Michael Farrell - La Recontre, 1982
Joycesight is a collection of works organised by The George Moore Society, who accepted the invitation from Rome to coincide with the XVI International Joyce Symposium at the University of Rome in June 1998.
In the catalogue Dr. Carlo Mazzantini states ; 'Joycesight embraces almost all the currents and inspiration of modern art in Ireland. From Louis le Brocquy who because of his vast experience and his worldwide fame doesn't need any introduction, artists like Barry Cooke, Camille Souter and Brian Bourke who have been strongly influenced by the Irish landscape and who have expressed this influence through different techniques and forms, we come to a painter such as Micheal Farrell who followed in Joyce's footsteps and lived for many years in Paris drawing inspiration from his imaginary fellowship with the writer. Anne Donnelly has lived and worked abroad much of her life and notwithstanding her diverse cultural experiences, the memory of the light and colour of her native land has not faded. Brian King, who is a sculptor, is also an exponent of the Land Art while Conor Fallon is a master of the steel medium'.
Michael Farrell - La Recontre, 1982
Born in Dublin, 1936. After studying at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin he later moved to to London to further his studies. Bourke has worked in many countries including Bavaria, Switzerland and France.
In 1988 a retrospective exhibition of his work, '25 Years', was part of the Galway Arts Festival and this was later mounted at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin.
Bourke has represented Ireland abroad on many occasions including the Paris Biennale in 1965 and the Lugano exhibition in London in 1980. A year later he took part in the second Biennale of European Art at Birmingham, Alabama, and in 1986 was included in an exhibition of Irish artists at Beverly Hills, California. His work has been critically acclaimed and is the subject of numerous monographs. An RTE television programme was produced on Brian's work in 1988. He is a member of Aosdána and lives and works in the west of Ireland.Born in England in 1931. Settled in Ireland in 1954, first in Co. Clare, then in Co. Kilkenny before moving to Sligo in 1992.
His solo exhibitions have been at the Hendricks Gallery and at the Kerlin Gallery in Dublin. On many occasions he has represented Ireland at exhibitions abroad; 1963 Paris Biennale; ROSC 1984; Division Cross Roads, USA, 1986; 12 Stars, European Parliament Collection 1992; Poetic Land - Political Territory, England, Scotland, Wales, 1994 - 95. Three retrospective exhibitions have been compiled of his work ; Douglas Hyde Gallery, TCD, 1986; Haags Gemeentemuseum 1992; L.A.C. Perpignan, France 1995.
Cooke has won numerous awards, including the Martin Toonder Award in 1987, and his work is in many private and public collections at home and abroad.
He has been a member of Aosdána since 1981.
Born in Belfast in 1932 and grew up in Co. Carlow. Studied at the College of Art in Dublin, Escuala de Bellas Artes in Madrid and the Ecole Julienne in Paris.
She travelled and worked for many years, with her husband Carlo Mazzantini, in France, Spain and Morocco before returning to Ireland in 1961. They later returned to Italy and took up residence next to the ruins of the Emperor Hadrian's villa outside Rome.
Anne Donnelly has been exhibiting since the fifties and her solo exhibitions include Grafton Gallery, Dublin, 1956 and Galleria Il Porto, Rome, 1966. Throughout the 70's and 80's she held various solo exhibitions at the Galleria La Margherita, Rome and participated in a number of group exhibitions.
A member of DUNA, which is a section of the International Association of Women Artists, her works can be found in collections in Ireland, Italy, France and the USA amongst others.
Son of the poet Padraic Fallon, Conor Fallon was born in 1939 in Dublin. Studied at St. Peters College in Wexford, he later attended TCD where he first began to paint. He moved to Cornwall, which by then had become the home of the painter Tony O Malley, who always had a strong influence on Fallon. Joined the St. Ives group of artists in Cornwall where he lived until 1972.
It was under the guidance of Denis Mitchell that Fallon moved to carving and he held his first exhibition in 1972, in Nanly Orion. His most important solo exhibitions to date have been; Emmet Gallery, Dublin 1975-76; Taylor Galleries Dublin 1983, 1990, 1993; Ballinglen Arts Fellows at Art Alliance, Philadelphia 1994; Theo Waddington Fine Art, Canada.
In 1968 Fallon was elected to the Nelwyn Society of Arts, while in 1980 he received the Oireachtas Gold Medal for Sculpture.
A member of Aosdána, he has been a fellow of the Royal Hibernian Academy since 1989 and was awarded an honorary ANCAD by the National College of Art and Design.
Born in Kells, Co. Meath in 1940, Micheal Farrell attended St. Martin's School of Art from 1956 to 1960 where he obtained his National Diploma in Drawing and Painting.
His awards include the MacAuley Fellowship in 1996 as well as the Biennale des Jeunes award in Paris. He has had solo exhibitions in the Armidal Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia; C.T.T., Brussels, 1987; Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, 1993. His collective exhibitions include World Fair, New York, 1965; Modern Art Exhibition, Florence, 1968; Triennale d'Inde, New Delhi, 1971; Forum de l'immobilier, Paris 1991. He held a retrospective (1953 - 1978) at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin in 1979.
Farrell was elected a member of Aosdána in 1987. Joyce has been a constant theme of his work since 1990.
He now lives in France.
Brian King was born in Dublin in 1942. He studied at the NCAD in Dublin from 1960 - 63. He has made his name as one of the most successful artists of land art. His first solo exhibition was held at the Dawson Gallery in 1968 and the following year he represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale.
The most noteworthy of the many exhibitions in which he has participated in are ; the Edinburgh Arts '78 Exhibition ; the Malou Park Exhibition in Brussels, 1978 ; the Bradford Print Biennale in 1981 and the RHA in Dublin in 1990 - 91. His works are in many public collections including the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin; Ulster Museum in Belfast; the Arts Council of Ireland and the University of Ulster. He has been sculptor in residence at the NCAD, Dublin and is a member of Aosdána.
Louis le Brocquy was born in Dublin in 1916. He left Ireland, and his grandfather's business, in 1938 to become a painter. Self - taught he studied paintings in museums in London, Paris, Venice and Geneva exhibiting in the Prado collection during the Spanish Civil War. returning to Dublin in 1940 he helped found the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1943. In 1946 he began his long association with Gimpel Fils and settled in London, where he worked for twelve years alongside such artists as Ben Nicholson, Graham Sutherland, Victor Pasmore, Lucien Freud and Francis Bacon.
Louis le Brocquy works are to be found in the most important museums and galleries of the world including Guggenheim Museum, New York; Etat Francais, Paris; Musé d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Musée Picasso, Antibes; Tate Gallery, London; Vatican Museums, Rome; Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
He lives and works in Ireland and France.
Born in Northampton in 1929, she moved to Ireland in 1932 and in the early 50's married actor Gordon Souter and travelled through Italy where she sold paintings in Milan and Rome. She generally paints landscapes. A number of her significant works have been done as a result of her experiences as an amateur pilot. Among her paintings are still lives, a series painted in mines, a study of slaughter houses and dead meat, as well as war pictures.
Among her more important achievements are The Landscape Prize, Oireachtas, 1964, 1965; The Gainey Award 1975, shared with Patrick Collins; Grand Prix International d'Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo, 1977. Her works are in numerous collections all over the world as well as the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin; Ulster Museum, Belfast; Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork and the Arts Council in Dublin.
She now lives on Achill Island.
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