Born 1943 Valencia Island, Co Kerry, Ireland Studied
1958-9 Studied Film Making at Fisherkoesen Film Studios, Bonn, Germany 1961-7
National College of Art, Dublin, Limerick School of Art, 1965-6 Awarded Study/Scholarship
at the Dublin Graphic Studio. 1967-8 Studied Principles of Teaching, NCAD,
Dublin. One Man Exhibitions
1966 Thomond Gallery, Limerick 1967 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin 1968 Brown
Thomas Gallery, Dublin 1969 No information available 1970 Gerald Davis
Gallery, Dublin 1971 Gerald Davis Gallery, Dublin 1972 Lantern Theatre
Gallery, Dublin 1973 No information available 1974 Emmet Gallery, Dublin:
United Arts Club, Dublin: Grafikuset Futura AC, Stockholm, Sweden 1975 The
Tom Caldwell Gallery, Dublin 1976 The Kevin Gallery, Limerick: Tom Caldwell
Gallery, Belfast 1977 No information available 1978 The Funge Arts Centre,
Gorey, Co Wexford: The Tom Caldwell Gallery Dublin: The Stone Art Gallery, Co.
Galway 1979 The Tom Caldwell Gallery, Dublin: The Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
1980 Allied Irish Banks, Limerick: Retrospective exhibition, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny:
The Kenny Gallery, Galway 1981 The Tara Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland: The
Tom Caldwell Gallery, Dublin 1982 The Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 1983 Belltable
Arts Centre, Limerick: The Tom Caldwell Gallery, Dublin 1984 No information
available 1985 No information available 1986 The Grafton Gallery, Dublin
1987 Foynes Library Gallery, Co. Limerick: Newcastlewest Library, Co Limerick:
United Arts Club, Dublin: Bank of Ireland, (Citizens II), Dublin: Carroll Gallery,
Longford 1988 The Doolan Moore Gallery, Athlone: Garter Lane Arts Centre,
Waterford 1989 United Arts Club, Dublin 1990 Carroll Gallery, Longford:
Riverrun Gallery, Four Views, Limerick 1991 Riverrun Gallery, Four Views,
Dublin: Carroll Gallery, Longford: 1992 Claremorris Residency Exhibition,
Co Mayo. Vanguard Gallery, Macroom Co Cork: Carroll Gallery, Longford 1993
Rigas Gallery Riga, Latvia: Hallward Gallery, Dublin: United Arts Club, Dublin
1994 No one-man Shows this year 1995 Hallward Gallery, Dublin 1996 The
Vanguard Gallery, Macroom, Co Cork: Dolmon Gallery, Limerick. 1997 Hallward
Gallery, Dublin. The United Arts Club, Dublin. 1998 St Johns Heritage Arts
Centre, Listowel, Co. Kerry. A Retrospective, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo Travelling
to Limerick & Cork. Hallward Gallery, Dublin. 1999 No one-man shows
2000 Belltable Arts Center Limerick 2001 Hallward Gallery, Dublin 2002
No one-man shows 2003 Chris Doswell Gallery, Limerick 2004 Hallward Gallery,
Dublin
2005 Hallward Gallery, Dublin
2006 United Arts Club, Dublin, Russell
Gallery, Co Clare
2008 Gormleys, Dublin
2008 Gormleys Fine Art, Belfast. (April/May)
2009 Gormley Fine Art, Dublin
2010 United Arts Club, Dublin,
Russell Gallery, Co Clare
Group Exhibitions
1961 Irish Artists Winter Exhibition, Limerick
1962 Irish Artists Winter Exhibition,
Limerick
1963 Young Irish Artists Foundation, (Travelling)
Irish Artists
Winter Exhibition, Limerick
1964 Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin: Irish Artists
Winter Exhibition, Limerick
1965 Dante Divine Comedy Competition and Exhibition,
(Awarded First Prize), Italian Institute, Dublin: Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin:
Young Irish Artists Foundation, (Travelling): Young Irish Artists Foundation,
(Travelling)
1966 Commemoration of 1916 Rising Competition & Exhibition,
(Awarded First prize artist under 25 years. Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin:
Irish Artists Winter Exhibition, Limerick
1967 Irish Artists, Boston, USA:
Oireachtas Art Exhibition, Dublin: Dutch/Irish Artists Exhibition, Municipal Gallery
of Modern Art, Dublin: First International Triennale, New Delhi, India
1968
Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin: Oireachtas Art Exhibition, Dublin
1969 Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Cork: Oireachtas Art Exhibition, Dublin
1970 Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin: Oireachtas Art Exhibition, Dublin
1971 Independent Artists Exhibition, Dublin: Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin:
Oireachtas Art Exhibition, Dublin
1972 Independent Artists Exhibition, Dublin:
Irish Exhibition of Living Art, (Awarded) Dublin: Oireachtas Art Exhibition, Dublin
1973 Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin: Oireachtas Art Exhibitio1974 Writers
Week Exhibition, Listowel, (Awarded) Independent Artists Exhibition, Dublin: Irish
Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin.
1975 No information available
1976 Irish
Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin: Oireachtas Art Exhibition, Dublin: Listowel
Graphics, Co.Kerry
1977 Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin: Independent Artists
Exhibition, Dublin: Oireachtas Art Exhibition, Dublin, Belfast & Letterkenny:
Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick.
1978 7 Irish Artists, Stockholm, Sweden:
Independent Artists Exhibition, Dublin: Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin:
Oireachtas Art Exhibition, Dublin
1979 Harper-Meagher-Walsh Show, Galway:
Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin: Oireachtas Art Exhibition, Dublin: Independent
Artists, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin: Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick:
1980
Grafika 2 Ireland, Dublin: Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin: Oireachtas
Art Exhibition, Dublin: Claremorris Art Exhibition, Co. Mayo: Exhibition of Visual
Art, Limerick: Works on Paper, Angela Flowers Gallery, London: Limerick Based
Artists, Stone Gallery, Galway: Oireachtas Art Exhibition, Dublin: 2nd International
Print Biennial, Listowel
1981 Drawing Towards, (Arts Council Touring Exhibition):
Independent Artists Exhibition, Dublin: Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin:
Oireachtas Art Exhibition, Dublin: 6 Limerick Artists, (Touring): Exhibition of
Visual Art, Limerick: Gallery Artists, Caldwell, Dublin: Listowel Open Graphics,
Kerry: A Personal Choice, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick
1982 ARTDER Muestra
Internacional de Obera Grafica, Bilboa, Spain: AND PRINT, Waterloo Gallery, London:
Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick: Limerick Artists, Kilkenny & Blesington:
153rd Royal Hiberninian Academy, Dublin: Claremorris Art Exhibition, Co Mayo:
Independent Artists Exhibition, Dublin: Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin:
Oireachtas Art Exhibition, Dublin: Six Limerick Artists, (Touring): SADE 82 Cork:
Art in Schools (Touring): EXPOS, Clonmel Co Tippperary
1983 BELTINE, Quimper,
France: Art in Schools 5, (Touring mid west):Plassy Art Days, All+10 Sorts, Limerick
University: TCD Collection, DH Gallery, Dublin: Independent Artists Exhibition,
Dublin: Gallery Artists, Hammerquist Gallery, New York: ART EXTRA 83, Dublin:
Oireachtas Art Exhibition, Dublin: George Dawson Collection, Dublin
1984 Oireachtas
Art Exhibition, Dublin: Staff Only, City Art Gallery, Limerick: Royal Hiberninian
Academy, Dublin: Independent Artist's Exhibition, Dublin: SKIBB 84, Co Cork: Exhibition
of Visual Art, Limerick: Gallery Artists, Hammerquist Gallery, New York:
1985
All+10 Sorts, NIHE, Limerick & Ennis: Simon Art Auction, Galway: Independent
Artist's Exhibition, Dublin & Belfast: Irish Artists, The Gallery, Ennis:
SKIBB 85, Co Cork
1986 Miniature Art, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Canada:
Murray/Harper, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick: Royal Hiberninian Academy, Dublin:
Irish Artists, Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare: Irish Printmakers, Cuba, (Touring): Claremorris
Art Exhibition, Co Mayo: 26th Independent Artist's Exhibition, Guinness Hop Store,
Dublin: NCAD Decade Show 1975-85, Hob Store, Dublin
1987 Independent Artist's
Exhibition, Dublin: Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick: Citizens II, Bank of Ireland,
Dublin: Western Artists, Time Stone Gallery, Touring Ireland & Australia:
Claremorris Art Exhibition, Co Mayo: DISPOSITIONS 87, Brussels, Belgium: Munster
Fine Art Society, Cork: Living Landscape 87 Skibbereen & Cork: Riverrun Gallery
Inauguration Show, Limerick: Western Artists, Galway
1988 Arts Forum Exhibition,
Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick. Trees of Life, Touring Ireland :Western Artists,
Touring Australia:
1989 National Self Portrait Collection, Dublin: Trees
of Life, IMMA, Dublin & Donegal: Gallery Artists, Riverrun Gallery, Dublin
1990 National Self Portrait Collection, Belfast: Irish & Soviet Contemporary
Art Exhibition, Dublin: ART DAYS, University of Limerick, Limerick: Southern Artists
Exhibition Lavitts Quay Gallery, Cork:
IONTAS, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo: Limerick
Schools Project Auction, Limerick: George Moore Memorial Exhibition Clare Morris
Art Gallery,Claremorris, Co. Mayo: IMPRESSIONS III , Galway Arts Festival, Galway:
STARPTAUTISKAIS AKVARELISTU PLENERS, Cecis Art Museum, Latvia, USSR: CESU Plenera,
Riga, Latvia: Irish Writers by Irish Artists, Kenny Gallery, Galway: XMAS Exhibition,
United Arts Club, Dublin: The Irish Figuratists, George Gallery, Dublin &
Smiths Gallery, London:
1991 Gateway to Art, AER Rianta Arts Festival, Dublin
Airport, Dublin: Oireachtas Art Exhibition, Dublin: Gallery Artists, Riverrun
Galleries, Limerick, Dublin & Galway
1992 Oireachtas Art Exhibition, (Invited)
Dublin: Gallery Artists, Riverrun Galleries, Limerick, Dublin & Galway: Royal
Hiberninian Academy, Dublin: Starptautiskais Akvarelistu, Pleners, Cecis Art Museum,
Cecis, Latvia. Western Artists '92, Shannon Airport, Co Clare.
1993 Royal
Hiberninian Academy, Dublin: Starptautiskais Akvarelistu, Pleners, Cecis Art Museum,
Cecis, Latvia: Erasmus European Artists Exhibition, University of Kingston, London:
4 Limerick Painters, Dolan Moore Gallery, Athlone: Gallery Artists, Stone Art
Gallery, Co Galway: Schools Project Auction, Limerick & Cork: Monaghan Open
Boyle Arts Festival: Iontas, Sligo: Erasmus European Artists Exhibition, Southmayor,
Spain: To The Baltic & Back, Irish Life Centre, Dublin. Monaghan Open Exhibition,
The County Museum Gallery.
1994 Royal Hiberninian Academy, Dublin: Living
Landscape, Skibbereen, Limerick & Dublin. An tOireachtas, Guinnes Hops Store,
Dublin.
1995 "Altered States" Exhibition, ( Art's Council Travelling
Exhibition) RHA Dublin. Print Celebration Exhibition, Belltable and Dolman Gallery
Limerick, Schools Project, Limerick & Cork. Danny's Cafe, Limerick. Oireachtas
Art Exhibition, (Invited), Dublin. Group Exhibition, Castletroy Park Hotel, (Greenlane
Gallery) Limerick
1996 Royal Hiberninian Academy, Dublin: Limerick Printmakers,
Berlin. Irish Artists, Lithuania
1997 The Art of the Book, National Gallery
of Ireland, Dublin, Aer Rianta, Dublin. Iontas, Dublin,
Belfast & Skibereen,
Co.Cork. Summer Show, 167th Royal Hiberninian Academy, Dublin:Hallward Gallery.
Irish Printmakers, Hallward Gallery, Dublin. Irish Artists, Czech Republic. Iontas.
Dublin, Belfast & Skibberene. Dunlavin Festival of Arts. Academy without walls,RHA
Banquet Exhibition, Dublin. COE 97 Claremorris, Co. Mayo. Limerick Printmakers,
Dolman Gallery, Limerick, Limerick Printmakers, El Centro de
Desarrollo de
las Artes plasticas, Havana, Cuba.
1998 RHA Banquet Exhibition, Dublin. Hallward
Gallery Summer Show, Remember Kemmy, Limerick City Art Gallery. EV+A, Limerick
City Gallery of Art. Art for Omagh Auction, National Concert Hall, Dublin. Art
of the State, 1998 New Directions 1970-1985 The Basement Gallery Town Hall Dundalk.
Dunlavin Festival. Iontas, Sligo. Christmas Exhibition 1998, Sligo Art Gallery.
Christmas Exhibition, Hallward Gallery, Dublin. John Shinnors Selects, Lavit Gallery,
Cork. Buntus, Ardara, Co. Donegal. Lithuanian Show, Tig Fili, Cork.
1999 RHA,
Dublin. LSAD Print Auction, Limerick. Boyle Arts Festival 1999(Invited). Hallward
Summer & Christmas Exhibitions. IONTAS, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo
2000
Greenlane show at Parkway Hotel. 170th Royal Hiberninian Academy, Dublin:, Anthony
Cronin Show, Claremorris. Cats, Sligo Art Gallery.
2001 *RHA, Dublin. *Christmas
Show, RHA, Dublin. *Group Show, Cavanacor Gallery, Lifford, Co Donegal. *FITZGERALD
HARPER SHINNORS SLADE Vangard Gallery, Cork. * As I See Myself, Hunt Museum, Limerick.
*OPENING exhibition, Galway Art Gallery. Galway, *CASE, Lavett Gallery Cork. *RHA
Banquet Show RHA Gallery, Dublin. *Hallward Summer Show, Dublin.
2002 14 Artists
One Place, Holter Museum of Art, Montana, USA. Time
150 years Celebration
staff of LSAD, Church Gallery, LSAD/LIT, Limerick, 173rd.Royal Hiberninian Academy,
Dublin:
2003 Claremorris Open, (Past prisewinners) Co Mayo. Irish Art, Walton
Gallery, London. New Gallery Opening, Gallery Artists, Greenlane Gallery, Dingle.
Postcards 2003, West Cork Arts Centre. ). Dunlavin Art Festival. Hallward Summer
& Christmas Exhibitions, Dublin. Art for Amnesty, Dublin. Artists from the
West of Ireland, The Osborne Studio Gallery, London. Tom Caldwell Memorial Exhibition,
Springfield, Lisburn, Northern Ireland.
The Great Blasket Island Inspired,
Greenlane Gallery, Dingle, Co Kerry. Irish Art, Wexford Vocational College, Wexford.
2004 Dunlavin Festival Dunlavin. Group Show, Greenlane Gallery, Co Kerry, RHA,
Dublin
2005 Iontas, Sligo, RHA, Dublin. Bank of Ireland Collection, Crawford
Gallery, Cork. Wexford Vocational College. Wexford. RHA Drawing Show, Dublin.
Ormond Hotel (Swift Gallery) Kilkenny.
2006 RHA, Dublin
2008
McBride Gallery, Killarney, Co. Kerry
Awards
1965 First Prize, Interpretations of the Devine Comedy, Commemorating Dante's
birth, presented by Institute Italiano de Cultura, Dublin.
1966 First Prize
for painting commemorating the 50th. Anniversary of the 1916 Rising, Municipal
Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin.
1971 The Carrolls Open Award, Irish Exhibition
of Living Art, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
1974 First Prise, Duais
Na Riochta, Gold Medal, Presented by An Taoiseach, Mr. Charles Haughy, Listowel
Writers Week, Co Kerry.
1994 The Arts Council's Bonn an Uachtarain de Hide,
at The Oireachtas, Duglas Hide Gallery, Dublin.
1980 Joint First Prize, Claremorris
Open, Claremorris Co Mayo.
1990 First Prize IMPRESSIONS 111, Galway Arts Festival.
1990 Awarded Artist-in-Residence Claremorris Co Mayo.
1997 Painting Award
at Iontas 97, RHA Gallery, Dublin.
1998 EV+A Joint Open Award, Limerick City
Gallery of Art. Represented Ireland
1968 Bianco e Nero, Lugano, Switzerland
1968 First Triennial India, National
Gallery of Modern Art and Lalit Kala Gallery New Delhi, India.
1972 International
Biennial of Graphic Art Florence, Italy.
1974 International Biennial of Graphic
Art Florence, Italy.
1975 Die International Kunstmesse. Basel, Switzerland.
1978 Seven Irish Painters, Gallery R Stockholm, Sweden
1980 Contemporary Irish
Art, Angela Flowers Gallery, London.
1982 ARTEDER 82 Muestra International
de Opra Grafica, Bilboa, Spain.
1983 BELTINE Quimper Brittany, France
1990 PLENERS, Cecis, Cesu Museum & Riga. Latvia. USSR
1992 CESU PLENERA,
Cesu Museum & Riga, Latvia.
1993 CESU PLENERA, Cesu Museum & Riga,
Latvia.
1996 Lithuania Plenera Irish Artists Public
Collections
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
USA The Arts Council of Ireland
Cecis Art Museum, Latvia The Arts Council
of Northern Ireland
The Latvian Ministry of Culture, Riga, Latvia AIB Collection,
Bank Center, Dublin
Limerick City Gallery of Art Permanent Collection PJ Carroll
& Co
Telecom Eireann, Dublin Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
Pontravedra Museum of Art, Spain John Hunt Collection
Kingston University,
London Gordon Lambert Collection, IMMA, Dublin
Office of Public Works GPA
Collection
National Self Portrait Collection, University of Limerick Hugh
Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin
Irish Aviation Authority Modern Irish Art Collection,
AIT, Athlone
National Collection of Contemporary Drawings,,LCGA Ulster Museum,
Belfast
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Gordon Lambert Collection. University
of Limerick
The Modern Art Collection, Trinity College Dublin Sligo Art Gallery
Wexford County Hall Art Collection Paintings in many Irish Embassy's throughout
the World Bibliography & Publications
Art about Ireland Magazine, Interview with Linda Kavanagh.
Irish Times Interview
with Harriet Cooke;
Irish Art from the 16cent. to present day, Anne Crookshank.
Irish Exhibition of Living Art '82,
Circa Magazine 1983;
Irish
Art, Bruce Arnold Thames & Hudson, 1977.
Art in Ulster 2, Mike ACTT,
1977.
Contemporary Irish Art, Roderick Knowles, WH Press;
The Arts in
Ireland: a Chronology, Christopher Fitz Simon, Gill&Macmillan 1982;
Irish
& European Art & Appreciation, Jimmy Burns;
HARPER Retrospective
catalogue essay by Paul O Reilly,
Robert Ballagh, Ciaran Carty, 1986.
Circa Magazine Review, Gerry Walker 1988 Garter Lane, Waterford;
Irish Times
Profile Interview John Hutchinson;
New York Art Review;
Gordon Lambert
Collection, Pub. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
Art Appreciation Lourda
Shepherd;
Cesu Varvaviksne; Dienna, Rita Berelsone 1993;
Iru Gleznotajs,
Riga TEV, Astrida Rogule 1993;
Literatura un Maksla, interview with Petris
Bankovskis, Latvian Art Critic.
History of Irish Art Revision by Ursula O'Meara
& Theresa Hegarty, Folens, 1994.
AIB ART, a selection from the collection,
Frances Ruane, 1995.
National collection of Contemporary Drawing vol.l, Limerick
City Gallery of Art.
Modern Irish Lives, Dictionary of 20th-Century Biography
Ed Louis McRedmond, 1996.
Appreciation and History of Art, Aidan O Sullivan,
Gill & Macmillan, 1998.
Modern Art in Ireland, Dorothy Walker, 1997.
Five hundred years of the art of the book in Ireland, 1500 to the present,
Joseph McDonnell, Merrill Holberton publishers L onion, 1997
Charles Harper
Profile, Aiden Dunne & Gerry Walker, Gandon Editions, 1998.
Catalogue
of the collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, May 1991- May 1998.
A buyers
guide to Irish Art, Ashville media group Ltd. 1999.
Organisation,
Committees, etc.
Project Arts Centre, Dublin 1970
-3, Committee
Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin 1971-4. Committee
Oireachtas Art Exhibition, 1979-88, Committee
Selector, Oireachtas Art Exhibition
Founder of EVA, Limerick, Committee 1975-87
Jury, Claremorris Art Exhibition,
1979
All+10 Sorts 1985-7, Committee
Founder member of Aosdana in 1982
Head, Fine Art, Limerick School of Art & Design, LIT.
Erasmus Co-ordinator
International student Exchange
Founder & Executive member of AOSDANA 1987-8
& 1997-8
Elected ARHA in 1997 & made RHA 2003
Member of AAI Other
Relevant Information
1990-3 Invited to Latvia Latvian
Artists Union for the International Pleners Symposium
Artist-in-Residence,
Claremirris, Co Mayo.
1995 Invited/Commissioned to make print for "Altered
States" Travelling Exhibition by Arts Council of Ireland
|