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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.
C.V.
VERONICA BOLAY RHA
1958-63 NCAD Hamburg: Painting and Costume Design (Theatrical)
1968-71 Aachen University, Germany: Group Therapy
1971 Moved to Ireland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 The See-Farer, The Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin
2006 Hallward gallery, Merrion Square, Dublin
2001 Sheepchandler Gallery, Roundstone, Galway
1999/93 Vanguard Gallery, Macroom, Cork
1997/94/91 Rubicon Gallery, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin
1997 Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Mayo<./br>
1995 Artistic License Gallery, Carlingford, Louth<.br>
1994 Carroll Gallery, Longford (collaboration with poet Philip Casey)
1987 Newcastle Arts Building, Down
1987 Grafton Gallery, Dublin
1984 Sligo Art Gallery, Yeats Memorial Building, Sligo
1983 Grafton Gallery, Dublin
1981 Lincoln Gallery, Dublin
1979 Lad Lane Gallery, Dublin
1977 Lad Lane Gallery, Dublin
1975 Lantern Theatre, Dublin
1975 Setanta Gallery, Dublin
AWARDS
2006 Liam Walsh Award, Mayo
2002 James Adam Salesroom Award, Dublin (Painting)
2000 Keating McLoughlin Medal + ESB Award, RHA, Dublin (Painting)
1999 Fergus O’Ryan Memorial Award, RHA, Dublin (Painting)
1998/91 Arts Council, Dublin, Artflight Grant
1989 Arts Council, Dublin, Material Grant
1988 Claremorris Open Award, Mayo (Painting)
1983 Maurice McGonigle Award, Oireachtas, Dublin (Painting)
COLLECTIONS (Selection)
GPA; Dublin City University; Jury’s Hotels; Contemporary Irish Art Society; Phillips; Church & General; Irish Life; A. Anderson & Co; Boyle Civic Collection; AIB; Sterling Pharmaceuticals, Waterford; OPW; BASF; Cothu; National Treasury Management Agency; Aer Rianta Management; Department of the Marine; Department of Agriculture Mayo; The Four Courts; Mayo County Council; KPMG; ESB; Intel; National Self-Portrait Collection; University of Limerick; Irish and International private collections.
COMMISSIONS (Selection)
Hotel Imperial, Dundalk (stained glass panels); Bruss GmbH, Sligo (painting); Ballymascanlon House Hotel, Dundalk (Irish writers portraits); The Great Book of Ireland published by Poetry Ireland, Dublin (Theo Dorgan and Gene Lambert, editors, drawing); Aer Rianta, Dublin (Anna Livia theme, painting); Daly’s Hotel, Castlebar, Mayo (James Daly portrait); Private.
GROUP SHOWS (Selection)
2008 From Landscape, The Paul Kane Gallery Dublin
2005/04/00/94/93/92 Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon
2001-present Robin Mullan Gallery, Belfast
1990-present Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, annual exhibitions and banquet shows
1999-2001 The Elemental Spirit, Mayo, Cork, Scotland, England
2000 Colori e paesaggio irlandesi, Roma, Complesso Del Vittoriano, Roma, Italy
1998/95/91 Vanguard Gallery, Macroom, Cork
1998/97/94/92 Gateway to Art, Aer Rianta Arts Festival, Dublin
1997/96/95 The Famine, Dublin, Limerick, Claremorris, Boston
1996/95/93 George Moore Festival, Claremorris, Mayo
1995-75 Independent Artists; Oireachtas, Figurative Image; EVA; Claremorris Open
1995/94 Island Trust, touring Ireland exhibition
1994 EIGSE, Carlow (invited)
1993 Eurothreshold, Irish Art, Cork
1993/92/91/90 Iontas, Small Works, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo
1992 Living Landscape, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Cork; Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo; Guinness Hop Store, Dublin
1992 Balance/Imbalance (with poet Brendan Kennelly), Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1991 ICE at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
1989 WAAG Show, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1987/78 SADE, Municipal Gallery, Cork
1985 The Artist and the Bomb, Ireland and Russia
1984 Festival Celtique, Lorient, France
1978 Women’s Show, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
1975 Creative Women, Arts Council of Northern Ireland,
Belfast
DOCUMENTATION (Selection)
1979-present Irish Times, In Dublin Magazine, Sunday Tribune, reviews by art critic Aidan Dunne
2002 Irish Arts Review Yearbook, Dublin
2001 Chicago Tribune, USA, interview
1998 Meeting V. Bolya (television documentary), NDR Television, Hamburg, Germany
1997 Island Musician Going Home, by Paul Durcan (poem after V. Bolay)
1996/75 Introspect arts magazine, arts review, Dublin
1995 Essay for Banquet Show, RHA, by Alexandra Wejchert (sculptor)
1995 Arts West Magazine, interview by editor/art critic Ian Wieczorek
1994 Catalogue Essay (Rubicon Gallery Show) by art critic Brian Fallon (Irish Times)
1990 London Arts Review Yearbook by art critic Aidan Dunne
1989 Five Artists in the West of Ireland, telelvision documentary by NDR/ARD (Munich/Hamburg, Germany)
1988 Lecture on the relationship of Poetry and Painting, Edna Longley, Queens University, Belfast and Canada
1988 The Haycarrier, by Paul Durcan (Poem after V. Bolay)
1987 Irish Women Artists, published by National Gallery/Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
1987 Die Horen (Edit.151) Hanover, Germany
1987 Catalogue Essay (Grafton Gallery Show), by poet Brian Lynch, Dublin
1984 Brigitte magazine, Women Painter Series by Dr. G. Sello
1983 Irish Times, interview by Una Lehane
2006 Aosdana – Member |
