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NEWS: My portrait of Catherine Corless has been shortlisted for the Zurich Portrait Prize 2021. It is on show in the National Gallery Dublin along with the 23 other finalists. The winner is Salvatore of Lucan. The exhibition continues in Dublin until 3 April 2022 and moves to the Crawford in Cork from 23 April to 17 July 2022. Admission is free but must be booked online due to Covid number limits. To find out more about Catherine Corless and her work follow the link. My last solo exhibition entitled Food Fight took place in The Séamus Ennis Centre in The Naul, County Dublin. See Exhibitions page. I took part in an interview with Alan Keane who runs The Artist's Well, an archive of nearly 50 interviews with prominent artists from around the country. Mine can be viewed on YouTube, episode 46 and it lasts 1 hour and 15 minutes. A book called The Source, which features the first 50 artists has been published. My solo exhibition, called The Secular Icons, which was shown in Axis, Ballymun for the month of November 2017 was very successful, both commercially and critically. Most of all it was very popular with the local people of Ballymun who had very nice comments to make. Follow the links below to read reviews. Professor Gary Granville wrote this review published in CIRCA, https://circaartmagazine.net/gary-granville-paul-maccormaic/ and this one appeared in the DUBLIN INQUIRER www.dublininquirer.com/2017/11/14/a-ballymun-exhibit-frames-the-profane-with-the-sacred/ The exhibition consisted of nineteen small-scale icons that have the same subject matter as Byzantine and Renaissance icons but with contemporary themes. Religious icons gave worshippers the template of how to live, the ideal family and how to behave etc. In modern times, ethical decisions are often influenced by advertising and the mass media. The exhibition took an often humorous look at body image, buying free range and raising a family in contemporary Ireland. See the full content in the Exhibitions page. |
