Featured on The Spark

I was delighted this week to have my work on The Spark. The Spark promotes Irish arts and culture and has a a lot on the site covering visual art such as painting, illustration, film and photography and they promote dance, music and poetry. They contacted me during the first week of the Pallas show and asked if I'd like to have some of my work on the site, there's a little about me and the work and 4 images of my work.

Here's a link to my page - https://thespark.ie/pat-byrne/

From Times of Old, Oil on Canvas, 2017, one of my paintings featured on The Spark

2 Paintings in New York

I have 2 paintings going on display this week in a group exhibition at Field Projects Gallery in New York. The exhibition opens on Thursday the 5th of May at 6pm and runs until June 11th. Jesse David Penridge is curating the exhibition and there are 13 of us exhibiting in the show titled Signaling to ^ the Cipher ^ Towards a Segway. The 2 paintings that I have in Field Projects are below:

Half in the World of Form, Oil on Canvas, 55cm x 35cm, 2015

Red, Oil on Canvas, 17cm x 16cm, 2015

This link goes to the gallery website page for the show, it has all exhibiting artists listed and a brief about the theme of the show - Field Projects Gallery.

The Mountrath Residency, Co. Laois

I started this residency on the first week of April 2011. Since moving into the studio and flat I've been quite busy. About two weeks after moving in I started assisting Vera McEvoy with the Culture Bug adult art workshops in the Arthouse, Stradbally Co. Laois. These ran up until the end of June where they concluded with an exhibition in the Arthouse Gallery. The Summer Arts Programme ran for the month of July. This involved art workshops for children. From the 11th of July to 15th I was back out in Stradbally assisting Vera  and from the 25th to 29th I was in St. Francis School, Portlaoise, with Conor Brennan and Debbie O'Reilly.

In terms of Exhibitions I have been fairly busy too. Since the 1st of July I have exhibited in Galway Arts Centre and a vacant building in Mountrath. This was a pretty big show personally because it was my first experience curating a group show and it went very well. It consisted of 10 Laois based artists and was opened by Assistant Laois Arts Officer Bridie Keenan. I'll be putting up more information and documentation at a later point. Upcoming shows include a group show in the Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise, my first solo-exhibition in Leixlip Library Gallery, Leixlip, Co. Kildare, another group exhibition in Galway, a piece in the Darklight Festival in Dublin (13th of November, just a quick update to this section. This exhibition at Galway Arts Centre didn't go ahead after, when I originally published this post the exhibition itself was only in the proposal stages and I was asked to show some work in it alongside some Galway artists but for reasons I don't know it never went through, and the Dublin show didn't go ahead either as there was a mix up with funding and the gallery who was running the exhibition.)   and then myself and the 4 artists in Stradbally are collaborating on a light installation for the Electric Picnic.

After that I want to concentrate on my studio work for a while because I have been so busy with other bits and pieces that the studio came to a stand still around the 1st of July.

Just Set up a Blog

Just got this blog set up yesterday so real quick, I'm a Laois based Artist, about a month ago recieved a studio from Laois Arts Council, studied at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, I have a solo show opening on 13th of August in Leixlip. I have a webpage setup at cargocollective.com/patbyrne, and a vimeo page if anyone wants a look at what I'm up to.