Bernard Irwin
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Gallery
Total number of images: 3
- Chyenhal Painting
- Chyenhal Painting No 27
- Chyenhal Painting No 30
Biography
| Bernard’s paintings and ceramics celebrate the joy of seeing. Freely composed, they share through line and colour his pleasure in looking.
One and a half acres of garden surround the studios and are a backdrop to the daily cycle of work and a constant source of inspiration. Selected solo exhibitions 2005 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surry 2004 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh 2002 Dundee Contemporary Art 2001 City of Aberdeen Art Gallery Selected group exhibitions 2009 'Double Vision' 9 collaborative projects. The Exchange, Penzance, Cornwall. Collaboration with Howard Silverman 2008 'Drawing the Line' Hilton Young Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall 2005 Belgrave Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall 2005 The Craft Centre and Design Gallery, City Art Gallery, Leeds 2005 Thompsons -The City Gallery, London 2005 Newlyn Gallery, Lower gallery with Rachel Kantaris and Louise McClary, Cornwall 2004 ‘Critics Choice’ – selected by John Russel Taylor, Art Critic for The Times. Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall 2003 ‘Critics Choice’ – Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall. (Selected by Joan Bakewell, broadcaster & writer.) Training ’75-‘79 Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, BAHons.(!st) 1981 Post Graduate at The Jan Van Eyk Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands Commissions 1997 Weston College Mosaic. Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. 80sq.m. Ceramic pavement, main entrance. Awards 1989 South West Arts Award 1992 Crafts Council Award 1995 South west Arts Training Bursary Residencies Demonstrator and exhibitor at the September 2004 Thomastown Pottery Skills Seminar, Kilkenny, Ireland. Organised by the Craft Potters Society of Ireland. Collections University of Warwick City of Aberdeen Publications Crafts Council – Buyers Guide to contemporary British Studio Ceramics The Extruder Book – Daryl E Baird – The American Ceramic Society |
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