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can be played with. The paintings are carefully planned through several
stages of drawing. The quality of paint handling, although seemingly
casual, is a result of repeated attempts at getting something 'right'."
Nevan Lanhart
was born in Kilkenny, and currently lives in Dublin.
As part of a secondary schools' exhibition, he attended group shows at
the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, and Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, in 1988.
Sonia Shiel
was born and works in Dublin. She is a recipient of the Arts
Council's Project Award, and has recently completed the 2014 Art & Law
Program at Fordham Law School while participating in the International
Studio & Curatorial Program (iscp), in New York. She is currently an
artist in residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, where
she is preparing for several upcoming shows in Ireland (imma and the
Crawford Art Gallery), the us and Kosovo. She has had solo exhibitions
at The Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin; The Model, Sligo; Temple Bar
Gallery and Studios; Kulturbunker, Frankfurt; The Galway Arts Centre;
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny; four,
Dublin and The rha Gallery I and II, Dublin, among others.
Selected group shows include The Glucksman Gallery, Cork; imma,
Dublin; Rua Red, Dublin; The Glue Factory, Glasgow; The Douglas
Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Atelier, Frankfurt; and Temple Bar Gallery and
Studios, Dublin.
Forthcoming solo shows include the International Studio and
Curatorial Program, New York; flood, Dublin; Irish Museum of
Modern Art, arp, Dublin; The Art & Law Program, New York; The
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork; and Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin.
She has been the recipient of many awards including an Arts Council
Visual Artists Bursary Award; the Hennessy Craig Award from the rha;
The Tony O'Malley Award; and further residencies at Centre Culturel
Irlandais, Paris, hiap, Helsinki, and the tbg+s Frankfurt exchange
program. Her works are in many public and private collections including
the Arts Council of Ireland and the Office of Public Works.
This auction painting was part of a solo exhibition and winner of
the Tony O'Mally award 2008, from the Butler Gallery.
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