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165 IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 26 MAY 2025 AT 6PM 130 Richard Malone TAOIDE (NOTES AT HIGH TIDE), 2022 rug; (unique) signed with initials, titled and dated on label on reverse 102.50 by 78.75in. (260.4 by 200cm) Richard Malone was born in 1990 and grew up in Wexford, Ireland. He often references his working class upbringing and Irish identity as significant influences in his work. Malone graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2014. Following his graduation, his collection was purchased by Brown Thomas in Dublin. In 2017, his work was featured in the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s “Is Fashion Modern?” exhibition. In 2019, Malone was a finalist for the LVMH Prize, and, in 2020, won the Woolmark Prize. Malone’s creative practice spans across various mediums such as sculpture, installation, performance, drawing, costume, and garment making. In 2023, Malone received the Golden Fleece Award. In 2022, an exhibit showcasing Malone’s poems and self-portraits titled “Out in the World: Ireland’s LGBTQ+ Diaspora”was held at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. Recent solo exhibitions were held at the National Gallery of Ireland, Ormston House in Limerick, and in 2023, his most extensive sculptural mobile was displayed at the Royal Academy in London. He acknowledges the value of the skills he learned in rural Ireland – including stitching, curtain making, welding, and metal bending. In 2022, he was the artist in residence at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, responding to the gallery’s exhibition of Alberto Giacometti in Ireland. Various institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, hold Malone’s work. A portrait of Malone by Howard Tangye is in the National Portrait Gallery, London. From 2020 to 2022, Malone curated the touring exhibition “Making and Momentum: In Conversation with Eileen Gray”. €2,000-€3,000 (£1,690-£2,540 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot130