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Kathlyn O'Brien

Curriculum Vitae

TRAINING:
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On reflection

2001 - 2003 National College of Art & Design - M.A. Media Degree.

1987 - 1990 Slavonic Fellowship , Paris. Photography \ Sculpture , Poland.

1986 “Arts Council Apprenticship to Pro. Magdalena Abakanowicz.

1980 - 1985 National College of Art & Design - Ist class Hons. Sculpture Degree.


WORK EXPERIENCE:

1986 - 1990 Lived and worked in Poland - Sculpture\Photography.

1990 - 1992 Paul Levi’s , Upbrook Antique guilded frame Studio, London.

1993 Visiting lecturer, N.C.A.D. Dublin.

1994 Artist in Residence, Newpark, Blackrock.

1996 - 1997 Sculpture Lecturer, Art Access, Dunlaoghaire.

1997 - 1999 Sculpture Lecturer, Polio Fellowship, Stillorgan.

2000 Visiting Lecturer, N.C.A.D.

2000 Sculpture Lecturer, Senior College, Stillorgan.

2001 - 2002 Art Lecturer, St.Patrick’s Teacher Training College, Drumcondra.

2003 Commissioned work for a Medical Clinic, North Dublin.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2009 Baggage, The Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin.

2002 Irregularities, The Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin.

1996 The Arts Council, Dublin.

1996 Innocence Lost In Transit”, Project Arts Centre, Dublin.

1990 P.W.S.S.P. Poznan, Poland.

1989 Krakow, Poland.

1989 P.W.S.S.P. Poznan, Poland.


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2006 Kells, Co. Kilkenny.

2006 Strata Florida, Wales.

2005 RHA Annual show, Dublin.

2003 M.A. Degree Show, Hughlane Gallery. Dublin.

1998 Aer Rianta, Dublin.

1998 Group exhibition, The Courthouse, Waterford.

1997 RHA Annual Exhibition, invited artist, Dublin.

1989 Group show, Kracow, Poland.

1987 - 1988 Group shows, P.W.S.S.P., Poznan, Poland.


AWARDS:

2001 Dept. of Forign Affairs, Cultural Relations Committee award.

2001 Arts Council, Materials Award.

1999 Arts Council, Travel Award, to view the Venice Biennale.

1997 Arts Council, Travel Award, to view the Kienholtz Exhibition, Berlin.

1996 Arts Council, Materials Award.

1987 - 1990 Unesco Slavonic Fellowship, Paris, to continue work in Poland.

1986 - 1987 Arts Council Apprenticeship award, to work with Pro. Magdalena Abakanowicz, Poland.


BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2006 Irish Times, review by Aidan Dunn, August 17th.

2003 Irish Times, review by Aidan Dunne, June 13th.

2003 Sunday Tribune, review by Marianne Hartigan. June 15th.

2002 Irish Times, review by Aidan Dunne, Janurary 9th.

1998 Art Pages, in collaboration with John Brown [Poet] CIRCA 84.

1996 Sunday Times, reveiw by Medb Ruane.

1996 Project Arts Centre, review by Aidan Dunne, CIRCA 76.
COLLECTIONS:

The Arts Council , Dublin and numerous private collection s: New York, Anguilla, France, Poland and Scotland.

 
Mary Clancy
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Mary Clancy graduated from the Crawford College of Art and Design in 2007. She was awarded the Eli Lilly Purchase Prize 2007, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Art competition at The Crawford College of Art and Design in 2007 and was the recipient of The Countess Markievicz Gold Medal for Painting from the Dublin Arts Society in 2004. Her work is in the collections of Eli Lilly, The University Dental School and Hospital,Cork and The Cork Institute of Technology. Since graduation in June '07 Mary has exhibited at The Royal Dublin Society Art Student Awards Exhibition, The Recent Grads Show, The Joan Clancy Gallery, Ring, Co. Waterford and the Fledglings Exhibition in The Lavitt Gallery Cork.

Artist's Statement:

In painting I seek to reveal the extraordinary within the ordinary and to challenge established visual memories, as in those moments when light splinters and shatters across a space, transforming the familiar and the mundane. Similarly when shadows shift and grow to become more animated and substantial than their origins they imprint the surroundings like memories that are never accurate but hold some shape of the experience. Reflective surfaces also distort space in ways that mirror our modern concept of time, distorting the daily linear narrative into a flexible customised frame. We record and play back so much of our lives that sometimes it appears were are not living in real time but some form of simulation. In the French Horn series the bell of the horn appears to pull the space it reflects into the instrument in proportion to the music that can emanate from it; space and sound run counter current.

 
Veronica Bolay R.H.A.
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Veronica Bolay is known for her atmospheric landscapes and her inspired treatment of the elements. She draws a lot of her inspiration from her rural county Mayo surrondings. She is an academician at the Royal Hibernian Academy and was recently elected to Aosdana.

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Margaret O' Sullivan
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Margaret O'Sullivan attended the Crawford College of Art as a mature student and qualified with an honours degree in Fine Art in 1993. She also received a diploma in the History of Art at University College Cork in 2002.

Her work is informed by nature and the forces within nature. She works in situ in a variety of landscapes such as Allihies in West Cork, Cloghroe, Co. Cork, Achill Island, Co. Mayo. She also spends time working in Crete, Greece at regular intervals. At the moment she is working and living on Achill Island.

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Eoin Mac Lochlainn
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Head No 5

The Paul Kane Gallery is delighted to announce that Eoin Mac Lochlainn was last nights recipient of The Golden Fleece Award-http://www.goldenfleeceaward.com/site/about.htm- in recognition his achievements in the field of figurative painting. Eoin’s current exhibition Dearcadh continues at The Paul Kane Gallery until March 22nd. Eoin Mac Lochlainn has had a Catalogued solo show 'Requiem' in Kilmainham Gaol, solo shows in The Temple Bar Galleries, The Ashford RHA Gallery and the Hallward Gallery Dublin, and group shows in The Project Arts Centre and the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China. He has works in the collections of the OPW, AIB, Bank of Ireland, Revenue Commissioners and Wesley College.

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Matthew O'Kane
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Matthew O'Kane is a recent graduate of the National College of Art and Design Dublin where he achieved a BA in Fine Art Painting, he then achieved a Msc in Multimedia in Dublin City University. He was short listed for a digital media award http://www.digitalmedia.ie/ . He is in the collection of the OPW and the Board of Judges of the RDS.

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Frozen Hill 3
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