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Diarmuid Delargy

Born in Belfast, 1958

1978-81 B.A. hons. Fine Art, College of Art & Design, the Ulster Polytechnic
198 -83   The Slade School of Art, (M.A Fine Art) 1999
1999        Elected member of Aosdana.
2005        Elected Associate Member of The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, Bankside,London

One Person Exhibitions

2008       New Paintings, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon
2007       Selected One Person Exhibition. Belfast Print Workshop. 2006
2006      ‘The Beckett Suite’ Galway Arts Centre
               ‘The Beckett Suite’ Irish Arts Centre, New York
               ‘The Beckett Suite’ Fendereskey Gallery at Queen’s, Belfast
               ‘The Beckett Suite’, Portora Royal School, Enniskillen
2005       ‘The Beckett Suite’ Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2004       ‘Ur n Series’, Taylor Galleries, Dublin 2003
2003      ‘Nudes’ Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
2002        New Paintings from the ‘Art and Extinction’ Series, Dunamaise Art Centre, Portlaoise
2001-02 Beckett Series, the Model and Niland Gallery, Sligo
1998        Beckett Series, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny 1996
1996       Beckett’ work in progress, Fendereskey Gallery at Queen’s, Belfast
1994       ‘New Paintings’ Fenderesky Gallery at Queen’s, Belfast
                Taylor Galleries, Dublin
               ‘Prints and Paintings’, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
1991        Fenderesky Gallery at Queen’s, Belfast
1989        Orchard Gallery, Derry
1988/89   Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
1988        Taylor Galleries, Dublin
1987        Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
1985        Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
1984        Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast

Two Person Exhibitions

2004       ‘Two Sligo Painters’ Kenny Gallery, Galway Arts Festival with Sean Mc Sweeney.
1996        ‘A decade of Prints ’86 –’96 ‘, Delargy, Monreal: Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin/
                Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast/ Model Arts Centre, Sligo/ Limerick University

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007        25-25 Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
                 Annual RHA Exhibition
                 ‘Works on paper’ Group Show, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
                 Taylor Gallery, Summer Exhibition
2006         Annual RHA Exhibition
                 Annual Show Bankside Gallery, London
                 25-25 Naughton Gallery Queen’s University Belfast
                 ‘Group Show’, FendereskyGallery, Belfast
                 Artists Summer Exhibition, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
2005        ‘Group Show’ Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
                 Boyle Arts Festival.
                 Bankside Gallery London
                 Northern Artists, Cavanacor Gallery, Lifford Annual Exhibition
2004 -
2005        ‘The Other Place’ an international exhibition , online and installation.
                 The Peter Froggat Centre, Queen’s University ,Belfast
2004         Proiseact Nan Ealan , Touring Exhibition.
                 RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin
                 RUA Annual Exhibition, Belfast
2003         Dye House Gallery, Waterford
                 RHA Annual Exhibition
                 Impressions - An Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, touring exhibition.
                 Ballinglen: The Artist in Rural Ireland, Mayo General Hospital.
                 Proiseact Nan Ealan, Glasgow Museum of Modern Art and Virginia, USA.
2002        The Holy Show’, Chester Beatty Library/Gallery, Dublin Castle.
                 ‘Line/Exploration’, Lavitt Gallery, Cork.
                 'New Works on Paper’, Selected Group Show, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
                 Selected Group Show, Vanguard Gallery, Cork.
                 ‘The Graeve Collection’, The Model and Niland Gallery, Sligo
2001        ‘Seven Irish Artists’, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, U.S.A.
                 ‘Estampe’ International Print Exchange, Galerie Michele Broutta,Paris
                 McSweeney and Friends, Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon
                 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art- Rental, San Fransisco , U.S.A.
                 Claudia Chapline Gallery, Steenson Beach, San Francisco, U.S.A.
                 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, San Francisco, U.S.A.
                 Friends of Basil Blackshaw, Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon
                 Selected Group Show, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
1999         Ballinglen Arts Foundation Show, the New Hampshire Institute of Art, U.S.A.
                 B.P.W. Group Exhibition, Munich, Germany
1998         Selected Group Show Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
                 Arts Council, Belfast Print Workshop, Touring Show
                 Response to Poetry Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
                 Selector and Exhibiter for R.H.A. Banquet Exhibition, Dublin
                 ‘Cruelty’ Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
1997        Dunfermline Print Workshop, Scotland
                 Boyle Arts festival
                 Landscape and Recollection: The Ballinglen Experience, the Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
1996         Temple Bar Print International Show, Temple Bar, Dublin
                 ‘BPW at OBG’ selected print show, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
1995        Exhibition of Lithography, Tiederholm, Sweden
                 Group Show, Fendereskey Gallery at Queen’s, Belfast
                 Sligo Arts Festival
                 Poetic Land, Political Territory, Touring 7 venues throughout Britain
                 The Print Initiative: Dept. of Art & Gaeltacht, Dublin
                 Belfast Print Workshop at Kunstler haus Bethanien, Berlin
1994        3 person show, Prospectus Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.
                 Philadelphia Art Alliance, U.S.A.
                 Margo Dolan-Maxwell Gallery, London
1993        ‘Living Landscapes 1993-A Selection of Prints’, W.Cork Arts Centre, Skibereen
                 Arts Council of N.Ireland Print Show, Belfast
                 Fendereskey Gallery at Queen’s, Group Show, Belfast
                 Trinity College Dublin Collection, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
1992        Fendereskey Gallery Group Show, Belfast
                 Trinity College Dublin Collection, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
1991        Collaboration ‘Prints Exhibition’ with Alphonso Monreal, Mexico
                 Sligo Arts Centre, 3 Person Exhibition with Colin Mc Gookin & Dermot Seymour
                 The Great Book of Ireland (A Work on Vellum):Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
                 Ulster Museum, Belfast
                 Large Format European Print Exhibition, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin as part of Dublin
                 European City of Culture 1991 celebrations.
                 Group Show, Fendereskey Galley at Queen’s, Belfast
                 'The Fifth Province, Some Contemporary Irish Art’,
                 Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
1990        Contemporary Art,Fendereskey Gallery at Queen’s, Belfast
                 ‘Masks of Transformation’ group Exhibition, Abbey theatre, Dublin
                 (Organised by Brian McAvera )
                 Art Cologne ’90, Cologne, W.Germany (through Fendereskey Gallery)
                 ‘Living Landscape’ Touring Exhibition selected by Micky Donnell
1989         Orchard Gallery, Derry
1988        Kilala, Co. Mayo – Summer School
                 GPA Exhibition of Ulster Art in the 80’s, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
                 ATR Cologne ’88, Cologne, W. Germany (through Fendereskey Gallery)
1987        ‘Directions Out’, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin Contrasts – works on paper by 7 artists from N. Ireland:
                 assisted by The British Council and Fung Ping Shan Museum, Hong Kong.
                 Collaboration ‘Prints Exhibition’ with Alphonso Monreal, Fendersekey Gallery, Belfast
                 40 Works on Paper, Raab Gallery, London / Berlin
                 Landscape Now, Fendereskey Gallery, Belfast
1986        Enniskillen Arts Centre with Fergus Delargy
1985         Two Living Generations, Northern Irish Art, London Art Fair and Fendereskey Gallery, Belfast
                 Contemporary Northern Irish Prints, Kornhaus Gallery, Weingarten, W.Germany
1984         Senefelder Exhibition for Lithograph, Offenbach, W.Germany
                 New Artists – New Works’, Orchard Gallery, Derry
                 14 Artists from Belfast, Zacatecas & Mexico City, Mexico
1983         Whitechapel Open Exhibition, London
1980 -85 Listowel Print Biennial, Listowel, Ireland

Awards

1999        Elected to Aosdana Art Council of N.Ireland, Bursary 1997
1998        Arts Council of N. Ireland Bursary
1997        Art Council Dublin, Major Award
1993        Ballinglen Arts Foundation Residency, Co. Mayo
                Arts Council of N. Ireland Bursary
1992        Ballinglen Arts Foundation Residency, Co. Mayo
1991-92 Arts Council of N. Ireland Bursary
1991        Gold Medal Winner, Large Format European Print Exhibition, Dublin
1987-89 Artist in Residence, Belfast Print Workshop, Arts Council of N. Ireland
1985       Arts Council of N. Ireland Bursary to work in Berlin

Teaching Posts

2002-03   Visiting Lecturer GMIT
1997-
2001        External Examiner at Limerick College of Art
1990-91 University of Ulster at Belfast , Part-time lecturer in Printmaking
1989        Crawford Municipal College of Art, Cork
1985-87 Regional Technical College, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal

Publications

2002        ‘Hard Drive’, A collaborative book with poet Paul Muldoon, New York, U.S.A.
                ‘Leabhar Mor’, collaboration between artists and Gaelic poets from both Scotland and Ireland.
                Prints from the Old Testament -Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle
1998        Ireland of the Welcomes, Dublin
1997        Landscapes and Recollection, Ballinglen Experience
1996        A Decade of Prints 1986 –96, Delargy and Monreal
1995        Dept of Environment - Poetic Land - Political Territory NCCA (Sunderland)
1992        Book cover ‘The Fallen’ by John McKenna, Blackstaff Press
1989        Diarmuid Delargy Orchard Gallery Catalogue

Collections

Arts Council of England, Hayward Collection
Arts Council of N. Ireland
Trinity College, Dublin
The National Self-Portrait Collection, Limerick
University College London, Slade School of Fine Art
Museum of Fine Art, Zacatecas , Mexico
Department of the Environment Collection, Northern Ireland
Ulster Museum Collection, Belfast
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig , Co. Monaghan
Douglas Hyde Collection
Office of Public Works (Attorney General) Dublin
Boyle Arts Permanent Collection, County Roscommon
Ballinglen Arts Foundation Permanent   Collection, County Mayo
Ulster Television Collection, Belfast
St Luke’s Hospital Collection , Dublin
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Queen’s University Collection,Belfast
Seamus Heaney, Private Collection
Michael Longley, Private Collection
Pat McCabe, Private Collection
Ciaran Carson , Private Collection
Dermot Healy, Private Collection