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Recent group shows in which he has participated include: 184th rha
Annual Exhibition 2014; The Land of Tib and Tom, Rubicon Projects,
Irish Georgian Society, 2014; Transient Worlds, Ranelagh Arts Centre,
2014; Bagga Khan, curated by Susan Connolly and Caroline Patten,
ncad Project, 2013; and 40/40/40 celebrating 40 Irish artists from the
Office of Public Works managed State Art Collection, 2013.
Alison Pilkington
is currently completing a PhD in Fine Art Practice –
Painting at National College of Art and Design, Dublin. In 2012 she
was awarded a British Institution Award for painting at the Royal
Academy Summer Show, London. She was selected for the Marmite
Painting Prize, London (2012) and shortlisted for the Kurt Beers 100
Painters of Tomorrow publication (2013). She was 3rd winner at the
Artslant International Jurors Award in December 2013, and her work was
featured at the Aqua Art Fair in Miami 2013. Her painting The Visitor
(2012) has been added to the Priseman Contemporary British Painting
Collection, which is currently touring in the uk to Huddersfield and
Greenwich museums.
Exhibitions include: Trioka, three-person show, Hillsboro Fine Art,
Dublin, 2014; Things go Dark, group show, The Model, Sligo, 2014;
Malevolentos, Pallas Contemporary Projects Dublin, 2014; The Visitor,
The Drawing Project, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, 2012; One thing and
Another, Custom House Arts Centre Mayo, 2010; and Doppelganger,
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, 2007.
Pilkington's upcoming exhibitions are group shows @Britishpainting,
Ipswich Museum and Gallery, uk, in October 2014, and Contemporary
British Painting, Marylebone Crypt gallery, London, in December 2014.
Describing her recent work, Pilkington writes: "The uncanny is
associated with a feeling of disorientation, mild panic or confusion
when faced with something strangely familiar and has been a frequent
subject of the visual arts and literature. In my recent body of work I am
exploring how strangely familiar yet comic images have the potential
to disturb or disorientate. I focus on how imagery interacts with the
intrinsic qualities of paint, how the paint material moves and how it
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