Noel Sheridan

Figures by the Sea, 2008

Noel Sheridan

• Oil on Canvas
• 64 x 88cm

• (year indicated above is year of acquisition only)

   

  Noel Sheridan (1936 - 2006)

  Noel Sheridan studied at Trinity College Dublin, and Columbia University, New York. Originally an actor/dancer, Sheridan went on to become an artist, incorporating painting, conceptual art, performance and video in his work. He was deeply committed to the development and promotion of contemporary art. His artistic career includes two main phases, the first relating to painting, landscape, the figure and abstraction, the second relating to film and mixed-media performance. His painting Abstract has a dark moody feel, the horizontal flow of paint being concentrated in the centre of the canvas with the colours shifting from dark to light.

  He represented Ireland at the 1962 UNESCO Convention of Young Painters in Paris, and won the Carroll Prize for Painting at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in Dublin. He lived for periods of time in England, New York and in Australia, where, in 1974, he was appointed director of the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide. Two years later he participated in the Sydney Biennial of Art. Returning to Ireland in 1980, he was appointed director of the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, a position he held until 2003. Although based in Ireland at this time, Sheridan took time out from 1989 to 1993 to take up the directorship at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. In 1994 he was awarded an Emeritus Medal by the Australia Council for the Arts for his cultural contribution. In 2001 the Royal Hibernian Academy held a retrospective exhibition of his work, and in conjunction with Four Courts Press published a book, On Reflection, which includes an autobiographical account of his life as well as pieces by other contributors. Noel Sheridan died in Freemantle, Western Australia, in 2006, aged 70.

  from http://www.crawfordartgallery.ie/Paintings/sheridanabsract.html