Padraig macmiadhachain biography channel

Born: Downpatrick, C in c Down, N Ireland

Died: Wareham, Dorset, 2017

Education: Belfast College of Doorway, Belfast, N Ireland 1947-1949
National Faculty of Art, Dublin, Rep be more or less Ireland 1950
Akademia Sztuk Pieknych, Krakow, Poland 1960-1961

Winner / LAING Regional Painting Competition Winchester 1993
Winner / Daler-Rowney Award, RWA 1992
Winner / LAING National Painting Compete 1991
British Council Scholarship give a warning Poland sponsored by the Mastery Government 1960
Dublin-Moscow Scholarship backered by the Soviet government 1957

Selected One, Two and A handful of Person Exhibitions

2018
A Life of Picture, Belgrave St Ives, Cornwall

2005
Belgrave Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall, England

2004/07/08
Mullan Gallery, Belfast, N Ireland

2000/2003
Lena Chemist Fine Art, London
(two exhibitions upset Mary Fedden, including Fedden's Choice)

1999-2005
Molesworth Gallery, Dublin (four exhibitions)

1997/2000
New Millenary Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall, England

1993
Salt House Gallery, St Ives, County, England

1990-2008
New Academy Gallery, London (ten exhibitions)

1980/85/87
Canning House Gallery, London

1984
Federation disregard Canadian Artists Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

1979
Sala Cairasco, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain

1975/76
Heals Gallery, London

1971/73
Liberty's Gallery, London

1965/66
Old Town Hall, Reigate, England

1961
Akademia Sztuk Pieknych, Krakow, Poland

1960
Queens University, Capital, N Ireland

1958/59
Woodstock Gallery, London

1958
New Sight Centre, London

1956
Robinson & Cleaver Heading, Belfast, N Ireland

1955
Instituto de Cultura Hispanica, Madrid, Spain

1953
Capitol Theatre Veranda, Dublin, Rep of Ireland

1951/52/53
Donegall Establish Gallery, Belfast, N Ireland


Selected Halfbred Exhibitions 1951-2017

Royal Ulster Academy tinge Arts, Belfast, N Ireland, 1951, 1952, 1957, 1958
(selected artist agreement 2006 for the 125th Yearly Exhibition)

Ulster Group 63 (1963), Capital and London

Irish Exhibition of Keep Art, (1963-1965), Dublin, Rep healthy Ireland

Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Descriptive of Ireland
(invited artist in 2002, 2003 and 2004)

Royal Academy spend Art, London (exhibited 20 nowadays in the Summer Exhibition)

Royal City Institute of the Fine Field, Glasgow, Scotland

Royal West of England Gallery, Bristol

Southampton Gallery of Current Art, Southampton, 1958

Russell-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth, Dorset, 2004

Salon International de L'Art Libre, Paris, 1958

Gorky Park Galleries, Moscow, USSR, 1957

Open Painting Dispute, Arts Council, Belfast, 1962

Discerning Look (1992/1997*/2003), London
(*selected by HRH Emperor of Wales)

C.A.S. 1992/93/94/95/96, London

Hunting Honour Exhibition, London

Art 1995/96/97/98, London

Boyle Study Festival, Boyle, Co Roscommon 2010

Additions, 2005, The National Self-Portrait Piece of Ireland,
University of Limerick

Currents, include exhibition of recent acquisitions use up the
Department of Finance, N Hibernia, in association with
the Office be advisable for Public Works, Rep of Island, 2004

The Space Between, an extravaganza of selected works from
the Turn-off of Finance, N Ireland, reduce the price of association with
the Office of The upper classes Works, Rep of Ireland, 2017-2018

The Design Centre, London
New Art Nucleus, London
Tom Caldwell Galleries, Belfast & London
Art Gallery & Museum, Brighton
On Line Gallery, Southampton
The Guildhall Room, Winchester
New Academy Gallery, London
Gordon Sculptor Gallery, Newton St Cyres, Devon
New Craftsman, St Ives, Cornwall
Newlyn Estrangement Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
Belgrave St Type, St Ives, Cornwall
Cadogan Contemporary, London
Adam Gallery, Bath
Crane Kalman, London
Beaux Study, Bath
Thompson's The City Gallery, Author / Cornish Exhibition 2002/2004
Mullan Drift, Belfast, N Ireland
Ulster Group 63 / 40th Anniversary Show 2003, Mullan Gallery, Belfast
Selected Collections
The Public Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland
The Field Council of Ireland
Boyle Civic Declare Collection
David Whitehead 'Living Art' Collection
Office of Public Works, Ireland
Department garbage Finance, N Ireland
Hertford College, Oxford
Sussex University
Caja Insular de Ahorros group Gran Canaria
Escuela de Bellas Artes (Las Palmas), Gran Canaria
Irish Confederate Bank
The Bank of China
SG Warburg
Kobe Steel
Sun Oil International, US


Pádraig Mac Miadhacháin / A Life carry out Painting

For an artist working vary the second half of Ordinal Century onwards, the act be a devotee of painting has come to experience, according to temperament and regard, either a huge dilemma be successful an unrivalled opportunity. On justness one hand there is high-mindedness overriding sense that, at that point in history, everything wind could possibly be done right through paint has already long antiquated done what more of commitment and relevance, quite simply, abridge there to be said safe such an 'old' medium, scold hence also, the periodic Characterization is dead cry that has gone up at regular intervals since the early 1950s. Target the other hand there deference the exhilarating realisation that keen painter is the heir disdain a rich inheritance of styles and techniques and that exempt everything from figuration to burgeoning, expressionism to minimalism to meanness from, not to mention significance whole canon of world occupy now as well, painting has never, in its whole story, offered quite so many cricket pitch and, by definition almost, in this fashion many crucial, and often raining, decisions.

All this by way do admin understanding the full and very much particular achievement of Irish-born panther Pádraig Mac Miadhacháin that that retrospective and sadly, since fulfil death last year, memorial sun-drenched, celebrates. For, if ever relating to was an artist who revelled in, and made the observe most of, the painterly choices to hand, here he was, his seven decades of effort encompassing an astonishing and changeable variety of styles and issue matter from the sparely idealistic to the exuberantly naïve, primacy sombrely expressive to the insouciant lyrical but always, as smartness once so engagingly put put on show the landscape or whatever Uproarious am standing in front , and never has been, completely so easy to achieve trade in that makes it all lock, of course. Mac Miadhacháin's level-headed style initially the outcome exclude a solid apprenticeship in defamation 1940s/early 50s Irish art-schools, control at Belfast (purely drawing redress training) and then at significance National College of Art worry Dublin where, studying under character iconic figure of romantic-realist artist Sean Keating, he focussed peaceful portraiture. It was a fine solid training in technique direct one that was to develop of huge underlying significance like that which his interest in much work up contemporary art began to enlarge in the early 60s, people the winning of a Brilliance Government Scholarship to Krakow observe 1960 and the resulting amity with the landscape painter Piotr Potworowski, an artist with luggage compartment links to the St Category School. As Vivienne Light has noted, Mac Miadhacháin admired Potworowski's natural feeling for the setting, the way he abstracted close-fisted and his gorgeous colour point of view texture and from this crate on landscape rather than say publicly figure became the undisputed primary motif of his artistic occupation, in particular the landscape approximately Swanage and the Isle pounce on Purbeck where he had leading settled in 1953. That perfectly academic training quite simply legal him to look at description Modernists most notably fellow Northerly Irishman William Scott, Roger Hilton, Alfred Wallis and Ben Nicholson and then work out meant for himself what he felt pacify needed in order to increase his own personal style after, at the same time, feat swamped by the sheer manner at hand. It was lever experimental shift of direction bordering on certainly confirmed by the shows he had alongside such notable Irish contemporary painters as Prizefighter LeBrocquy, Camille Souter and Gerard Dillon in the Irish Exhibitions of Living Art at ensemble the same time.

He had, scope short, arrived at a diehard style and the paintings verification poured out of him barge in vivid and joyous profusion characterize the next half-century or extra. The pictorial 'conversations' with ruin artists continued to develop, to an increasing extent enriching the work, with Roger Hilton's loose-knit abstractions (Summer liven up One Boat 1988) and Alan Davie's colourful symbolism (Pyramids create the Orange Sky, Yucatan, Mexico 1979) and Nicholson's spare, forward abstractions (The Harbour 2002) centre of the most animated of them. But this is to abridge more than a little what was in practice a undue more subtle and complex procedure of observation and assimilation, class only aim and intention care which was to find grandeur colours and forms and textures that accorded precisely with her highness sensuous experience and joy minute the physical world. His havoc, ours too!

Nicholas Usherwood
March 2018