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Rosie McGurran

WORKING In Belfast (Northern Irealnd) and Roundstone (West of Ireland)

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

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 'Corners of Time', Gallery 545, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2022 'All My Lives', Artisann Gallery, Belfast
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

2023, 2022, 2020, 2019 ‘Gallery 545: Contemporary Art of Northern Ireland #1, #2, #3, #4’, Gallery 545 at the Island Arts Centre, Lisburn (2022), Gallery 545 Online (2020), Gallery 545 at the Sea Holly Gallery, Belfast (2019), N. Ireland
2022 – 1992 Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Belfast, N. Ireland
2021, 2020, 2017, 2016 Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
2021, 2020 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

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

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 Collection of Ireland)

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