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Maria Perry

Maria Perry is a very talented painter. She graduated from the University of Ulster with a BA Hons in Fine and Applied Arts. On graduating she was awarded an Art Prize by the Spires Gallery and started exhibiting in Northern Ireland.

After a career break to travel and raise her young family, in recent years she has further developed her painting practice. She has exhibited her work across Ireland and further afield and has worked alongside interior designers and private clients. Her artworks are now held in private, corporate, and public collections, locally and internationally.

Perry creates atmospheric landscape paintings drawing inspiration from the rugged Irish coastline and dramatic...

Maria Perry is a very talented painter. She graduated from the University of Ulster with a BA Hons in Fine and Applied Arts. On graduating she was awarded an Art Prize by the Spires Gallery and started exhibiting in Northern Ireland.

After a career break to travel and raise her young family, in recent years she has further developed her painting practice. She has exhibited her work across Ireland and further afield and has worked alongside interior designers and private clients. Her artworks are now held in private, corporate, and public collections, locally and internationally.

Perry creates atmospheric landscape paintings drawing inspiration from the rugged Irish coastline and dramatic sea views. The fluctuations between flatness and depth, abstraction and representation, the contrast between light and dark, and the process of painting itself, all play important roles in her work. She hopes to convey a sense and feeling of a place rather than an exact visual representation.

Bio

BASED IN Lisburn (originally from Belfast), Northern Ireland

EDUCATION

2003 BA Honours Degree, in Fine Art, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2000 Certificate in Foundation Studies in Art and Design, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland

AWARDS

2003 Spires Art Award, Spires Art Gallery, Omagh, Northern Ireland

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 ‘Ireland’, Black Box, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2022 ‘Exploring the Island’, Malone House, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2019 ‘Belfast City’, John Hewitt Bar, Belfast, Northern Ireland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Yard Gallery, Holywood, Northern Ireland
2023 Bi-annual Exhibitions with interior designers Cohen & Co at venues around Ireland.
2023 Yard Gallery, Holywood, Northern Ireland
2023 2020 Art, Whitehead, Northern Ireland
2022 Yard Gallery, Holywood, Northern Ireland
2021 Oscar and Oscar, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2019 ‘By the Sea’ Exhibition, Marine Court Hotel, Bangor, Northern Ireland
2004 2003 ‘Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition’, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2003 Spires Art Gallery, Omagh, Northern Ireland

COLLECTIONS

University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland (public)
RPS Group, Belfast, Northern Ireland (corporate)
A.C. Technical Services, Canada, Toronto (corporate)
Northern Soul, New Jersey, USA (corporate)
Private Collections

Selected Recognitions

Artworks in public collections
Extensively exhibited in Northern Ireland
Represented by local and international galleries (including Saatchi Art Online)

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