Siuban Art

 

About Me

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 I currently live and work in Bangor Co. Down.

I have been using pencil and paint to explore the complexity of life and humanity for as long as I can remember. Although my working life took me in a different direction, working with humanity in particular children, enabling them to deal with life complexities.

The one thread that kept me connected to my true self was the use of pencil and paint using it within my various work settings. Over the years attending art course that continued to enhance and hone my skills.That thread has now become  my working life and that different direction experience of humanity in all its shapes and forms. In particular children, their connection to nature and other living things, their ability to float between realms of fantasy and reality and their roles in folklore and faerietales.

 When it comes to art making, for me, it is about breaking down then reconstructing the desires and fears of humanity through narrative portraiture ,paintings and more recently ceramics. Playing with texture and colour, layering up to create movement and depth to portray unspoken human emotions.

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C.V.

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Developing the Portriature                                        2013-2014

 

SERC Bangor                                                                                                                                              Foundition Dipolma Ceramics      distinction                      

Exhibitions 2016

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The Curve                  Serc Bangor group                           

Bangor Library             exhibition       

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The Space                   Meet the Maker                            

N.I. Tourist Board          group exhibition

Newtownards

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Haptik Cafe                  Cracked Ceramics                          

Artspace Gallery              group exhibition  

Newtownards

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RUA Annual exhibition         short listed

2017                            

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Ards Art Centre         Cracked Ceramics                                       

Newtownards           group exhibition

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Walled Garden Bangor ForM Sculpture Exhibition

             

RUA Annual exhibition     short listed 

2018                            

Walled Garden Bangor ForM Sculpture Exhibition 

            

RUA Annual Exhibition    Ulster museum Belfast           

2019

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ForM Sculpture Exhibition Bangor

                                  

RUA Annual Exhibtion  Ulster Museum Belfast               

  

Sculpture in Context    National Botanical Gardens Dublin 

 

'Myths and Mists' group exhibition North Down Museum

Bangor

                                                                       

'Realms of Twilight Dreams' Solo Exhibition

Chimera Gallery Mullingar Westmeath Ireland                

Awards

       

IDA award                                                                   2017

Galleries

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Chimera Gallery Mullingar Ireland Exhibiting and sales

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Puffin Gallery Ballycastle Northern Ireland Exhibiting and sales

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Ceramic Sculptures held in private collections

'Wee Biddy'

'Broken'

'The Boy in Big Boots'

'Left Behind'

'After the Solotice'

'Parting Gift'

Painting on permanent Loan in The Somme Centre Newtownards

'Dulcet et Decorum est'

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