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‘New Masters’
Gallery 2
An exhibition of work by Neil Shawcross, Brian Ballard, Felim Egan, Hughie O’Donoghue,
Alice Hanratty & Sean Fingleton
9th April - 3rd June 2011 Tuesday – Saturday 12.00 – 6.00 pm
‘New Masters’
Some of the leading exponents of art in Ireland are coming together in an exhibition of painting and print at Cavanacor Gallery in April. Neil Shawcross, Hughie O’Donoghue, Felim Egan, Brian Ballard, Sean Fingleton and Alice Hanratty have been well established on the Irish art scene for many years.
The work of Neil Shawcross has dealt with the figure, the mundane and everyday objects for many years, but his recent work in mixed media uses metaphor to create a double meaning. Shawcross sources his subject matter from his surroundings and collects ‘shop memorabilia’ he also uses found objects and collage in much of his work, he is renowned for his distinctive imagery and economy of artifice.
Cavanaor Gallery has a selection of Hughie O’Donoghue’s carborundum prints from the intriguing Residues and Postcard from Milan series. He studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London and was Artist in Residence at the National Gallery London in 1984. The Passion Series paintings 'Via Crucis' and 'Episodes from the Passion' shown at Haus der Kunst, Munich and RHA, Dublin were made over a period of 10 years and were commissioned by an American collector. At present, they are on loan to the Irish people.
Felim Egan known as a painter of restrained eloquence. His paintings are built up slowly with layers of thin colour applied to the surface and stone powder ground into the acrylic. The work is universal in spirit and at the same time emotionally intimate. His paintings are epiphanic, in that they convey to us the essential nature or meaning of something of which we were previously unaware. He is an abstract artist, a painter of quite formal abstract images, and yet his work is tied to the place he lives and works, to the long horizons, big skies and empty sands of the strand and sea. In this way his abstract paintings are almost landscapes, with a magical quality that his neighbour, the poet Seamus Heaney, has aptly described “a balance of shifting brilliances”.
Sean Fingleton’s painting demonstrates a fervent passion for its subject matter: the landscapes and seascapes of Donegal, Dublin and Wicklow, coupled with still life of a unique intimacy and immediacy. Sean Fingleton has been exhibiting in Ireland and abroad for the past thirty years. Named by some of the country’s leading art critics as ‘one to watch’ in the category of established artists, he is an excellent artist for investment.
Brian Ballard has established a significant reputation over the past thirty years, represented in Ireland’s major public collections. According to Marianne O’Kane Boal; “His contemporary approach to painting alternates between figurative treatment of nudes, and landscape to expressionistic still life, all of which he practises in equal measure and intensity. This trinity of genres has enabled a spontaneity of approach that has endured for the artist in recent decades and yet within this diverse range of output, each composition bears the instantly recognisable stamp of Ballard.”
Born in Dublin, Alice Hanratty studied painting and printmaking at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin and the Hornsey College of Art in London. She worked and travelled in East Africa for several years before returning to Ireland. Hanratty represented Ireland at International Impact Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan; Works on Paper Group Exhibition, the Armory, New York; London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London; International Biennale of Print, Beograd, Serbia; and the "Estampe" International Print Exchange, Paris. She has frequently exhibited prints and drawings at the Royal Hibernian Academy, in both solo and group shows. Recent commissions include suites of drawings for the refurbishment of Landsdowne House, Dublin and for a new education centre in Galway by De Blacam & Meagher Architects.
Alice Hanratty
'The Dukes Child', etching A/P, 50 x 44 cm
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Alice Hanratty
'Imperial child', watercolour, 62 x 50 cm
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Sean Fingleton
'Evening Sea from a Dune Glencolmcille', oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm
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Sean Fingleton
'Cliff', oil on canvas, 71 x 104 cm
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Sean Fingleton
'Houses Near the Sea Glencolmcille', oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm
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Felim Egan'Field dream', acrylic & mixed media on board, 76 x 76 cm
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Felim Egan
'Gamboge Cross', acrylic & mixed media on board, 49 x 49cm
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Brian Ballard
'Poppies & Lemons', oil on canvas,40 x 60 cm
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Brian Ballard
'Roses with Books', oil on canvas, 36 x 24 cm
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Brian Ballard
'Sunflowers with Irons', oil on canvas, 42 x 56 cm
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Hughie O'Donoghue
'North of Rouen', carborundum, 82 x122 cm
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Neil Shawcross
'Chair', acrylic on board 45 x 61 cm
Cavanacor Gallery, Ballindrait, Lifford, Co. Donegal, Tel/Fax 074 91 41143 Website:cavanacorgallery.ie Email: art@cavanacorgallery.ie
