Born in Dublin in 1957, Joe Dunne is an artist based in Dublin, Ireland. After graduating from

NCAD 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 th ...

in 1978 he worked as a painter, illustrator and designer before focusing on painting. He is known principally for his portraits, landscapes and still life paintings, executed in a wide variety of media (oil,

tempera Tempera (), also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. Tempera also refers to the paintings done ...

and

watercolour Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

). He has received a number of awards, most recently a first prize in the inaugural Davy Portrait Awards 2008 and the AXA Insurance Drawing Prize in 2009. Commissions have included portraits of former Taoiseach

Éamon de Valera Éamon de Valera (, ; first registered as George de Valero; changed some time before 1901 to Edward de Valera; 14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was a prominent Irish statesman and political leader. He served several terms as head of governm ...

and President

Mary McAleese Mary Patricia McAleese ( ; ga, Máire Pádraigín Mhic Ghiolla Íosa; ; born 27 June 1951) is an Irish activist lawyer and former politician who served as the eighth president of Ireland from November 1997 to November 2011. She is an academic ...

. Joe Dunne is a member of the

Royal Hibernian Academy The Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) is an artist-based and artist-oriented institution in Ireland, founded in Dublin in 1823. Like many other Irish institutions, such as the RIA, the academy retained the word "Royal" after most of Ireland became in ...

References

External links

Joe Dunne's website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dunne, Joe Living people Irish portrait painters 20th-century Irish male artists 21st-century Irish male artists Contemporary painters Realist painters 1957 births