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Colin Davidson RUA
(
b.
1968)
EVENING, KILKEEL, 2000
oil on canvas
signed lower left; signed again, dated
and inscribed with title on reverse
54 by 60in. (137.16 by 152.40cm)
Colin Davidson is a contemporary artist,
living and working near Belfast, Northern
Ireland. Since graduating with a first class
honours degree from the Art and Design
Faculty at the University of Ulster in 1991,
Davidson has exhibited extensively in
London, New York, Milan and across Ireland.
He has been shown regularly at the Royal
Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition,
where he has twice won awards, and has
been an Academician of the Royal Ulster
Academy since 2006, having won the RUA
Gold Medal three times and the Silver
Medal twice.
Colin Davidson’s work is in public and
corporate collections across Ireland,
including the Arts Council for Northern
Ireland, the BBC, the National Self-Portrait
Collection of Ireland, Limerick, the Office of
Public Works Collection, the Law Society of
Ireland and Queen’s University, Belfast.
A selection of portraits of writers and actors
from his latest body of work is presently on
display in the newly-reopened Lyric
Theatre, Belfast.
€
5,000-
€
7,000
(£4,000-£5,600 approx)
141
Colin Davidson RUA
(
b.
1968)
LATE AFTERNOON, ARDGLASS, 1998
oil on board
signed lower right; inscribed with title
and dated on reverse; with Taylor
Gallery [Belfast] label also on reverse
3 by 36in. (7.62 by 91.44cm)
€
3,000-
€
4,000
(£2,400-£3,200 approx)