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1967 born in Dublin, Ireland
Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland
Education
1998 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London
1994 BA Fine Art & History of Art (1st Class), National College of Art and Design, Dublin
1989 MA Philosophy and Classical Art, University of Edinburgh
Grants
2003 Nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award
2002 Public Art Commission for Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin
Commissioned Artist for Public Art and Planning Project with Longford County Council
2000 Irish Cultural Relations Committee Grant, Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin
1999 Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland
Public Arts Laboratory, Public Arts Research Commission awarded by Liverpool Design Initiative
1998 Award winner, Perspective, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
1996 Random Access Video Training Symposium, Sculptors’ Society of Ireland
Arts Council of Ireland Grant
1995 Residency, The Centre for Art and Nature, Catalonia
Irish Cultural Relations Committee Grant, Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin
1994 Very Special Commendation and Art History Prize, NCAD, Dublin
Best Student Award, Iontas, National Exhibition of Small Works
1993 Erasmus Exchange Scholarship to Glasgow School of Art
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Rubicon Gallery Dublin
Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Conrads, Duesseldorf and Berlin, Germany
2006 Musee de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, France
Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
PERUGI artecontemporanea, Padua
2005 Adventures in Contentment Aliceday, Brussels
Western Parkway, Blancpainstepczynski, Geneva
Its So Hard to be a Saint in the City, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
2004 Garden City, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
Art Brussels, Belgium (solo with Rubicon Gallery)
2003 What to Look for in Summer, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
2002 Stedelijk Museum, Aalst, Belgium
2000 City v Country, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
A Poetic Geography of Five Continents, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
1998 Untitled Monochrome Series, Andrew Mummery, London
1997 The Natural Order of Things, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1996 A Short Discourse on Nature and Culture, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
1994 From the Frontier to Here, Carroll Gallery, Longford
Group Exhibitions
2006 Deja 5 Ans Seulement, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
Cross the line, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf
Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 De Natura, Centre d’Art de Meymac, France
Out of Place-Works on Paper, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles,
Happy Holiday, Rubicon Gallery Dublin
Est-ce bien de l’Art, Abbaye du Ronceray, Angers, France
A Moment in Time, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
The Happiest Country in the World, Dublin and Lorient
The Vernacular, Standpoint Gallery, London
Contemporary Art from Ireland, European Central Bank, Frankfurt
West, RHA Gallaher Gallery, Dublin
2004 John Moores 23, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Amnesty International, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2002 No Object, No Subject, No Matter..., Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Art Brussels, Belgium Art Fair with Rubicon Gallery
2001 East International, Norwich Gallery
The Garden, Model Arts Centre, Sligo
Tiger Tiger, Fenton Gallery, Cork
A Focus on Drawing, Limerick City Gallery, Crawford, Temple Bar Gallery (Touring)
2000 ART 2000, London Art Fair with Rubicon Gallery
ARTfutures, Contemporary Arts Society, London
NowHere, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
Public Arts Laboratory, Touring Exhibition, U.K.
1999 ARTfutures, Contemporary Arts Society, London
John Moores 21, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Utopias, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Fantastic Overload, Rubicon Gallery
Away from Home, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Starting a Collection, Art First, London
1998 Expanded View, Ikon Gallery Touring Show
Perspective, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
Return to Sender, Touring Exhibition of Irish Art in Australia
1997 John Moores 20, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Victor Treacy Memorial Award Show, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
Video Cats, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
1996 Born Wild (with Caroline McCarthy), Video Projection, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
Seven Views, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
Wet Paint, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
Five Painters, Model Arts Centre, Sligo
250 Years of Drawing at NCAD, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Collections
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
The British Council
The British Government Collection
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Deutsche Bank/Morgan Grenfell
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Allied Irish Bank
Environmental Protection Agency
First National Building Society
Dublin Institute of Technology
School of Architecture, UCD
Limerick City Gallery of Art
Office of Public Works
Bibliography
2005 By the Shores of Lake Eden catalogue
2006 “Il gioco di Parigi”, Luca Arnaudo, e-art magazine, Anno 11, edizione No.11
“Blaise Drummond, Garden City”, Paris Art, Caroline Pillet, September 2004
Beaux Arts, Judicael Lavrador, September 2004
2003 “Blaise Drummond: What to Look for in Summer”, Catherine Leen, The Sunday Times, 04.05.03
“Blaise Drummond at the Rubicon Gallery”, Billy Leahy, In Dublin, April 2003
“Blaise Drummond”, Rattlebag, RTE Radio 1, 25.04.03
2001 “Architecture into Paint”, Circa, Vol. 97, Autumn 2001
2000 “Blaise Drummond”, Art Review, Vol. LII, March 2000
1999 “Gondolas are optional”, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 28.09.99
“Reflections on a less-than-perfect world”, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 18.08.99
“Away from Home”, Robert Clark, The Guardian, 23.01.99
1998 “Perspective '98”, Ian Hill, The Irish Times, 27.10.98
“Perspective '98”, Angela Murray, The Sunday Tribune, 01.11.98
“Return to Sender”, Noel Sheridan, Circa, Vol. 84, Summer 1998
1997 “La cage aux folles”, Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 11.11.97
“Moores scores”, William Feaver, The Observer, 09.11.97
“Fashionable flotsam”, David Lee, The Spectator, 22.11.97
“Blaise Drummond”, Brian Fallon, The Irish Times, 18.03.97
“Blaise Drummond”, Aidan Dunne, The Sunday Tribune, 22.03.97
“Seven Go...”, Circa, Spring 1996
Links
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