Helena Gorey lives in the small rural towland of Burnchurch in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Her home is a cottage situated in pastoral landscape close to where she grew up with a view to a field with an almost perfect horizon line. One of her earliest memories is picking blackcurrants in this field planted by her father. The experience of growing up and living in this place and its surrounding nature has influenced much of her work, producing exhibitions such as 'The Orchard', 'Ground', 'The Blackcurrant Field', 'Two Trees' and 'Proscenium'. Hers is not a desire to represent but to distill the essence of this place. Her approach is intuitive and much of her work is developed slowly over time. She attempts to make works with a sense of depth that appear effortless. This can be difficult to achieve on first touch and a process of layering from light to dark and dark to light is begun, in order to arrive home. Aidan Dunne in his 5 star review of 'Proscenium in the |Irish Times, 6th March 2018 wrote "Gerhard Richter once remarked that he aimed to make paintings that have the rightness of nature without imitating nature. It's a good description of what Gorey achieves." Curriculum Vitae 1978 -82 Limerick School of Art and Design 1982 Academia di Belle Arti, Perugia, Italy 1983-85 Kilkenny Design Workshops 1985-2000 Theatre Unlimited Solo Exhibitions 2018 Proscenium, Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin. The Glebe Gallery, Donegal and South Tipperary Arts Centre 2017 Proscenium Studio Exhibition, Alternative Kilkenny Arts 2016 Studio Exhibition, Alternative Kilkenny Arts 2013 The Orchard, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny 2006 Two Trees, The Dock, Leitrim In Memoriam, Canoflan Ucheldre Centre, Wales 2005 In Memoriam, Kilkenny Arts Festival 2004 Putting a Face to a Name, Lithuanian Day of Welcomes, Kilkenny & Vilnius What You Need for Painting, Sligo Art Gallery, Mermaid Arts Centre 2003 What You Need for Painting, Limerick City Gallery 2002 Ground, Studio installation, Kilkenny Arts Festival 2001 The Blackcurrant Field, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Triskel Arts Centre, 2000 Butler House, Kilkenny Arts Festival 1999 Landscape and Memory, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery 1996 Stranded, Jo Rain Gallery 1994 Three Into Two, RHA Gallery 1991 Blues, Temple Bar Gallery, Basement Gallery, Dundalk, 1986 Theatre Unlimited, Kilkenny Arts Week 1984 Butler House, Kilkenny Arts Week Selected Group Exhibitions 2020 Highlanes Gallery Open Sublission The Sky is Blue, Visual Carlow 'Between You and Me' Online Programme, Contemporary Irish Arts Centre Los Angeles, Helena Gorey & Masashi Suzuki, NagGallery Online 2019 nagOffsite at Rathfarnham Castle 2018 Pathways 6 '..the lives we live..' Grangegorman Primary Care Centre 2017 Coast – Lines, Irish Museum of Modern Art Peripheries Open, Gorey School of Art 2015 - 19 RHA Annual Exhibition , Dublin 2014 Celebrating 70 years of the Butler Gallery Collection 2008 Temple Bar Gallery 2007 RHA Gallagher Gallery 2005 40 Shades of Green, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Memphis, Vilnius 2004 Views from an Island; Contemporary Art from Ireland, Beijing and Shanghai From the Centre to the Edge, Video exhibition from Ireland and Lithuania Ecological Landscape symposium & exhibition, Kaunas, Lithuania 2003 New Acquisitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art New Acquisitions, National Self Portrait Collection, University of Limerick Irish Art Today, Civic Theatre Gallery Tallaght 2002 Iontas, Sligo Art Gallery (also, 2001,1991, 1995, 1999) 1999 EV+A 99 Reduced, Limerick City Gallery of Art (also 1992, 1987) 1997 Lingua Oculorum, Beltable Arts Centre, Limerick Six Artists, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny 1996 Art of the State, touring Ireland Claremorris Open Exhibition (also 1989, 1994) 1995 Monaghan Open Exhibition (also 1993) 1994 XXVI Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France 1989 GPA Awards for Emerging Artists, Douglas Hyde Gallery Awards 2020 Artworks award Carlow Arts Festival/Visual Carlow Highly commendedAward Highlanes Open Submission 2019 Artlinks Professional Development Bursary 2017 Arts Act Grant, Kilkenny County Counci 2006 CCAT Award for touring, Wales 2005 Project Award Kilkenny County Council 2004 Travel and Mobility Award, The Arts Council. Residency Kaunas and Nida in Lithuania & Ballinskelligs 2001 Publications Assistance Grant, The Arts Council 1995 Painting Award, Iontas and 1st Prize, Monaghan Open Exhibition 1994 George Campbell Memorial Travel Award Residency, Fondacion Valparioso, Mojacar, Spain Public Collections The Irish Museum of Modern Art The Arts Council The Office of Public Works The Butler Gallery The Glebe Gallery Contemporary Irish Art Society National Self Portrait Collection Selected Bibliography 2019 nagOffsite documentary publication of projects at Rathfarnham Castle curated by Mark St.John Ellis 2018 Proscenium, Artist's monograph with text by Rob Pearson & RHA Spring Newsletter 'What you get is more than what you see' Aidan Dunne 5 star review, The Irish Times 6th March 2015 Art & Architecture of Ireland Volume V: Twentieth Cenury by Catherine Marshall & Peter Murrey, published by the Royal Irish Acadamy. 2013 'The Orchard in which Art Grew' Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times 1st April. 2006 'Spaces for the Imagination', Aidan Dunne, Irish Times 30th August. 'Just Don't Say I Know What I Like' Gemma Tipton, Irish Times 18th of February 2005 In Memoriam, Essay - Lisa Moran Kilkenny Arts Festival, Visual Arts catalogue - curator Mike Fitzpatrick 'Ravashing Images and Space to Dream' Aidan Dunne, Irish Times 18th August 2004 Ecological Landscape – curator Gintautas Vaicys Circa 108, What you need for Painting – Sarah Brown 'In Essence' Marianne Hartigan, Sunday Tribune 2nd of May 2003 What you need for Painting, Essay – Donna McGreevy 2002 'The Perfect Sight for Clear Vision', Aidan Dunne, Irish Times 13th August 2001 Focus 2, Gandon Editions, Essays – Catherine Marshall & Ruairi O'Cuiv 'Absolut Art or Absolute Adverts ? ' Aidan Dunne, Irish Times 15th August Review, Alana Hopkins, The Irish Examiner 5th of November Review, Mark Ewart, Irish Times, 7th November Rattlebag Radio Review – Diarmuid de Paor 1999 Review, Marian Lovett, The Sunday Times, 24th January 1996 Review, Medb Ruane, The Sunday Times, 23rd June 1991 Blues, Essay- Brian Fallon Home
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