Louis le BrocquyHRHA was an Irish painter born in Dublin to Albert and Sybil le Brocquy. Louis' sister is the sculptor Melanie Le Brocquy. His work received many accolades in a career that spanned some seventy years of creative practice. In 1956, he represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale, winning the Premio Acquisito Internationale with A Family, subsequently included in the historic exhibition Fifty Years of Modern Art Brussels, World Fair 1958. The same year he married the Irish painter Anne Madden and left London to work in the French Midi.
Edward Delaney was an Irish sculptor born in Claremorris in County Mayo in 1930. His best known works include the 1967 statue of Wolfe Tone and famine memorial at the northeastern corner of St Stephen's Green in Dublin and the statue of Thomas Davis in College Green, opposite Trinity College Dublin. These are both examples of lost-wax bronze castings, his main technique during the 1960s and early 1970s.
The Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts (RHA) is an artist-based and artist-oriented institution in Ireland, founded in Dublin in 1823. Like many other Irish institutions, such as the Royal Irish Academy, the academy retained the word "Royal" after most of Ireland became independent as the Irish Free State in December 1922.
The Arts Council is the independent "Irish government agency for developing the arts."
Alice Maher is a contemporary Irish artist working in a variety of media, including sculpture, photography and installation.
Guggi is an Irish artist, painter and sculptor, once a member of the post-punk band Virgin Prunes alongside his close friend Gavin Friday.
William Crozier was an Irish-Scots still-life and landscape artist based in Hampshire, England and West Cork in Ireland. He was a member of Aosdána.
Eva Rothschild RA is an Irish artist based in London.
Samuel Walsh is an Irish abstract artist. He is a member of Aosdána, founder of the National Collection of Contemporary Drawing and is closely associated with the beginnings of EVA International. Born in London in 1951 to Irish parents, he moved to Limerick, Ireland in 1968, where he resided until 1990. He now lives and works in Co. Clare.
Elizabeth Magill is an Irish painter. She studied at the Belfast College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art, and now lives and works in London.
Declan Long is an Irish art critic and lecturer specialising in contemporary art made in ‘Post-Troubles’ Northern Ireland.
Mary FitzGerald is an Irish artist. She lives and works in Dublin and County Waterford. After graduating from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 1977, she moved to Japan where she lived and exhibited between 1979 and 1981. FitzGerald has held numerous solo exhibitions in Ireland, Europe and the United States and has participated in group exhibitions worldwide. She has represented Ireland at ROSC, L'Imaginaire Irlandais and the XVIII Bienal de Sao Paulo.
Mark Francis is a Northern Irish painter living and working in London, England.
(Frederick) George Campbell was an Irish artist and writer. Though he grew up in Belfast, Campbell spent much of his adult life living and painting in Spain and Dublin, Ireland.
Stephen McKenna was a British-born visual artist known for his postmodern figurative paintings. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1986. His works can be seen in the collections of the Tate Galleries, the British Council, the Imperial War Museum, London, and has been shown at various galleries including the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. He was a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy.
William McKeown was a Northern Irish painter, watercolourist, and draughtsman.
Saddle is a 1993 surrealist sculpture by Irish artist Dorothy Cross. It is in the collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art having been acquired in 1994. It is created by the combination of found objects - specifically a metal frame, a horse's saddle and an upturned cow's udder. Virgin's Shroud, another work by Cross from 1993, also features cow's udders and is in the collection of the Tate.
It was perhaps no surprise to soon come upon the Freudian play of Dorothy Cross’ Saddle...There is something doubly unsettling about udders. On the one hand they remind me of large elongated nipples, which they are, and on the other they have a resemblance of a small thick penis. The Saddle also has a reference to the arse and so, all in all, the piece has a fascinating desire to confuse and unsettle, to engage and perturb.
Jaki Irvine is an Irish contemporary visual artist, specialising in music and video installations, and a novelist. Elected to Ireland's national affiliation of artists, Aosdána, she has represented the country at the 1997 Venice Biennale. She divides her time between Dublin and Mexico City.
Dermot SeymourRUA (b.1956) is a Northern Irish painter, an elected member of Aosdána and an Academician of the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts. His work explores a variety of themes relating to conflict, symbolism and identity in Northern Ireland.
John Shinnors is an Irish landscape artist whose work has become increasingly abstract over time. He is a member of Aosdána and sits as the visual arts representative on EV+A.
