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Rosie McGurran

Read an interview with Rosie McGurran about her work and his recent solo exhibition 'Corners of Time' at Gallery 545.
Rosie McGurran is a member of the Royal Ulster Academy and an award-winning artist. McGurran's work, suspended between fantasy and reality, has been dominated by images of Roundstone, which can act as a protagonist or a backdrop. Her paintings tell stories of people and places inspired by the history of the village, as well as autobiographical elements. More recently, the artist has turned her attention back to Belfast. She has created a new body of work bearing references and suggesting narratives connected to the city and experiences of her...

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McGurran has extensively exhibited nationally and internationally, and her paintings are held in numerous private, corporate and public collections across Ireland. Originally from Belfast, she now lives and works between her ‘two homes’, her hometown and the village of Roundstone in the West of Ireland, where she has also established an annual international residency (Inishlacken Project).

EDUCATION

1997-98 Arts Council of Northern Ireland Fellowship to the British School at Rome, Italy
1994 Certificate, Women in the Arts NOW, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1992 Degree (Hons) in Fine Art Painting, University of Ulster, Belfast, N. Ireland
1991 Glasgow School of Art, student exchange

AWARDS

2016 Failte Ireland Community/Diaspora Award, Ireland
2011 Elevated to full membership of the Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast
2007 The Conor Prize, Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast
2004 The Millls Selig Award, Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast
1997 The Victor Treacy Award, The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
1994 Belfast 1991 Award, Belfast
1994 The Ulster Arts Club Award, N. Ireland
1992 The Daler-Rowney Painting Prize, Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, Belfast

COMMISSIONS

Look it’s a Woman Writer, book cover, Arlen Press, Ireland, 2021
National Self-Portrait of Ireland Commission, 2010
Portrait of Michael Longley, commissioned Clifden Arts Festival, Clifden, Ireland, 2009
Arts Council of Ireland Commissions Award, 2004

ART IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Civil Service
Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast, N. Ireland
Ulster Television, Belfast, N. Ireland
National Collection of Ireland, Dublin
National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland, Limerick, Ireland
National University of Ireland, Galway
Farmleigh House, Dublin
Galway City Council, Ireland
Galway County Council, Ireland
Irish National Teachers Organisation, Dublin
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland
Our Lady’s Hospice, Dublin
BMI Airlines, U.K.

SELECTED ANNUAL EXHIBITIONS

2020 ‘When the Tide Turned’, Fermanagh Live Arts Festival, Co. Fermanagh, N. Ireland
2019 ‘Between Worlds, the Door to the Stolen Days’, Artisann Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland
2018 Whitney Modern Gallery, Los Gatos, San Francisco, US
2018 ‘Scan the Sky for Swallows’, Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
2012 ‘Ghosts of Inishlacken’, The Gerard Dillon Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland
2011 ‘The Gathering’, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland
2009 ‘Cathedral of Stones’, The Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2005, Tulca Festival, Galway, Ireland
2004 ‘Drawing from Experience’, Clotworthy House Arts Centre, Antrim, N. Ireland
2001 ‘Another Story’, The British Embassy, Reykjavik, Iceland
2000 The Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland
2000 The Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, N. Ireland
1999 ‘Sleepwalker’, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1998 The British School at Rome, Italy

SELECTED RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 – 1992 Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Belfast, N. Ireland
2021, 2020, 2017, 2016 Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
2021, 2020, 2019 Gallery 545 Group Exhibition, Belfast, N. Ireland
2017, 2016 Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon, Ireland
2016 ‘The Look of the Irish’, Glebe House, Donegal, Ireland
2014 Limerick City of Culture, Limerick, Ireland
2012 Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, N. Ireland
2011 The Inishlacken Project at the Gerard Dillon Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland
2010 ‘Flow’, touring exhibition, Office of Public Works, Ireland
2009 The Joan Lukas Rothenberg Gallery, Syracuse, New York, US
2006 The Naughton Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland
2005 Indiana University, US
2004 Gallerie Fauodic, Lorient, France
1998 The British Embassy, Rome

RESIDENCIES

2022 Casale Flaminia, Umbria, Italy
2010 BAS Studios, Brooklyn, New York, US
2013 Ballinskelligs, Cill Rialaig, County Kerry, Ireland
2013 C.R.E.T.A. Rome, Italy
2008 Dunmoochin Foundation, Victoria, Australia
2008 BAS Studios, Brooklyn, New York, US
2006 The Arthur Boyd Centre, NSW, Australia
2001 The British Embassy, Reykjavik, Iceland
2010 Roundstone Arts Festival, Roundstone, Ireland
1997-98 The British School at Rome, Italy
1995-96 Royal Victoria Maternity Hospital, Belfast, N. Ireland
1994-95 Belfast Health Trust, N. Ireland
1994 Clotworthy House Arts Centre, Antrim, N. Ireland

ART-RELATED EXPERIENCE (selected)

2001 – present Founder and Director of the Inishlacken Project, Ireland. Annual international residency and exhibition programme. More than one hundred artists from different countries around the world were invited to work on Inishlacken island over the past years. Here they had the opportunity to develop their practice and later to showcase their art in exhibitions at galleries across Ireland.
2012 – present Curator, Roundstone Culture Night, Roudstone, Ireland

SELECTED FEATURES

‘Rosie McGurran’, Interview, Collapse the Box Series, Northern Vision TV, 2021 (Northern Ireland) https://www.nvtv.co.uk/shows/collapse-the-box-rosie-mcgurran-2/
Inside the Inishlacken Project, Documentary, RTE Lyric Feature, 1 April 2021 (Ireland) https://www.rte.ie/culture/2021/0331/1207259-inside-the-inishlacken-project-lyric-feature/
Rosie McGurran, ‘Bringing artists back to the island of Inishlacken’, Irish Times, 15 June 2019 (Ireland) https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/bringing-artists-back-to-the-island-of-inishlacken-1.3915454

Selected Recognitions

Member of the Royal Ulster Academy
Award-winning artist (incl. the Conor Prize, RUA)
Artworks in public collections (incl. Arts Council of Northern Ireland, National Colleciton of Ireland)

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