COLIN MARTIN Mullan gallery
1973 Born in Dublin, Ireland
Education
1990 - 1994 College of Marketing and Design
Diploma in Fine Art - Painting
1994-1995 Post-Graduate Studies- Printmaking
Solo Exhibitions
2009 ‘A Minor Place’, Fenton Gallery.Cork
‘Chalet Town’, Draiocht Arts Centre, Blandchardstown.
2006/7 The Night Demesne’, Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin
West Cork Arts Centre, Skibereen, Cork.
2004 ‘Closer’, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2001 Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
1999/98 House’ - Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin & Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
1996 ‘Short Stories’ - Jo Rain Gallery, Dublin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 ‘Camera Obscura’ , Light House Cinema, Dublin
2008 ‘Defining Space’, OPG, Dublin
‘ Timbuctu ‘ Pallas Contemporary Projects
‘The Plininian Sponge, maybe?‘ RHA Touring Exhibition
2007 ‘Milestones’, OPW St Stephens Green
‘Thirty two thousand years later’, Pallas Contemporary Projects
‘Boyle Arts Festival’, Boyle, Co Roscommon.
‘Returning’, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda
2006 ‘Insideout’, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin.
2005 ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’, Chester Beatty Library. Dublin.
2004 ‘Travelogue’, Butler Gallery. Killkenny
2003 ‘Radharc’, Contemporary Irish Landscape Painting, Draiocht Arts Centre.
2002 ‘Holy Show’, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle.
2001 ‘Print Exchange’, Paris, ’France
“See it as it is”, Draiocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown.
2000 ‘Contemporary Irish Printmaking, Kelowna Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1999 ‘Print in Northern Latitudes’, Fyn, Denmark
‘Black Church Members Show”, Curated by Catherine Marshall, OPG
1998 ‘International Print Show’, Temple Bar, Dublin, Belfast and
Stoke on Trent, England
1997 '22nd International Biennial of Graphic Art, 1997', Ljubljana, Slovenija
Collections
ESB
Mclleland Collection
Allied Irish Bank
Chester Beatty Library
Office of Public Works
Dublin Institute of Technology
MicroSoft Ireland
AIG
Dubllin City University
Ace Europe.
Iona
Boyle Civic Collection
Private Collections in Ireland, England, America, Denmark, Sweden.
Awards
Thomas Dammann Travel Award 2008
Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland 2007
Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship 2005
Hennessy Craig Scholarship 2005
Golden Fleece Merit Award 2004
Travel Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland 2004
Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland 2004
Studio Rental Assistance Award, Arts council of Ireland 2001
Artflight Award 2001
Tony O Malley Travel Award 2000
Artflight Award Arts Council of Ireland 1999
Michael Byrne Arts Council Print Award 1998
Dept of Foreign Affairs Cultural Relations Committee Travel Award 1997
Arts Council of Ireland Materials Grant 1997
Bibliography
Representing Irish Art, Fenton Gallery
‘Returning’ Catalogue
‘Milestones’ Catalogue
Radharc, Catalogue 2003
RHA Catalogue, 2003 Holy Show, Catalogue 2002
Contributor to Art:Pack 2001
Print/Estampe 2001- Catalogue
International Print Show 1998 (Curated by Brian Kennedy) - Catalogue 22nd International Biennale Catalogue, Ljubljana Slovenia - Catalogue
International Print Show 1996 (Curated by Roberta Waddell) – Catalogue
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