Cavanacor Gallery

 

Summer Group Exhibition

Eamon O'Kane, Charlie Whisker, Martin Mooney, Philip Moss,
Wim Jonkman, Sean Fingleton, David O'Kane, Deborah Brown, Carol Anne McGowan & Joanna O'Kane

An exhibition of painting, print and sculpture

From 7th July - 31st August 2007.
Opening times : Tuesday - Saturday 12.00 pm - 6.00 pm
or by appointment
Tel 074 9141143

The line up for summer 2007 introduces two international artists to the Gallery for the first time.Charlie Whisker has exhibited in America, Belfast and Dublin, most recently at the Solomon 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.

Wim Jonkman is a leading print practitioner from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal in the 'Prix de Rome' in 1972, he lectures in print at Minerva Academie in Groningen and his most recent exhibitions have been in Berlin, Paris, Munich and Sweden .

Also exhibiting are Philip Moss who recently exhibited in the Fenderensky Gallery, Belfast, he lives and works in Donegal and studied at the National College of Art & Design and the Bezatel School of Art in Jerusalem. He spent two years in London working for James Kirkman, Lucian Freud's agent.

Martin Mooney studied at the University of Ulster, Belfast, Brighton College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. He was recipient of the Arts Council George Campbell Memorial Award and the Richard Ford Award from the Royal Academy in London.

Eamon O'Kane, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at UWE, Bristol studied in Dublin, Belfast and New York and is recipient of many awards and scholarships including the Taylor Art Award, Tony O'Mally Award, Fulbright, and EV+A open award, the British School at Rome Scholarship and Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.

Sean Fingleton's contribution to Irish Art has been regularly acknowledged and he has received a number of awards and accolades, including: Independent Artists Painting Bursary, GPA Emerging Artists Award, Fergus O'Ryan RHA Memorial Award, and he is twice prize-winner in the Claremorris Open Exhibition and a leading landscape practitioner who has been recognised by the Irish state through his election to Aosdána.Renowned in Ireland for her pioneering exploration of the medium of fibre glass in the sixties,

Deborah Brown has established herself as one of the country's leading sculptors and has achieved extensive international acclaim. She described by Mike Catto as demonstrating "a remarkable constancy of purpose". She studied in Belfast and Dublin and was influenced by time spent in Paris in the early 1950s. Her work is represented in many collections including The Irish Museum of Modern Art, the BBC, the Ulster Museum, RTE, Bank of Ireland, the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery and the Arts Council.

David O'Kane was recently awarded a DAAD Scholarship to pursue a MA in Germany. He was selected for the CAP Foundation Award - studio and stipend in Dublin for a year in 2006-07. In the 2006 Royal Hibernian Academy Exhibition he won the O'Sullivan Graphics Award and was runner up in the Hennessy Craig Scholarship. He has previously been recipient of the Henry Higgins Travel Scholarship from the R.D.S was Highly Commended in the Markevicz Gold Medal 2004.

Carol Anne McGowan graduated from N.C.A.D. in 2006 is currently exhibition in the Iontas Small works exhibition, Sligo. In 2005 she exhibited the New Irish Painting at the Context Gallery, Derry and at Academie Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Joanna O'Kane who has exhibited in venues including the Context Galleries, Derry, Sligo Art Gallery, Boyle Arts Festival, Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition at the Ulster Museum, Vallaurise in France, Castelli and Faenza in Italy. The Guardian has commented "Joanna O'Kane has created her enigmatic performance sculptures since the early 1980s, choreographing the simple scenarios that explore the body and the objects and materials it comes into contact with." May 2003.