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Festival, 2013; Festival de los Muertos, Pallas Projects/Studios, 2013;
Claremorris Gallery, 2013; and The Living Eye, Hillsboro Fine Art, 2014.
He is represented by Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast and Hillsboro Fine
Art, Dublin. He lives and works in the West of Ireland.
"There is something awkwardly Guston-like about Peter Burns’
paintings, and I have to admire his tenacity; often figurative work that
invokes humour can too easily lead to cartoon. Though not aesthetically
“beautiful” in the common sense of that word, the works have an allure
all their own. What interests me in particular is the heavy impasto
work; sometimes applied so thickly it is reminiscent of Yeats’ practice,
so heavy in-fact that lumps of oil paint hold debris against the canvas.
Which is unusual given the precise nature of the work. Though these
lumps appear haphazard, the time necessary for each layer of oil to dry
would take days. At other points, particularly when a figure emerges,
one can see that the paint is applied very sparingly. Sometimes using
just a single line. It is as if the more fanciful “dream-like” elements of
the work are purposefully left as an impression. These elements seem to
have been added rather quickly at the end of a very exhaustive practice."
Hilary Murray – ArtDublin, March 11, 2014
Kevin Mooney
graduated from ncad with an mfa in 2012. Selected group
exhibitions include Making Familiar, Temple Bar Gallery, 2012; Horizon
Sprawl, Ormston House, Limerick, 2012; and Video Killed the Radio
Star, Royal Hibernian Academy, 2010. Solo shows include: Wave, Pallas
Projects/ Studios, 2014; Dog Island Tales, Talbot Gallery, 2014; nag
Gallery, and Timeline, Queen Street Gallery, Belfast – both 2010; and
Facade, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, 2009.
He received a Visual Artists Bursary from the Arts Council in both
2012 and 2013. In 2013 he was also shortlisted for the Thames and
Hudson publication “100 Painters of Tomorrow”.
Born in Belfast in 1965, though now a long term resident in Sligo,
Ronnie
Hughes
studied at the University of Ulster, Belfast, receiving an ma in
Fine Art in 1989. Hughes has had numerous solo exhibitions throughout
Ireland (Butler Gallery, Context, Fenderesky Gallery, Goethe Institute,
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