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Blue Mountains Artist
ANDREW IRELAND (Recent Exhibitor)
Andrew Ireland was born and educated
in Manchester, UK, undertook a Foundation Diploma in Fine Art at Salford
Technical College and achieved a BA Honors Fine Art (1st Class) in
Painting and Printmaking at Brighton Polytechnic. After extensive travel
through Europe Andrew migrated to Australia in 1985.
In 1986-1997 Andrew worked as an illustrator for the Sydney Morning
Herald, Australian Financial Review, The Times on Sunday and The
Australian. He was awarded The Bulletin's Black & White Artists’ ‘Best
Humorous Illustrator Award’ in 1990 and in 1991 he successfully
exhibited a solo show of his paintings at the Rex Irwin Gallery in
Sydney.
During 1991-92 Andrew travelled to live and work in Italy, where he
exhibited solo at Gallerie E5, Verona and Southern Gallery, Rome. He
returned to Australia and continued to work as a painter/freelance
illustrator. Andrew has been regularly involved and employed in art
education: at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Newcastle,
Sydney Graphics College, Billy Blue Design School, the University of
Technology, Sydney, the University of Western Sydney and Blue Mountains
Grammar School. His work has been purchased by many private collectors
and Art Bank Australia.
Andrew lives and paints in Wentworth Falls and is a highly-respected
teacher of art at Korowal School, Lawson.
Andrew Ireland’s diverse imagery focuses on the figurative in order to
support his whimsical visual narratives; be they absurdist, ironic or
quotidian observation. His paintings seek to weave a tale ... a tale
layered in encrusted oil, wax and varnish. These essential elements have
grown out of his early training and experimentation as a
painter/printmaker. Alchemical reverse processes attract Ireland both in
fable and in method. The paintings contain gently opposing forces;
dream-like conundrums merge with observed realities, melancholia
entwines with comedy and time drifts between the contemporary and the
nostalgic.
Excerpt from exhibition catalogue, ‘Memories, Dreams and Reflections’,
March 2008.
Andrew’s solo exhibition of 53 works at Hat Hill Gallery in March, 2008,
‘Memories, Dreams and Reflections’, was followed by a well-received
exhibition at Art Sydney 08 (Sydney’s annual art fair at Moore Park) in
October, 2008. Several of Andrew’s recent larger works can be seen at
Hat Hill Gallery, Blackheath.
For further enquiries please contact Viken at Hat Hill Gallery on
4787 7033.
Hunting Yabbies on the Darwin Walk
Weekend Soccer
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Bayside
Difficult Customers
Dogs Day
Durras Study 1
Durras Study 3
More paintings are on display in the
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