Aleana Egan (born 1979
) is an Irish sculptor.
Career
Egan was born in
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 c ...
in 1979.
Having attended
Senior College
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,
Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown she went on to graduate with a
BA (Hons) in Fine Art and Painting from
Glasgow School of Art
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA; gd, Sgoil-ealain Ghlaschu) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture, fine art, an ...
in 2003. Egan was based in
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 c ...
.
Works/Exhibitions
* 'Shapes from Life' – 2015 –
Douglas Hyde Gallery
The Douglas Hyde Gallery is a publicly funded contemporary art gallery situated within the historical setting of Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
When the Gallery opened in 1978, it was for a number of years Ireland's only public gallery of ...
,
Trinity College Trinity College may refer to:
Australia
* Trinity Anglican College, an Anglican coeducational primary and secondary school in , New South Wales
* Trinity Catholic College, Auburn, a coeducational school in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney, New ...
, Dublin
* Piece for "two birds/one stone" – 2016 –
Farmleigh
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Gallery,
Dublin
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* 2017 –
Konrad Fischer Galerie
The Galerie Konrad Fischer is a German contemporary art gallery. It was founded in 1967 by Dorothee and Konrad Fischer in Düsseldorf, in a disused alley in the center of the city. Its first exhibition presented the work of Carl Andre to European a ...
,
Berlin
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, Germany
* 'Pearl Blauvelt/Aleana Egan' – 2018 – Mary, Mary,
Glasgow
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, United Kingdom
* 'Bronze Loops' – 2018 –
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
* 2018
Merrion Square Park, Dublin
References
1979 births
Living people
21st-century Irish women artists
Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art
Irish women sculptors
Date of birth missing (living people)
People from Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown
Artists from Dublin (city)
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