Rosaleen Davey (born 1947) is an Irish visual artist.

Biography

Rosaleen Davey was born 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 1947. She has lived in

Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

since the 1970s. Davey studied at the Ulster College of Art in Belfast and at

Leeds University The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed ...

. Davey studied with Colin Harrison. She has taught painting at the

National College of Art and Design The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) is Ireland's oldest art institution, offering the largest range of art and design degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the country. Originating as a drawing school in 1746, many of t ...

. Davey creates figurative or abstract. Her works have been exhibited in a number of galleries in Ireland such as the Ayesha Castle Gallery, County Dublin in 1997, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny in 1996 and the Caldwell Gallery, Dublin in 1982. She has also exhibited at the Cavanacor Gallery, Taylor Galleries, Fenderesky Gallery, the RHA, the

Irish Museum of Modern Art The Irish Museum of Modern Art (), also known as IMMA, is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art. It is located in Kilmainham, Dublin. History Irish art collector Gordon Lam ...

and

Crawford Art Gallery The Crawford Art Gallery () is a public Art museum, art gallery and museum in the city of Cork (city), Cork, Ireland. Known informally as the Crawford, it was designated a 'National Cultural Institution' in 2006. It is "dedicated to the visual ar ...

. Davey's work is included in Irish public collections.

Sources

1947 births Living people Artists from Belfast 20th-century Irish painters 21st-century Irish painters {{Ireland-bio-stub