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List Of Northern Irish Artists
This is a list of notable artists born in Northern Ireland. __NOTOC__ A * Arthur Armstrong (1924–1996) *Array Collective (active 2016–present) –Northern Irish collective of artists and activists who won the 2021 Turner Prize B * James Bingham (1925–2009) * Basil Blackshaw (1932–2016) * Bogside Artists * Alicia Boyle (1908–1997) * Terry Bradley (1965–) * Muriel Brandt (1909–1981) * Deborah Brown (1927– ) * John Byrne C *Joseph W. Carey (1859–1937) * Thomas Carr (1909–1999) * W. H. Conn (1895–1973) *William Conor (1881–1968) * William A. Coulter (1849–1936) *James Humbert Craig (1877–1944) D * Colin Davidson (1968– ) * Gerard Dillon (1916–1971) *Willie Doherty (1959– ) * Keith Drury (artist) (1964– ) * Rita Duffy (1959– ) E * Brendan Ellis (1951- ) F * T P Flanagan (1929–2011) * Hugh Frazer (1795–1865) *Rowel Friers (1920–1998) G * William St. John Glenn "Bill Glenn" (1904–1974) * William Crampton Gore (1871–1946) H * Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARTIST
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (although less often for actors). "Artiste" (French for artist) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. Use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like used in criticism. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older broad meanings of the term "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts. * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry. * A follower of a pursuit in which skill comes by study or practice. * A follower of a manual art, such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Davidson (artist)
Colin Davidson (born 1968) is a Northern Irish visual artist, living and working near Belfast, Northern Ireland. An artist who works in themes, his recent large-scale head paintings have been exhibited worldwide. Education Davidson was born in Belfast in 1968 and attended Methodist College Belfast between 1980 and 1987. He graduated from the University of Ulster in 1991 with a first class honours degree in design. He worked in the field of design for print until 1999 when he started to paint full-time. Davidson is an academician of the Royal Ulster Academy and served as president of the Royal Ulster Academy between 2012 and 2015. Early work Davidson started to paint Belfast in his teens, and this theme came to the fore in 2004 when his exhibition ''No Continuing City'' was mounted at the Tom Caldwell Gallery. The exhibition included large paintings of Belfast as seen from high view-points. The urban theme continued between 2006 and 2010 when Davidson made paintings based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Henderson
Jeremy Henderson was an Anglo-Irish artist and painter. Henderson was Artist in Residence at Kingston University, with art exhibited at the Royal Academy and National Art Collections. Life Jeremy Henderson was born at Lisbellaw, County Fermanagh, on 25 December 1952, to James Douglas Alexander Henderson, who managed the family business of Henderson & Eadie, and Doris Josephine née Watson. He attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, where the art master, Angus Bryson, spotted Henderson as an exceptional student. From 1972 to 1973 Henderson studied an Arts Foundation course at Ulster University. From 1973 to 1976 he studied Fine art at Kingston University, London, achieving a Bachelor of Arts first class honours degree under the tutelage of Terry Jones, returning in 1977 as Artist in Residence. In the same year he became the first recipient of the Stanley Picker Fellowship Award in Painting. Between 1978 and 1979 Henderson completed a MA postgraduate in Fine Art at Chelse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Harron
Maurice Harron (born 1946) is a sculptor from Derry, Northern Ireland. Harron was educated at St Columb's College. At the Ulster College of Art and Design in Belfast, he studied sculpture. Much of his work is public art sculpture and he has works sited in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland. His commissions include '' Reconciliation/Hands Across the Divide'' in Carlisle Square, Derry, overlooking the Craigavon Bridge crossing the River Foyle. His work ''Let the Dance Begin'', dating from 2000, is sited near the Lifford Bridge in Strabane, County Tyrone and was commissioned by the Strabane Lifford Development Commission. It features 5 semi-abstract figures, a fiddler, a flautist, a drummer and two dancers, each 4 metres high and is made of stainless steel, bronze and ceramic tile mosaic. '' The Workers'' is a monument made from stainless steel and stone and is located at The Dry Arch Roundabout in Letterkenny. The monument was created in 2001 and commemorates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Cecilia Harrison
Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863–1941) was an Irish artist and the first woman to serve on Dublin City Council. Life Early life and education Harrison, who went by the name Cecilia, was born to an affluent family in Holywood, County Down. She was the great grand-niece of United Irishman and industrialist Henry Joy McCracken and the social reformer and anti-slavery campaigner Mary Ann McCracken. At the age of ten her father died and she and her family relocated to London. Harrison attended school in Queens College in London where she was awarded a silver medal by University College, London, for painting from the antique. She studied under Alphonse Legros at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1878 to 1885 and won the Slade scholarship. She travelled widely on the continent as part of her studies including Paris, Italy and Amsterdam. Career In 1889 Harrison moved to Dublin and established herself as one of Ireland's foremost portrait artists. She submitted 60 paintings to the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siobhán Hapaska
Siobhán Hapaska (born 1963) is an Irish sculptor. Early life and education Hapaska was born in Belfast and studied art at Middlesex Polytechnic from 1985 to 1988 before completing a master's degree at Goldsmiths College in 1992. In 1993 she won a Barclays Young Artist Award and had her first solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London during 1995 and 1996. Work Hapaska works with a variety of synthetic and natural materials, and often incorporates sound and light elements into her work. Her sculptures range in form from completely abstracted to hyperrealistic. References Further reading *"Hapaska, Siobhán." In Grove Art Online. (Oxford Art Online, accessed 30 March 2013).Artist Biography for Siobhán Hapaskain the Tate Modern Tate Modern is an art gallery located in London. It houses the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Crampton Gore
William Crampton Gore RHA (1871–1946) was an Irish painter. The son of an army officer from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Gore studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 1897 and practising until 1901. An intervening period of some months in 1898 was spent studying art under Henry Tonks at the Slade School of Art, giving him a taste for life as a professional painter. After a stint abroad, during which he worked as a ship's surgeon on sailings to North America, India and Italy, he returned to London and the Slade, studying there from 1900 until 1904. Whilst there he befriended Sir William Orpen and Augustus John, sharing a studio with the latter. In 1905 he first exhibited with the RHA and from then until 1939 he contributed over a hundred works to their annual shows. In 1916 he was elected an Associate member of the RHA and in 1918 he was made a full member. His works were mainly interiors and still-lives in oils. Flower painting in particular attracted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William St
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowel Friers
Rowel Boyd Friers ''MBE'' ''PPRUA'' (13 April 1920 -21 September 1998) was a cartoonist, illustrator, painter and lithographer. Early life and career Friers grew up in the Lagan Village area of Belfast near the Ravenhill Road. He was apprenticed to the Belfast lithographic firm S. C. Allen and Co, and studied at the Belfast College of Art from 1935 to 1942. He began publishing his cartoons in the 1940s. He began concentrating on political cartooning with the advent of The Troubles in the late 1960s. His work appeared in ''Punch'', the '' Radio Times'', ''London Opinion'', the '' Daily Express'', the '' Sunday Independent'', '' Dublin Opinion'', ''the Northern Whig'', ''the News Letter, the ''Irish Times'' and the '' Belfast Telegraph''. Aside from cartooning, Friers was a leading figure in the Ulster Watercolour Society, and his oil paintings hang in the National Portrait Gallery, the gallery of the Ulster Museum, and many other collections. He illustrated more than 30 bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Frazer (artist)
Hugh Frazer (1795–1865) was an Irish landscape and genre painter. Frazer was born in Dromore, County Down, enrolled in the Dublin Society in 1812 and exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1826 through 1864. Granted membership at the RHA in 1837, he was a professor there from 1839 to 1853. Frazer was also President of the Association of Artists, which was founded in Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdo ... in . Isaacs Art Center. Retrieved April 18, 2011. References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan Ellis
Brendan Ellis (born 1951) is an Irish artist and teacher based in Belfast. Education Ellis studied at St Mary's Grammar School and the Ulster Polytechnic (now Ulster University). He moved to London in 1974 and he gained his master's degree at the Royal College of Art in 1977. As part of his studies there, he won the John Minton Drawing Prize. Early career In the late 1970s, he worked as a teacher, as well as being a clerical officer and mural painter for the Civil Service. In 1979 he became a medical artist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. From 1987 he was shop steward for the Confederation of Health Service Employees at the hospital. Artwork His artistic work includes the Stations of the Cross for St Columba's Roman Catholic Church, Annan, Dumfriesshire (1984), commissions for churches in England, from 1990 and a commissioned self-portrait for the National Collection, Limerick in 1992. His work focuses on aspects of the troubles in Northern Ireland, depicting stylized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Duffy
Rita Duffy (born 1959) is a Northern Ireland artist, described in 2005 as the province's "foremost artist". She describes herself as a Republican, pacifist and feminist. Her installations and projects often highlight socio-political issues and some of her work is in the permanent collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Imperial War Museum in London. Background Rita Duffy was born in Belfast in 1959 to a Catholic family and grew up during the Troubles of the 1970s, in the Protestant neighbourhood of Stranmillis, Belfast. When at college she preferred socially engaged, figurative painting and, during her holidays, she lived in New York City drawing street portraits. Work Duffy describes herself as a Republican, a nationalist, a pacifist and a feminist. She uses irony, wit and humour to interrogate Irish history and politics. Her work is also influenced by surrealism and magic realism. In 2005, Duffy came to wider attention for her proposal to tow an iceberg from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
