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Shane Keisuke Berkery (born 9 April 1992) is an Irish-Japanese contemporary artist based in Dublin, Ireland. His cultural background has been a major influence on his work and is a frequent theme in his paintings. [1] Berkery primarily works out of his studio in Dublin.
Berkery experienced controversy in 2015 when he submitted a nude of the college director for the graduation exhibition at National College of Art and Design in protest of how the college was being run. The painting was later withdrawn. [2] [3] [4]
In 2013, singer Sinead O' Connor commissioned Berkery to paint a mural of Hindu god Vishnu in her home in Bray, Ireland. O' Connor originally planned to use Berkery's image for the cover of her album in summer 2014, titled The Vishnu Room [5] but the album was later retitled, without reference to Vishnu.[ citation needed ]
Declan McGonagle is a well-known figure in Irish contemporary art, holding positions as director at the Orchard Gallery in Derry, the first director at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and as director of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. He writes, lectures and publishes regularly on art and museum/gallery policy issues, and curates exhibitions.
Seán Keating was an Irish romantic-realist painter who painted some iconic images of the Irish War of Independence and of the early industrialization of Ireland. He spent two weeks or so each year during the late summer on the Aran Islands and his many portraits of island people depicted them as rugged heroic figures.
The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) is Ireland's oldest art institution, offering the largest range of art and design degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the country. Originating as a drawing school in 1746, many of the most important Irish artists, designers and art educators have studied or taught in the college. NCAD has always been located in central Dublin, and in 1980 it relocated to the historic Liberties area. The College has around 950 full-time students and a further 600 pursuing part-time courses, and NCAD's students come from more than forty countries. NCAD is a Recognised College of University College Dublin. It is also a member of the European League of Institutes of the Arts.
Owen Walsh (1933–2002) was an Irish painter and graphic designer.
Patrick Hickey was an Irish printmaker, painter, artist and architect who founded the Graphic Studio Dublin in 1960.
Patrick Tuohy was an Irish portrait, narrative, and genre painter.
Water Colour Society of Ireland (WCSI) is a watercolour society in Ireland, founded in 1870. The Society held its first exhibition in the Courthouse, Lismore, County Waterford in May 1871.
Patrick Anthony Hennessy RHA was an Irish realist painter. He was known for his highly finished still lifes, landscapes and trompe l'oeil paintings. The hallmark of his style was his carefully observed realism and his highly finished surfaces, the result of a virtuoso painting technique. He was brought up in Arbroath by his mother and step-father, his father having been killed during World War One. He attended Dundee School of Art where he met his lifelong companion, the painter Henry (Harry) Robertson Craig. Two of his paintings were accepted in 1939 at the Royal Scottish Academy for their Annual Exhibition. For the next 29 years he lived in Ireland with extended trips abroad. He was elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1949. The Hendriks Gallery in Dublin and the Guildhall Galleries in Chicago were the main outlets for his work. In the late 1960s he moved permanently to Tangier and then, after suffering ill health, to the Algarve. He died in London.
Niall McCormack is an Irish painter. Since the 1980s, he exhibited in England, Italy, France, Sweden, the US, and Ireland.
The Molesworth Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Dublin.
Lilian Davidson ARHA was an Irish landscape and portrait artist, teacher and writer.
Hilda RobertsHRHA was an Irish portrait artist.
Charles Tyrrell is an Irish painter and printmaker born in Trim, County Meath in 1950. Tyrrell graduated from NCAD in 1974. In 1984 Tyrell moved to Allihies on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork where he lives and works.
Carey Clarke is an Irish academic figurative painter, known for his landscapes, interiors, still lifes and portraits.
Philip and Barry Castle were British and Irish artists. They are considered a pair, as they are in the National Irish Visual Arts Library catalogue, as they worked and exhibited together and shared a painting technique that Philip taught Barry, which concentrated on making the colour look luminous. The Irish Times said of their partnership that "As husband and wife they have lived together a long time, but their artistic partnership spans almost as many years." They use the quattrocento style, building up the painting layer by layer.
Vera Klute ARHA is a contemporary artist based in Ireland since 2001.
Diana CopperwhiteRHA is an Irish painter. She is a member of Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists.
Eamon ColmanRHA is an Irish painter. He is a member of Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists.
Barbara WarrenRHA was an Irish painter. She was a member of Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists.
Salvatore of Lucan is an Irish artist from Lucan, the eponymous suburb of Dublin. The artist primarily paints large-scale works most of which focus on his own life and often explore themes of home, identity and relationships. The Irish Museum of Modern Art classified his work as "expansive domestic scenes where realism meets the uncanny, and the familiar broaches the magical."