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List Of Artists From Northern Ireland
This is a list of WP:ARTIST, notable artists born in Northern Ireland. __NOTOC__ A *Kiran Acharya (1983–) *Arthur Armstrong (painter), Arthur Armstrong (1924–1996) *Array Collective (active 2016–present) –Northern Irish collective of artists and activists who won the 2021 Turner Prize B * James Bingham (artist), James Bingham (1925–2009) * Basil Blackshaw (1932–2016) * Bogside Artists * Alicia Boyle (1908–1997) *Terry Bradley (1965–) * Muriel Brandt (1909–1981) * Deborah Brown (1927– ) * John Byrne (Irish artist), John Byrne C *Joseph W. Carey (1859–1937) *Thomas Carr (artist), Thomas Carr (1909–1999) *W. H. Conn (1895–1973) *William Conor (1881–1968) *William A. Coulter (1849–1936) *James Humbert Craig (1877–1944) D *Colin Davidson (artist), Colin Davidson (1968– ) *Gerard Dillon (1916–1971) *Willie Doherty (1959– ) *Keith Drury (artist) (1964– ) *Rita Duffy (1959– ) E *Brendan Ellis (1951- ) F *T.P. Flanagan, T P Flanagan (1929� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARTIST
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the show business, entertainment business to refer to Actor, actors, Musician, musicians, Singing, singers, Dance, dancers and other Performing arts#Performers, performers, in which they are known as ''Artiste'' instead. ''Artiste'' (French) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. The use of the term "artist" to describe Writer, writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts such as critics' reviews; "author" is generally used instead. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older, broader meanings of the word "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Humbert Craig
James Humbert Craig (12 July 1877 in Belfast – 12 June 1944) was an Irish painter.Craig was born in Belfast to Alexander Craig, a tea merchant, and a Swiss mother, Marie Metzenen, from a family with a painting tradition. He was raised in County Down and maintained a studio at Cushendun, County Antrim. Craig abandoned a career in business, briefly attended the Belfast School of Art, and became a mostly self-taught painter of landscapes. Among his favorite panoramas were County Donegal, Connemara and the Glens of Antrim. Craig was elected to the Royal Ulster Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1928. He also exhibited at the Fine Art Society in London. His landscapes helped inspire artists like Maurice Canning Wilks. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Early life and family James Humbert Craig was born at 16 Brougham Street Belfast, on 12 July 1877. Soon after his birth his family moved to Bally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Harron
Maurice Harron (born 1946) is an artist, educator and public sculptor from Derry, Northern Ireland. He was educated at St Columb's College and at the University of Ulster, Ulster College of Art and Design in Belfast. He has completed dozens of monuments in Ireland, the UK and in the USA. Notable commissions include ''Hands Across the Divide, Reconciliation/Hands Across the Divide'' in Carlisle Square, Derry, ''Let the Dance Begin'' in Strabane, the Irish Famine Memorial on Cambridge Common, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Red Hugh O'Donnell in Roscommon, Grainne in Heritage Green park, Chicago and CS Lewis Square in Belfast. ReferencesMaurice Harron website *Grainne, Chicag [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Cecilia Harrison
Sarah Cecilia Harrison (21 June 1863 – 23 July 1941) was an Irish artist and the first woman to serve on Dublin City Council. Early life and education Harrison, who went by the name Cecilia, was born to an affluent family in Holywood House, in Holywood, County Down. She was the third child of Letitia (nee Tennent) and landowner Henry Harrison JP (d. 1873). One of her brothers was politician and writer Henry Harrison (Irish politician), Henry Harrison, a supporter of Charles Stewart Parnell. Her maternal grandfather was Robert James Tennent, a liberal MP for Belfast. She was the great grand-niece of Society of United Irishmen, United Irishman and industrialist Henry Joy McCracken and the social reformer and anti-slavery campaigner Mary Ann McCracken. At the age of ten her father died and she and her family relocated to London. Harrison studied at Queen's College, London where she was awarded a silver medal by University College, London, for painting from the antique style. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siobhán Hapaska
Siobhán Hapaska (born 1963) is an Irish sculptor. Early life and education Hapaska was born in Belfast and studied art at Middlesex Polytechnic from 1985 to 1988 before completing a master's degree at Goldsmiths College in 1992. In 1993 she won a Barclays Young Artist Award and had her first solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London during 1995 and 1996. Work Hapaska works with a variety of synthetic and natural materials, and often incorporates sound and light elements into her work. Her sculptures range in form from completely abstracted to hyperrealistic. References Further reading *"Hapaska, Siobhán." In Grove Art Online. (Oxford Art Online, accessed 30 March 2013).Artist Biography for Siobhán Hapaskain the Tate Modern Tate Modern is an art gallery in London, housing the United Kingdom's national collection of international Modern art, modern and contemporary art (created from or after 1900). It forms part of the Tate group together wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Crampton Gore
William Crampton Gore RHA (1871–1946) was an Irish painter. The son of an army officer from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Gore studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 1897 and practising until 1901. An intervening period of some months in 1898 was spent studying art under Henry Tonks at the Slade School of Art, giving him a taste for life as a professional painter. After a stint abroad, during which he worked as a ship's surgeon on sailings to North America, India and Italy, he returned to London and the Slade, studying there from 1900 until 1904. Whilst there he befriended Sir William Orpen and Augustus John, sharing a studio with the latter. In 1905 he first exhibited with the RHA and from then until 1939 he contributed over a hundred works to their annual shows. In 1916 he was elected an Associate member of the RHA and in 1918 he was made a full member. His works were mainly interiors and still-lives in oils. Flower painting in particular attracte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William St
William is a masculine given name of Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman conquest in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will or Wil, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, Billie, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie). Female forms include Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germanic name is a compound of *''wiljô'' "will, wish, desire" and *''helmaz'' "helm, helmet".Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowel Friers
Rowel Boyd Friers ''MBE'' ''PPRUA'' (13 April 1920 -21 September 1998) was a cartoonist, illustrator, painter and lithographer. Early life and career Friers grew up in the Lagan Village area of Belfast near the Ravenhill Road. He was apprenticed to the Belfast lithographic firm S. C. Allen and Co, and studied at the Belfast College of Art from 1935 to 1942. He began publishing his cartoons in the 1940s. He began concentrating on political cartooning with the advent of The Troubles in the late 1960s. His work appeared in '' Punch'', the ''Radio Times'', '' London Opinion'', the ''Daily Express'', the '' Sunday Independent'', '' Dublin Opinion'', '' the Northern Whig'', the '' News Letter'', ''The Irish Times'' and the ''Belfast Telegraph''. Aside from cartooning, Friers was a leading figure in the Ulster Watercolour Society, and his oil paintings hang in the National Portrait Gallery, the gallery of the Ulster Museum, and many other collections. He illustrated more than 30 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Frazer (artist)
Hugh Frazer (1795–1865) was an Irish landscape and genre painter. Frazer was born in Dromore, County Down, enrolled in the Dublin Society in 1812 and exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1826 through 1864. Granted membership at the RHA in 1837, he was a professor there from 1839 to 1853. Frazer was also President of the Association of Artists, which was founded in Belfast Belfast (, , , ; from ) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel ... in . Isaacs Art Center. Retrieved April 18, 2011. References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan Ellis
Brendan Ellis (born 1951) is an Irish artist and teacher based in Belfast. Education Ellis studied at St Mary's Grammar School and the Ulster Polytechnic (now Ulster University). He moved to London in 1974 and he gained his master's degree at the Royal College of Art in 1977. As part of his studies there, he won the John Minton Drawing Prize. Early career In the late 1970s, he worked as a teacher, as well as being a clerical officer and mural painter for the Civil Service. In 1979 he became a medical artist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. From 1987 he was shop steward for the Confederation of Health Service Employees at the hospital. Artwork His artistic work includes the Stations of the Cross for St Columba's Roman Catholic Church, Annan, Dumfriesshire (1984), commissions for churches in England, from 1990 and a commissioned self-portrait for the National Collection, Limerick in 1992. His work focuses on aspects of the troubles in Northern Ireland, depicting stylized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Duffy
Rita Duffy (born 1959) is a Northern Ireland artist, described in 2005 as the province's "foremost artist". She describes herself as a Republican, pacifist and feminist. Her installations and projects often highlight socio-political issues and some of her work is in the permanent collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Imperial War Museum in London. Background Rita Duffy was born in Belfast in 1959 to a Catholic family and grew up during the Troubles of the 1970s, in the Protestant neighbourhood of Stranmillis, Belfast. When at college she preferred socially engaged, figurative painting and, during her holidays, she lived in New York City drawing street portraits. Work Duffy describes herself as a Republican, a nationalist, a pacifist and a feminist. She uses irony, wit and humour to interrogate Irish history and politics. Her work is also influenced by surrealism and magic realism. In 2005, Duffy came to wider attention for her proposal to tow an iceberg fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Drury (artist)
Keith Drury (born 1964) is a Northern Ireland artist initially known for oil paintings and for cityscapes created by 3D modelling. Many of his early oil on canvas artworks gained national media attention. He is now best known for his intricate and highly coloured urban landscapes. Life and education Keith Alan Drury was born in the Newtownbreda area of Belfast. Drury’s primary education was at Newtownbreda Primary School and his secondary education was completed at Annadale Grammar School. He went on to graduate from Queen's University Belfast with an Honours degree in Business and Economics (BSSc Hons) before working at Short Brothers and in the National Health Service. Returning to QUB, he graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Theology (BDiv Hons) and became an ordained minister with the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. During this period, Drury was the Minister of May Street Church Belfast and served as a Board Member of Belfast City Centre Management, working with the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
