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List Of Members Of Aosdána
This is a list of current and former members of Aosdána, an association of artists whose work is deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to the creative arts in Ireland. Details of membership Membership of Aosdána is based on a system of peer nomination and election and is limited to a maximum of 250 living artists who must be resident in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland for five years, although there exist exceptions where artists resident outside of Ireland are eligible "if the body of their work is deemed to significantly benefit the arts in Ireland". Saoi Members of Aosdána may be elected by other members to receive the honour of Saoi for singular and sustained distinction in the arts. Not more than seven members can hold this honour at any one time. Members References {{DEFAULTSORT:Aosdana ! Aosdána Aosdána ( , ; from , 'people of the arts') is an Irish association of artists. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aosdána
Aosdána ( , ; from , 'people of the arts') is an Irish association of artists. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers with support from the country's Arts Council. Membership, which is by invitation from current members, is limited to 250 individuals; before 2005 it was limited to 200. Its governing body is called the Toscaireacht. Formation Aosdána was originally set up on the suggestion of writer Anthony Cronin, by ''Taoiseach'' Charles Haughey, well known for his support for the Arts, although Fintan O'Toole has argued that this also served to deflect criticism of Haughey's political actions. Membership The process of induction relies entirely on members proposing new members. Applications by artists themselves are not allowed. Cnuas Some members of Aosdána receive a stipend, called the ''Cnuas'' (, ; a gift of financial aid put aside for the purpose of support), from the Arts Council of Ireland. This stipend is intended to allow recipients to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Behan (sculptor)
John Behan (born 1938) is an Irish sculptor from Dublin. He studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, and Ealing Art College, London, and Oslo's Royal Academy School. He is a member of Aosdána. He helped establish the Project Arts Centre, Dublin in 1967 and the Dublin Art Foundry. Notable sculptures include ''Arrival'', commissioned by the Irish Government and presented to the United Nations in 2000 and ''Wings of the World'' in Shenzhen Shenzhen (; ; ; ), also historically known as Sham Chun, is a major sub-provincial city and one of the special economic zones of China. The city is located on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern province ..., China, 1991. In the mid 1990s Behan was commissioned by the Irish Government to create a National Famine Memorial that would encompass the magnitude of the suffering and loss endured by the people of Ireland during this period. The memorial located in Murrisk, County Mayo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fergus Bourke
Fergus Ignatius Bourke (31 July 1934 – 8 October 2004) was an Irish photographer. He was a member of Aosdána, an association of Irish artists. Early life Bourke was born in Bray in 1934 to Eileen (Eibhlín) Bourke (née Somers) and Thomas Bourke (Tómas de Búrca), who was related to Brendan Behan, Kathleen Behan and Peadar Kearney. His younger brother Brian Bourke was a noted painter. Fergus spent some of his childhood in County Wexford, then attended Presentation College Bray. After that he worked a variety of jobs, and was a stuntman in the film ''King of Kings'' (1961), filmed in Spain where Bourke was working as an English teacher. Career On returning to Dublin, Bourke was at a party and picked up a copy Henri Cartier-Bresson's ''The Decisive Moment'' (''Images à la sauvette''), which caused him to develop an interest in black-and-white photography. An exhibition at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin in 1968 led to his work becoming known in the US; the Museum of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Bourke
Eva Bourke (born 1946) is a German-born Irish poet. Biography Bourke was born in Germany but has lived for much of her life in Galway, Ireland. She studied German Literature and History of Art at the University of Munich. Towards the end of the seventies she moved with her husband Eoin Bourke and her three children to Galway in the West of Ireland, where Eoin held the position of professor of German Literature at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has lived in Galway since, where she also has taught at the university for many years. Since the nineties she and her husband have divided their time between Ireland and Berlin. Her daughter Miriam de Burca is an artist and film maker and one of her sons is Benjamin de Burca, member of the artist duo Wagner/de Burca. Bourke writes in English and has had seven collections of poetry published. Her translations of Irish poets into German appeared among others in the journals die horen, Akzente and in the anthology Grand Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Bourke
Brian Bourke (born 1936 in Dublin) is an Irish people, Irish artist. Life Bourke was born in Dublin in 1936. His parents were Thomas Bourke (Tómas de Búrca) and Eileen (Eibhlín) Bourke (née Somers). Bourke left school early and got a job in the art department of the Player Wills tobacco company on the condition he enrolled at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD). He later studied at Saint Martin's School of Art in London. After London, he spent time in Germany and was strongly influence by the New Objectivity, Neue Sachlichkeit art movement. He returned to Dublin in 1957 and held his first one-man show in Dublin in 1964 at the Dawson Gallery. He travelled across Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1965 Bourke won an Arts Council (Ireland), Arts Council prize for portraiture, and represented Ireland at the Biennale de Paris. He won the Munster and Leinster Bank competition in 1966, and first prize in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art competition in 1967. He was includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Boran
Pat Boran (born 1963) is an Irish poet. Biography Born in Portlaoise, Boran has lived in Dublin for a number of years. He is the publisher of the Dedalus Press which specialises in contemporary poetry from Ireland, and international poetry in English-language translation, and was until 2007 Programme Director of the annual Dublin Writers Festival. Currently he is the presenter of "The Poetry Programme", a weekly half-hour poetry programme on RTÉ Radio 1, where he has interviewed poets such as Tess Gallagher, Tony Curtis, John Haynes, Gerry Murphy and Jane Hirshfield. His poetry publications include ''The Unwound Clock'' (1990), ''History and Promise'' (1991), ''Familiar Things'' (1993), ''The Shape of Water'' (1996), ''As the Hand, the Glove'' (2001) and ''The Next Life'' (2012). His ''New and Selected Poems'' (2005), with an introduction by the Dennis O'Driscoll, was first published by Salt Publishing UK and was reissued in 2007 by Dedalus Press. ''Waveforms: Bull Island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dermot Bolger
Dermot Bolger (born 1959) is an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and editor from Dublin, Ireland. Born in the Finglas suburb of Dublin in 1959, his older sister is the writer June Considine. Bolger's novels include ''Night Shift'' (1982), ''The Woman's Daughter'' (1987), ''The Journey Home'' (1990), ''Father's Music'' (1997), ''Temptation'' (2000), ''The Valparaiso Voyage'' (2001) and ''The Family on Paradise Pier'' (2005). He is a member of the artist's association Aosdána. Career Bolger's early work – especially his first three novels, all set in the working class Dublin suburb of Finglas, and his trilogy of plays that chart forty years of life in the nearby high-rise Ballymun tower blocks that have since been demolished – was often concerned with the articulation of the experiences of working-class characters who, for various reasons, feel alienated from society. Later novels are more expansive in their themes and locations. Two novels, ''The Family on Paradise Pier'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bolger
David Bolger (born 1968) is an Irish choreographer, dancer and theatrical director. He is a member of Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists. Early life Bolger was born in Dublin in 1968 and grew up in Sandymount; he lived next to the singer Agnes Bernelle and actor Christopher Casson. His father was a haulage contractor. Career Bolger enrolled in Dublin City Ballet aged 16. He founded the dance company CoisCéim ( Irish: "footstep") in 1995. In 2001, he co-wrote and choreographed the film ''Hit and Run'', which won the Paula Citron Award for Choreography for the Camera at the Moving Pictures Festival, Toronto and the Jury Prize at the Dance on Camera Festival. He was nominated at the American Choreography Awards. Bolger was the choreographer for the film '' Dancing at Lughnasa'' (1998). He created ''A Dash of Colour'' for the opening ceremony of the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games. In 2007 he was elected to Aosdána. In 2011 he won an Ivey Award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronica Bolay
Veronica Bolay (8 August 1941 – 3 January 2020) was a German–Irish painter. She was a member of Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists. Early life Bolay was born in Hamburg in 1941. Her earliest memory was of Operation Gomorrah, the allied terror bombing of Hamburg. The family fled to Mecklenburg, then returned to Hamburg after hearing rumours that Mecklenburg would fall under Soviet control. Career Bolay attended the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg in 1958–63, studying painting and costume design, as fine art was not considered a profitable career path. She then studied group therapy at Aachen University. In 1971 she moved to Ireland, and was part of a 1978 exhibition of women artists held in the Project Gallery in Dublin. She was elected to the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2002 and to Aosdána in 2006. Her work was in the field of abstract landscapes, working in oils and pastels, and often depicting the West of Ireland. '' The Irish Times'' wrote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seóirse Bodley
Seóirse Bodley (first name pronounced ; born 4 April 1933) is an Irish composer and former associate professor of music at University College Dublin (UCD). He was the first composer to become a Saoi of Aosdána, in 2008. Bodley is widely regarded as one of the most important composers of twentieth-century art music in Ireland, having been "integral to Irish musical life since the second half of the twentieth century, not just as a composer, but also as a teacher, arranger, accompanist, adjudicator, broadcaster, and conductor". Biography Bodley was born George Pascal Bodley in Dublin. His father was George James Bodley (1879–1956), an employee of the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company (Dublin office), and later of the Ports and Docks Board. His mother, Mary (''née'' Gough, 1891–1977), worked for the Guinness brewery. He attended schools in the Dublin suburbs of Phibsboro and Glasnevin before he moved at the age of nine to an Irish-speaking Christian Brothers school at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Blackshaw
Basil Joseph Blackshaw ''HRUA, HRHA'' (July 1932 – 2 May 2016) was a Northern Irish artist specialising in animal paintings, portraits and landscapes and an Academician of the Royal Ulster Academy. Early life and education Born in Glengormley, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and brought up in Boardmills in Lisburn, County Down, he was the son of a professional horse trainer, Englishman Samson Blackshaw and Edith Clayton from Tyrone. Blackshaw attended Methodist College Belfast and studied at Belfast College of Art (1948–1951) under Romeo Toogood. In 1950 Blackshaw joined two of his fellow students, Michael Stewart and Esther Crolley, as winners of the annual competition for the most outstanding students of the year, in the forty-eighth annual exhibition of the Ulster Arts Club. In 1951 Blackshaw was awarded a scholarship to study in Paris by the Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts. For a number of years after his graduation Blackshaw taught part-time at the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathal Black
Cathal Black is an Irish film director, writer, and producer. Background Black was born in Dublin, Ireland and grew up in Phibsborough. His father worked at the Guinness Brewery. Black's mother died when he was around 9 or 10 years old. His father remarried and the family moved to Galway for a period before returning to Dublin. Black has a twin brother. Career Black was elected as a member of Aosdána in 2000. Filmography Director * 2018 - Five Red Roses - one for every syllable of your name * 2014 - Butterfly (TV Short) * 2007 - Learning Gravity (aka the Undertaking) * 1999 - Love & Rage * 1995 - Korea Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ... * 1984 - Pigs * 1981 - Our Boys (Short) * 1976 - Wheels (Short) Producer * 2018 - Five Red Roses - one for every syllable of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
