Cavanacor Gallery

 

Charlie Whisker

Charlie Whisker has exhibited in America, Belfast and Dublin, most recently at the Solomon Gallery and Cavanacor Gallery. He taught painting at the National College of Art and Design and worked as a Video Director in Los Angeles. His work has won international awards and he was nominated for a Grammy for his video work with Bob Dylan.
‘In Charlie Whisker's preserve people are represented only by the detritus they left behind. We are them, looking back at scenes we decided to leave. It's hard to know whether we had any choice. What seems certain is that troubling questions remain atomized into the atmosphere of each painting. In them we find ourselves walking on the bottom of an unfathomable, unbreathable substance whose deck is strewn with the debris of some mental shipwreck, alien to the everyday and ordinary, yet, somehow of the essence. The pieces lie scattered over the ground, or they float abandoned in metaphorical isolation on a vast ocean of dark anxiety. Beckett would have understood these images with a wry smile.’ Geoff Morrow, Senior Conservator of Art, National Gallery of Canada
Charlie Whisker lives in Dublin, Ireland. He is a highly regarded artist whose work is in the collections of the Arts Council, Allied Irish Banks, the Ulster Museum and private collectors such as members of U2, Steven Soderberg, John Boorman, Paul McGuinness, Lord Henry Mountcharles.

 

"Last night" 46 x 60 cm

 

 

 

 

'Girlfriend' 76 x 102 cm

acrylic on canvas

 

 

 

 

Here & Then

36 x 46 cm

 

 

 

 

Eidetic Days

oil on canvas, 53 x 51 cm

 

Sempiternal

oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cms