May 15 to June 7: Thomas Ryan, PPRHA - exhibiton of Selected Works, watercolours and oil paintings.

Venue: Mechanical Soils Laboratory (adjacent to Áras na Mac Léinn)

NUI Galway proudly presents a retrospective of the work of Thomas Ryan PPRHA, prolific Irish artist, who works in oils, pastels, pencil, charcoal and watercolour, and has been painting for over 60 years. Selected Works runs from 15 May to 7 June in the Mechanical Soils Lab, adjacent to Áras na Mac Léinn and is open to the public Monday to Saturday, 11am to 4pm daily; free entry. 

The exhibition of Selected Works, selected by the Artist, Thomas Ryan and the Arts & Theatre Office, NUI Galway, includes two of his large historical paintings, ’ The Flight of the Earls’ and ’ G.P.O. 1916’, both oil on canvas and painted in the great European Tradition.  These paintings normally hang inside Dublin Castle and Leinster House, respectively, and have been generously loaned by the artist and the Institutions.  Tom Ryan is renowned for imaginative re-workings of historical and religious episodes and he is also heralded as an important chronicler of the changing face of Ireland, through his portraiture, and paintings of exteriors and interiors of buildings.

On show at NUI Galway, are portraits, self-portraits, religious paintings, interiors, still lives and landscapes, many loaned from the artist’s home, for this ’retrospective’ of his career.   Two portrait highlights on show are a pastel drawing, ’ Seán Keating, aged 82 years’ and a drawing of te late Professor of Marine Science , ’Padraic O’Céidigh’, which is part of the NUI Galway Collection.  In addition, there is a selection of watercolours from a recent project, Dublin and Thereabouts, when Thomas Ryan painted the buildings and places that took his fancy in Dublin, 2010-2011, all painted directly from the subject, and mostly in one sitting.

Thomas Ryan, born in Limerick in 1929, trained in the School of Art, Limerick under Richard Butcher and at the National College of Art & Design, under Seán Keating and Maurice MacGonigal. 

Thomas Ryan was President of Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts from 1982 to 1992, is a Founder Member of the European Council of National Academies of Fine Art (Madrid), and an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy, London and Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.  His work hangs in major collections and he was the designer of the one pound coin and millennium fifty pence.  He lives in County Meath, and produces most of his work in his studio.

Thomas Ryan PPRHA: Selected Works was officially launched at 5pm on Tuesday 14 May by the Academic Secretary to the University, Gearóid Ó’Conluain, when Thomas Ryan was also be in attendance.  

Links: http://irishartsreview.com/irisartsreviyear/pdf/1997/20492949.pdf.bannered.pdf

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INKLING: 3rd Year GMIT Printmakers exhibition at NUI Galway art gallery, Quadrangle Building.

Official launch by Siobhan Piercy, Artist & Head of GMIT Printmaking Department on  Friday, May 24 at 7.00pm. 

All welcome, refreshments served, free entry. 

INKLING showcases original prints from GMIT 3rd year degree students. The exhibition will present various methods of creating prints through different media including, etchings, screenprints, lino prints and monoprints.  This exhibition will run for one week only until May 31st.  NUI Galway Arts & Theatre Office is delighted to welcome back once more the GMIT 3rd year degree students.  The variety of work which will be on display promises, as always, to be a treat for the senses with works appealing to one and all.   

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