/Art Galleries/Clifford Collie 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 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. This is Clifford’s first solo exhibition at the Solomon Gallery.
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