About John O'Grady
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Education
1989 - 1992
Cheltenham College of Art
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Event: Meditations in Time of Civil War
Dates: 15 Jun 2021 - 15 Jul 2021
Invited artists
Event: Among Schoolchildren
Dates: 13 Jun 2020 - 13 Jul 2020
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Event: Nineteen Nineteen
Dates: 1 Jun 2019 - 31 Aug 2019
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Event: ‘Crazy Jane’,
Dates: 1 Mar 2017 - 30 Apr 2017
Group show invited artists, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
Event: 2016 - ‘A Terrible Beauty is Born’, Group show invited artists, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
Dates: 1 Aug 2016 - 30 Aug 2016
Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
Event: 'Republic',
Dates: 1 Aug 2016 - 30 Sep 2016
2016 - Summer group exhibition co-curated with Eoin Mac Lochlain, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin Ireland
Event: Summer exhibition
Dates: 1 Jul 2015 - 31 Aug 2015
Group Exhibition
Event: 'The Lighthouse' Tondo exhibition' 2013
Dates: 1 Jun 2013 - 1 Jul 2013
Group work on show from the Art collective 'Tondo'
Biography
How can I make tangible on a paint surface a world that is full of magic and poetry? My finished pieces do not mirror a subject matter but are a representation of emotions felt in a specific time or place. Often the fleeting effect of a particular light and colour in nature are held somewhere in my visual memory. At some point, this takes centre stage on the painting I am working on. It may appear during the process of creation without an obvious connection to the subject matter at hand and yet, it adds another dimension, a particular atmosphere. These processes are ways and means by which I express my connection to nature in all its richness and variety.
I hold a Bachelor Degree in Fine Art (BFA). My work is in collections in France, the USA, Great Britain and Ireland.
