Bernard Irwin
Bernard Irwin

Gallery

Total number of images: 6

Touch this or that
  • Touch this or that
the whole day long
  • the whole day long
Night Garden - Dreaming 2
  • Night Garden - Dreaming 2
Night Garden - Dreaming 1
  • Night Garden - Dreaming 1
untitled
  • untitled
untitled
  • untitled

Biography

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
2010 The Courtyard Center for the Arts, Hereford
2005 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surry
2004 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 Dundee Contemporary Art
2001 City of Aberdeen Art Gallery

Selected group exhibitions
2011 'PRINT!' The Exchange, Penzance
'Summer Waves' Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
'Uncharted Landscapes' Mariners Gallery, St. Ives
2009 'Double Vision' 9 collaborative projects. The Exchange, Penzance, Cornwall.
Collaboration with Howard Silverman
2008 'Drawing the Line' Hilton Young Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2007 'Lineage' Newlyn Art Gallery
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.)

Curation
2011 'PRINT!' with Jesse Leroy Smith, The Exchange, Penzance. A major survey of
print in Cornwall past and present.
2007 'Lineage' with Marion Taylor. Newlyn Gallery, Newlyn

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
Private collections

Contact Info

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