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A major public exhibition, At Sea, took place at the Royal
Hibernian Academy, Dublin in 2010 and, more recently, he had a
solo drawing show, Hello Darkness, at The Kevin Kavanagh Gallery
Dublin in 2012.
His work is in Public and Private Collections, including The Irish
Museum of Modern Art, The Arts Council of Ireland and The Irish
Contemporary Art Association. He has received many awards including
The Henry Moore Fellowship from the rca and The Henry Moore
Foundation in 1995, the rha’s Annual Drawing Prize in 1999, Portrait
Award from the rha and the Irish us Council for Commerce in 2007,
Davy Portrait Award in 2008, as well as Residencies at imma in 1998
and Ballinglen Artists Foundation in 2003.
He has received numerous Arts Council of Ireland Awards, including
a Project Award in 2006 and a Visual Arts Bursary in 2008 and 2009.
In 2008 he received a Commission to write a one man spoken word
show, At Sea, which was staged at the Project Arts Centre Dublin
in 2009, and subsequently in various venues, including Chapters Art
Centre Cardiff, Crawford Gallery Cork, Centre Culturel Irlandais in
2010, and even at Electric Picnic – in 2011. Further exhibitions include:
Into Irish Drawing, Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris and Akkuh Henglo,
The Netherlands, 2009; Terror and Sublime, art in an age of anxiety,
Crawford Gallery Cork, 2009; Close to hand, Crawford Galley Cork,
2010; Human/Nature – Landscape photography from the State art
Collection, Farmleigh House, 2011.
Pádraig Spillane’s
practice explores the construction of appearances through
the manipulation and reorganisation of surfaces, the simulation and
reanimation of images and objects, and the play of alternates. Working
with photography, sculpture, and photomontage, Spillane’s work
explores the conditions of representation and object-relations: what
boundaries lie between us, images and objects?
Exhibitions include: Magic Touch, cca Derry – Londonderry,
Northern Ireland, 2014; Mammouth at Treignac Projet, France, 2014;
Fortnightly Features Presents, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2014;
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