Clifford Collie
Collie, Clifford
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CLIFFORD COLLIE
CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Sequia, Solomon Gallery, Dublin
2001 Stories of Giving, Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin
1997 The Things of Ghosts, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1995 Roads Through Mountains, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1993 Terra Canto, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1991 In The Silence, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
1991 Centre, Berkeley Gallery, Kilkenny
1988 2, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
1989 2, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2005, 04, 03 Solomon Gallery, Dublin
2005, 04 Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
2005, 04, 03, 86 RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Dublin
2004 Cananacor Gallery, Donegal
2004,99 Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon
2004, 03 CASE, Cork Arts Society, Cork
2003,01,00,99,98,96 IONTAS, Sligo
2003 Vision Ireland, Dublin
RHA, Gala Banquet, Dublin
2002 RHA Annual Exhibition (Invited Artist), RHA, Dublin
2002, 94, 89, 88 Temple Bar Gallery, Gallery
2001 Paul Kane, Dublin
2000, 97,96 Gateway To Art, Aer Rianta Arts Festival, Dublin Airport
1999 Irish Art, Tonya Turner Carroll, New Mexico
1998, 97, 95, 91 Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1995 6 Artists, Barcelona
Richard De Marco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1993 Backcombe Gallery, Cork
Irish Contemporary Arts Society, Dublin
1991 Claremorris Open, Co. Mayo
The Great Book Of Ireland
Trashu Triosi, Wales
1989 SHOWCASE, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin
Sculpture Open, RHA, Dublin
Belltable, Limerick
1988 Premiere 4 Painters, Christchurch, Dublin
1984 Independent Artists Dublin/Belfast
1983 The Works, Grapevine Arts Centre, Dublin
Exposure 3, Irish Life Centre, Dublin
1982 CDL National Art Competition
AWARDS
1991 Arts Flight Arts Council Ireland
1990 Material Grant Arts Council Ireland
1982 Merit Award CDL National Art Competition
WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bank Of Ireland
OPW / Government Buildings
Irish Life
Contemporary Irish Arts Society
KPMG Ireland
National Irish Bank
Maurice And Marie Foley Collection (Ex. Chairman of Irish Museum of Modern Art )
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Dublin in 1960, Clifford Collie attended the National College of Art and Design, Dublin from 1980-1982. He was a full member of Temple Bar Gallery and Studios between 1987 and 1992. Clifford has spent the last fourteen years living and working between Ireland and Spain. This dual habitation has been an important nutritive element in his response to ‘Painting’.
Clifford Collie subject matter, style and methods of working are bound up in his personalised vision, which is based on his understanding of nature and self. Clifford paints as an exploratory and emotive response to nature and to the world he lives in.
“As a Painter I try to capture a particular event be it only a glimpse of that event and provoke it to a level where it become a metaphor or allegory”. Clifford Collie, 2006
“As with many of the great Spanish artists – Murillo, Zurbaran, Ribero, El Greco – the paintings of Goya are often fringed by a deep, enveloping darkness. Most of Clifford Clollie’s recent paintings are similarly articulated against a velvety darkness. They mediate between the unseen, the unknown, and the waking world of reasoned perception With care and even tenderness, they evoke lustrous, ambiguous forms that both invite and confound interpertation.” Aidan Dunne, Art Critic, 2006
Clifford collie has exhibited extensively over the last 20 years both at home and abroad and is a regular exhibitor at the Royal Hibernian Academy. Clifford Collie’s work is included in many Irish and international private and public collections including Bank of Ireland, Office of Public Works, Irish Life, Contemporary Irish Arts Society, Stokes Kennedy Crowley, National Irish Bank and the Maurice and Marie Foley Collection.
