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Mercy Hunter
Mercy Hunter ''HRUA PPRUA ARCA MBE'' (22 January 1910 – 20 July 1989) was a Northern Irish artist, calligrapher and teacher. Hunter was a founding member of the Ulster Society of Women Artists, where she was later to become president and she was also a past president of the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts. Early life Mercy Hunter was born in Belfast on 22 January 1910, one of five children of William Hunter, a Presbyterian minister, and his Russian-born wife Alice Beyer. Hunter was christened Martha Saie Kathleen, but was always known as Mercy. Her parents served as missionaries in China, with Hunter travelling to Manchuria at the age of four. She spent her childhood there, leaving to attend secondary school in Toronto, Canada, and at Belfast Royal Academy. She went on to attend Belfast College of Art from 1927 to 1929, and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London from 1930 to 1933 where she studied under the calligrapher Edward Johnston. Whilst in London she be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. It is the second-largest city in Ireland (after Dublin), with an estimated population of in , and a Belfast metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of 671,559. First chartered as an English settlement in 1613, the town's early growth was driven by an influx of Scottish people, Scottish Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Presbyterians. Their descendants' disaffection with Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland's Protestant Ascendancy, Anglican establishment contributed to the Irish Rebellion of 1798, rebellion of 1798, and to the Acts of Union 1800, union with Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain in 1800—later regarded as a key to the town's industrial transformation. When granted City status in the United Kingdom#Northern Ireland, city s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal School Dungannon
The Royal School is a mixed boarding school located in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It was one of a number of 'free schools' created by James I of England, James I (otherwise known as James VI of Scotland) in 1608 to provide an education to the sons of local merchants and farmers during the plantation of Ulster. Originally set up in Mountjoy near Lough Neagh in 1614, it moved to its present location in 1636. It was founded as a boys school but became coed in 1986 when the school amalgamated with the Dungannon High School for Girls. It has four 'sister' schools, The Royal School, Armagh in Armagh, County Armagh, The Enniskillen Royal Grammar School in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, The Royal School Cavan in County Cavan, and the Royal and Prior School in Raphoe, County Donegal. The original intention had been to have a "Royal School" in each of Ireland's counties (James I Order in Council read, "that there shall be one Free School at least appointed in every County, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen's University Belfast
The Queen's University of Belfast, commonly known as Queen's University Belfast (; abbreviated Queen's or QUB), is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The university received its charter in 1845 as part of the Queen's University of Ireland and opened four years later, together with University of Galway (as ''Queen's College, Galway'') and University College Cork (as ''Queen's College, Cork''). Queen's offers approximately 300 academic degree programmes at various levels. The current president and Chancellor (education), vice-chancellor is Ian Greer (obstetrician), Ian Greer. The annual income of the institution for 2023–24 was £474.2 million, of which £105.2 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £345.9 million. Queen's is a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, Universities UK and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolyn Mulholland
Carolyn Mulholland '' HRHA'', ''HRUA'' (born 1944) is an Irish sculptor. Life Carolyn Mulholland was born in 1944 in Lurgan, County Armagh. She attended the Belfast College of Art, and in 1965 was awarded the Ulster Arts Club prize for sculpture. A close friend of Seamus Heaney, Mulholland sculpted a portrait bust of Heaney while a student in the 1960s. Mulholland donated a picture to an exhibition to raise funds for victims of civil disturbances in Belfast in the autumn of 1969. The exhibition at Queen's University was organised by Sheelagh Flanagan and showed works by William Scott, Graham Gingles, F E McWilliam, Deborah Brown, Cherith McKinstry, and Mercy Hunter, as well as more than twenty others. The wife of the Northern Irish Secretary of State Colleen Rees was the curator of a personal selection of works from Ulster Artists hosted at the Leeds Playhouse Gallery in 1976. Mulholland's work was among 49 artworks from various artists where she was displayed alongside T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherith McKinstry
Cherith McKinstry (4 March 1928 – October 2004) was an Irish painter and sculptor. Biography Cherith Boyd was born in Powick, Worcestershire to Lilian Goodwin, a nurse, and Arthur Boyd a psychiatric doctor. She was the middle child of three girls. When Cherith was three years old her father moved the family back to his native Ulster where he was to take a post as superintendent at Antrim Mental Hospital. Boyd was taught by a governess until the age of ten, when along with her older sister she was enrolled as a boarder at Ashleigh House in Belfast. At school she befriended Florence McKinstry whose brother she would later marry. Her father died in 1939 and her mother was appointed matron at Ashleigh House in the same year. When World War II broke-out the students were evacuated to Learmount Castle in the Sperrins, where Boyd contracted polio which was to affect her gait for the rest of her life. Her art teacher Romilly Seymour recommended that she train at Belfast College of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Brown
Deborah Brown (27 September 1927 – 8 April 2023) was a Northern Irish sculptor. She is well known in Ireland for her pioneering exploration of the medium of fibre glass in the 1960s and established herself as one of the country's leading sculptors, achieving extensive international acclaim. Early life Deborah Brown was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 27 September 1927. Brown was an only child who became fascinated with nature during childhood years spent in Cushendun in the Glens of Antrim. Her grandmother is credited with encouraging her artwork and supplying her with paints and materials from a young age. In 1934, her family moved to Cushendun into a house designed by Tom Henry, the brother of the painter Paul Henry.''Deborah Brown: from painting to sculpture'', 2005, p. 11 Brown credited her Mother for instilling in her a love of animals, and along with the rural life of picking potatoes, cutting hay and turf, left an indelible mark on her work.''Deborah Brown: from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheelagh Flanagan
Sheelagh Flanagan (25 December 1925 – 3 May 2018) was a Northern Irish actress, costume designer, artist's agent, gallery owner and peace activist. Early life Sheelagh Mabel Garvan was born in Belfast on Christmas Day 1925, the daughter of a local shopkeeper. She left school at the age of fourteen and joined the civil service where she was later promoted to become private secretary to Northern Ireland's Attorney General. Her interest in the performing arts led her to join the Arts Theatre in Belfast. Following an encounter with the theatre director Mary O'Malley, Garvan joined the Lyric Players where she was to meet her future husband who designed sets. In 1959, Garvan married the artist Terence Flanagan. Garvan came from a Unionist family, but converted to Roman Catholicism upon her marriage. Career Flanagan was a skilled dressmaker from a young age and once declined a dressmaking scholarship in London, but after her marriage she became involved in the production of sets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olive Henry
Olive Henry ''HRUA'' (15 January 1902 -8 November 1989) was a Northern Irish artist known for her painting, photography and stained glass design. She was a founding member of the Ulster Society of Women Artists and is believed to have been the only female stained glass artist working in Northern Ireland in the first half of the twentieth century. Early life Olive Henry was born in Belfast on 15 January 1902, the daughter of the tea merchant George Adams Henry. She attended Mount Pottinger National School, and Victoria College, before expanding her studies at night classes at the Belfast School of Art. Henry completed an apprenticeship at Clokey Stained Glass Studios founded by Walter Francis Clokey where she was to work for over fifty years designing stained glass windows. Her appointment in Autumn of 1919 came by a chance visit to Victoria College by the firm's owner who was seeking a suitable apprentice. Henry retired from the firm at Easter 1972. Snoddy suggests that Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romeo Toogood
Romeo Toogood ''ARCA'' ''HRUA'' (6 May 1902- 11 August 1966) was an Ulster artist and teacher who specialized in landscape painting. Early life Romeo Charles Toogood was born in Belfast on 6 May 1902. He was the son of a stone-carver, Charles Toogood, who had moved from England to work on the construction of Belfast City Hall. He was married to Anne in 1932 and had four children, one of whom died at the age of six. Education Toogood received a general education at Hillman Street Public Elementary School until he found work at the age of fourteen as a painter and decorator. Toogood began his professional training at Belfast School of Art in 1922 and graduated in 1925. Between the years 1925 and 1928 Toogood delivered evening classes at the College and amassed £300 which he took to the Royal College of Art in London to continue his studies. His funds did not last the three years that Toogood had intended, therefore he successfully petitioned the College administrators to al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Middleton
Colin Middleton (29 January 1910 – 23 December 1983) was a Northern Irish landscape artist, figure painter, and surrealism, surrealist. Middleton's prolific output in an eclectic variety of modernist styles is characterised by an intense inner vision, augmented by his lifelong interest in documenting the lives of ordinary people. He has been described as 'Ireland's greatest surrealism, surrealist.' Biography Middleton was born in 1910 in Victoria Gardens in north Belfast, the only child of damask designer Charles Middleton. He attended the nearby Belfast Royal Academy until 1927 and then continued his studies with night classes at Belfast School of Art where he trained in design under the Cornish artist Newton Penprase. However Middleton found the college too traditional in outlook, as his first influence, his Father, had been a follower of European Modernism, particularly the Impressionists. Career Middleton showed his first works with the Royal Ulster Academy, Ulster Acade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Blackshaw
Basil Joseph Blackshaw ''HRUA, HRHA'' (July 1932 – 2 May 2016) was a Northern Irish artist specialising in animal paintings, portraits and landscapes and an Academician of the Royal Ulster Academy. Early life and education Born in Glengormley, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and brought up in Boardmills in Lisburn, County Down, he was the son of a professional horse trainer, Englishman Samson Blackshaw and Edith Clayton from Tyrone. Blackshaw attended Methodist College Belfast and studied at Belfast College of Art (1948–1951) under Romeo Toogood. In 1950 Blackshaw joined two of his fellow students, Michael Stewart and Esther Crolly y, as winners of the annual competition for the most outstanding students of the year, in the forty-eighth annual exhibition of the Ulster Arts Club. In 1951 Blackshaw was awarded a scholarship to study in Paris by the Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts. For a number of years after his graduation Blackshaw taught part-time a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Berger Hammerschlag
Alice Berger Hammerschlag née Berger (18 February 1917 – 14 July 1969) was an Austrian artist. She settled in Belfast and while creating abstract paintings also had a number of creative and administrative roles in Northern Ireland. Biography Hammerschlag was born in Vienna and studied art between 1929 and 1938 under Franz Cižek at the Kunstgewerbeschule and at the Vienna Academy of Arts. In 1938 she moved to Belfast, as a refugee on a British government permit for graphic designers, to avoid persecution under the Nazi regime. Her older sister, Trudi, came to Britain with her, but the two appear to have led separate lives once in the UK, with Trudi becoming a linguist and teacher, eventually leading a team at York University in its Language Centre. In Northern Ireland Hammerschlag did design work for commercial publishers and, later, designed theatre sets for the Lyric Theatre Belfast. In 1941 the Ulster Academy of Arts published a portfolio of her lithographs in aid of the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
