743" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/Brightness.-Oil-on-canvas.40x50cm.-2009-JPG_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/untitled-spain.-mixed-media-on-canvas-24x28cm.-2005.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="539" width_o="1293" height_o="1041" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/untitled-spain.-mixed-media-on-canvas-24x28cm.-2005_o.jpg" align="left" /> 1. Two Parts, oil on canvas, 90x90cm 2. By the river. mixed media on canvas 28x24cm, 2010 3. Fallen Tree January.28x40cm, 2009 4. From the mountains to the sea.24x36cm, 2010 5. Husk. 28x24cm, 2010 6. October, mixed media on canvas.24x28cm, 2010 7. Root study, oil on canvas, 24x26cm, 2009 8. Brightness, Oil on canvas.40x50cm, 2009 9. Untitled, mixed media on canvas 24x28cm. Born in Dublin in 1960, Clifford Collie attended the National College of Art and Design, Dublin from 1980-1982. He was a full member of Temple Bar Gallery and Studios between 1987 and 1992. For the past twenty years he has divided his time equally between Spain and Ireland. His habitat in spain is particularly arid and this has had a profound effect upon his perspective, vegetation has an elevated status. He captures a particular event, be it only a glimpse of some form of organic life and provokes it to a level where it becomes a metaphor or allegory. Critic Aidan Dunne has commentated 'As with many great Spanish artists - Murillo, Zurbaran, Ribero, El Greco - the paintings of Goya are often fringed by a deep, enveloping darkness. Most of Clifford Collie's recent paintings are similarly articulated against a velvety darkness. They mediate between the unseen, the unknown, and the waking world of reasoned perception with care and even tenderness, they evoke lustrous, ambiguous forms that both invite and confound interpretation.' Clifford Collie has exhibited extensively over the past 20 years both at home and abroad and is a regular exhibitor at the Royal Hibernian Academy. During the 90's he had three solo shows at the Rubicon, since then he has had solo events with The Temple Bar Galleries, Paul Kane Gallery and Solomon. He has exhibited extensively with the Jonathan Swift Gallery since 2006. Awards include Arts Flight Council Ireland, Material Grant Arts Council Ireland, Merit Award CDL. His work is included in many Irish and international private and public collections including Office of Public Works, Irish Life, Contemporary Irish Arts Society, Stokes Kennedy Crowley, National Irish Bank and the Maurice and Marie Foley Collection. Purchase / Viewing Enquiries: Contact Peter Brennan Mobile: +353 (86) 8035771 Phone: +353 (1) 4164612 peter@jonathanswiftgallery.com <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/Brightness.-Oil-on-canvas.40x50cm.-2009-JPG.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="553" width_o="900" height_o="743" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/Brightness.-Oil-on-canvas.40x50cm.-2009-JPG_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/By-the-river.-mixed-media-on-canvas-28x24cm-2010.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="539" width_o="2048" height_o="1650" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/By-the-river.-mixed-media-on-canvas-28x24cm-2010_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/Fallen-Tree-January.28x40cm.-2009.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="493" width_o="2048" height_o="1508" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/Fallen-Tree-January.28x40cm.-2009_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/Husk.-28x24cm.2010.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="535" width_o="2048" height_o="1635" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/Husk.-28x24cm.2010_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/October-2010.mixed-media-on-canvas.24x28cm-.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="516" width_o="2048" height_o="1578" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/October-2010.mixed-media-on-canvas.24x28cm-_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/two-parts-90x90cm-2006_2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="615" width_o="1424" height_o="1308" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/two-parts-90x90cm-2006_2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/untitled-spain.-mixed-media-on-canvas-24x28cm.-2005.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="539" width_o="1293" height_o="1041" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/untitled-spain.-mixed-media-on-canvas-24x28cm.-2005_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/P1050367_500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="381" width_o="2048" height_o="1561" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/P1050367_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/P1050223_500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="367" width_o="1037" height_o="763" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/P1050223_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/P1050214_500.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="355" width_o="1244" height_o="884" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85696/1154108/P1050214_o.jpg" align="left" />