Pallas Projects/Studios Gala Auction of Contemporary Irish Art Thursday 9th of October

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subsequently been screened in Ireland, UK, Latvia, USA and shown
on television in Ireland and New Zealand. The work was subject to a
three page article in the Guardian/Observer newspaper following the
London premier in the Curzon Cinema, Mayfair.
In 2015 he will present new work in a one-person show with the
Fergius McCaffrey gallery in Chelsea, New York.
Brian Maguire has been printing Lithographs with the Champfluerie
studio in Paris since 1988. This work is a representation of the failed
Anglo Irish Bank headquaters on the river Liffey. The artist sees it
as the construction of a contemporary ruin which is a metaphor for
what greed and lack of oversight brought to the Irish economy with
disasterous consequencies for most of the population.
Colin Martin lives and works in Dublin. He is a graduate of dit 1994 and
ncad 2010. Recent exhibitions include Collection, City Assembly
House, Dublin, 2013; The Garden, Broadcast Gallery, Dublin, 2012;
and Cyclorama, Basic Space, Dublin, 2011. He is the recipient of the
Arts Council Bursary, Thomas Dammann Award and Hennessy Craig
Scholarship.
Nick Miller (London, 1962) addresses portraiture, nature and human
encounter through painting, drawing and film. He was elected to
Aosdána in 2001. Based in Ireland since 1984, he currently lives and works
in Co Sligo. Miller has exhibited widely in Ireland and internationally
including solo museum exhibitions and projects at: The Irish Museum
of Modern Art; the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; The Butler
Gallery, Kilkenny; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; New York Studio
School, usa; Limerick City Gallery; and The cac, Concord, ma, usa. He
is represented in Ireland by Rubicon Gallery Dublin.
Robert Ballagh was born in Dublin in 1943. He studied architecture and
worked for a time as a professional musician, a postman and an
engineering draughtsman. He has been painting on a full time basis
since his first exhibition in Dublin in 1969. Ballagh’s work as a painter
is represented in many important collections including the National
Gallery of Ireland, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Crawford
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