Padraic Reaney

Pádraic Reaney was born in Carraroe, Co. Galway in 1952. He studied Fine Art at Galway, Regional Technical College encouraged by the well-known sculptor Oisín Kelly and has been a full-time artist since leaving college. He painted for several years in Galway; later he built a studio in Moycullen, where he now lives and works. He has exhibited extensively in Ireland, Scotland and Wales and his work is in public and private collections in Ireland as well as in Europe, Canada, USA, Brazil, Japan, South Africa and Australia. His work is held in collections such as the Modern Irish Art Collection; Dublin Writers Museum, Ireland; Irish Embassy, London; Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, Quinnipiac University, USA; Siena Art Institute, Italy; Urawa Wood-Cut Prints Association, Japan. 

Exhibitions

2019 Inis Airc, Hardiman Research Building Exhibition, 

NUIG (Invited Artist) 

2018 

Inishark Project, The Kenny Art Gallery Galway. 

Inishark, Annual Heinrich Boll Weekend, 

Achil Island, Co.Mayo. 

Inishark, Creel Café, Westport, Co. Mayo. 

2017 

Inishark, Doonreagan, Cashel, Co. Galway, 

2016 Ros an Mhil, 1997 – 1983, Coole Park, 

Co. Galway. 

2015 

Crazy Lane, Gort Public Library, Gort, Co. Galway. 2015-2016 

Crazy Jane, Hyde Bridge Gallery(Yeats Society) Sligo, 

Crazy Jane Clifden Arts Festivel, Clifden Co Galway. 

Crazy Jane, Kenny Art Gallery, Galway. 

Crazy Jane, Sole art gallery, Dublin. 

Crazy Jane Exhibition of Graphics, Coole Park, Co. Galway. 

2011 Ros an Mhil, 1997 – 1983, The Tourist Centre, Oughterard, Co. Galway. 

Ros an Mhíl, 1979 – 1983 Connemara National Park, 

Letterfrack, Co. Galway. 

2009 Paintings and Graphics, Arts and Cultural Centre, 

Inisheer Aran Islands, Co. Galway 

2008 Ros an Mhil, 1997 – 1983, The Galway City Museum, Galway. 

2011, 08,02, 00, 98, 97, 95. The Kenny Gallery, Galway. 

2005 PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE , THE GALLERY, TUAM, CO. GALWAY. 

Monuments of Inis Mór, Connemara National Park, 

Letterfrack, Co. Galway 

Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 

Eigse An Spidéil 2005, Spidéal, Co. na Gaillimhe. 

(INVITED ARTIST) 

2003-04 Crazy Jane, Galway Arts Centre, Galway. 

2002 Exhibition of Graphics, Glyn Y Weddw Art Gallery, Wales. 

Exhibition of Graphics, Harlech, Nr. Wales. 

Painting/Sculpture , Castlekirk, Isle of Arran, Scotland. 

Tribes of Galway Féile 2002, Town Hall, Galway. 

2001 Ros an Mhíl , Carraroe, Co. Galway. 

2019 

Coming Home Art and the Great Hunger, Derry. 

2018 

International Art exhibition,Alba Iulia-history and 

multiculturalism, Romania. 

XXVth National Art exhibition “100” Romania. 

Art of Protest, Kenny Art Gallery, Galway. 

Clifden Arts Festivel, Clifden, Co Galway. 

Coming Home Art and the Great Hunger, Dublin Castle, Dublin. 

Coming Home Art and the Great Hunger, Uillinn, West Cork. 

An Irish Airman Foresees his Death’ Hamilton Gallery, Sligo. 

(Invited Artist) 

2017 

The 16th Lessedra World Art Print Annual — Mini Print 2017 Sofia, Bulgaria. 

Crazy Jane, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo. (invited artist) 

Clifden Arts Festivel, Clifden, Co Galway. 

2016 

Comóradh, 1916 Rising-Themed Artwork, Kenny Gallery,Galway 

EP’16 Galway Print Studio, Galway. (invited artist) 

Sculpture for Galway, Kenny Art Gallery, Galway. 

Clifden Arts Festivel, Clifden, Co Galway. 

2015 Kennys 1940-2015, Kenny Gallery, Galway. 

M’áit Dhúchais (My Native Please), Oughterard Courthouse, Co. Galway. 

Courthouse opening Exhibition, Oughterard, Co. Galway. 

14th Lessedra World Art Print Annual Mini Print 2015 Bulgaria. 

Galway Print Studio, Exhibition, Galway. 

2014 Barbara Stanley Gallery, London. 

Greenacres Wexford Festival Opera Exhibition, Wexford. 

Summer Exhibition Cong Art Gallery, Cong, 

Reaney’s international reputation has grown over the years, and in particular his work on The Táin and his interpretation of the legacy of An Gorta Mór/The Great Irish Famine have won him wide critical acclaim as a key figure in contemporary Irish visual arts. He represented Ireland in the XVIth Grand Prix International d’Arts Contemporain de Monte Carlo in 1982. A film was made of one of his exhibitions based on The Táin, which was R.T.É.’s entry in the Pan Celtic International Film Festival for 1988 – it was one of the three top films in the festival. In 1996 he was invited to Scotland by the North Ayrshire Council to undertake a series of exhibitions on the Isles and the West Coast of Scotland.

Work in Ireland
A founder member of Western Artists, Island Connection, and Drimcong Press (with Brian Bourke and Jay Murphy), Reaney was awarded the Pádraic Mac Con Midhe Prize at the Oireachtas in 1979 to make a series of etchings recording the rapidly disappearing thatched houses in Ros an Mhíl, Connemara. He later exhibited a series of photographs based on this work of the ruined cottages in Ros an Mhíl (1979-1983) at the Galway City Museum, July-October 2008. Reaney was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Galway Arts Centre in 1996 and served on the Board until 1999.

Reaney was commissioned to design the Liam Ó Flaherty Commemorative Garden on Inishmore, Aran and to create a piece of bronze sculpture for the garden which was unveiled by Minister Eamon Ó Cuív when the garden was officially opened. Also in 2006, Reaney curated the successful Project 06 Exhibition, The Irish Eye in the Kenny Gallery. In 2007 he curated The Oliver Gogarty 50th Anniversary Art Exhibition, at the Renvyle House Hotel.

His Lawrencetown piece, which was commissioned by the Galway County Council, is a seven- foot bronze piece depicting the story of Diarmaid and Gráinne. He was commissioned by the Galway Chamber of Commerce to design the Paddy Ryan Memorial Medal which was presented to the speaker at the first Paddy Ryan Memorial Lecture at NUI Galway in 2007. He has also had work commissioned from the Irish National Parks & Wildlife Service over the years. His work is in great demand for book covers and illustrations, and he has recently created a series of striking wall hangings done in the studio of V’Soske Joyce, now Dixons Carpets, Connemara.

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