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Richard Gorman rha
was born in Dublin. He studied at Trinity College
Dublin, ncea and Dun Laoghaire School of Art fromwhere he graduated
in Fine Art in 1980. In 1984 he moved to Paris to study lithography and
etching at the Atelier Champfleur. He now divides his time between
Milan and Dublin. Gorman has exhibited widely and regularly since the
mid-1980s, especially in Dublin, London, Milan and Tokyo. Frequent and
extended visits to Japan have notably influenced his working methods
and materials, most memorably in a series of highly successful large-
scale works executed on handmade washi paper that he produced
in western Japan in 1999.
Recent solo exhibitions have taken place in Kite, Graphic Studio
Gallery, Dublin, 2007; Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, 2013; rha, Dublin, 2013.
While Gorman has participated in group exhibitions shown in Galleria
Maurizio Corraini, Mantova, 2002; Yanagisawa Gallery Tokyo at Graphic
Studio Gallery, Dublin, 2004; Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin, 2013; rha,
Dublin, 2014.
Gillian Lawler
was born in Kildare in 1977 and currently lives in Dublin. She
received a ba in Fine Art from ncad 2000. She has won numerous
awards including the Hennessey Craig Award, rha Gallery Annual
exhibition in 2007, the Whytes Award, rha Gallagher Gallery in 2007
and the overall winner of the Open Selection Exhibition Award at
the Eigse Arts Festival in 2009. Other awards include a Kildare Arts
Services Award 2013/2011/2009, an Arts Council Bursary Award 2009,
and Culture Ireland Award 2011. She was shortlisted for the Beers
Lambert Contemporary, Thames and Hudson publication, 100 Painters
of Tomorrow in 2013, the Celeste International Art Prize in 2012 and a
Merit prize from the Golden Fleece Award in 2013.
She has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland and abroad
including solo shows at Galway Arts Centre, 2014; the Fenderesky
Gallery 2007/2010; The Dock, 2009; This is not a shop, Dublin 2009,
and Draiocht Arts Centre, 2007. Group shows include, Just mad Art Fair
Madrid, curated by Jim Ricks, 2014, Lacuna [02], Taylor Gallery, curated
by David Quinn and Sabina McMahon, 2014; Difference Engine, Limerick
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