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John Brady

 
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Bradys Prado
   
Brady paints about the everyday things of our lives. He plays with motif and style so that he can better explore and reveal his own understanding of painting. He is not seeking a simple or coherent explanation of painting, but rather to engage with all the conflicting, ambiguous qualities involved in making paintings today. Simple objects are painted in thick rich impasto giving them an importance beyond their expected position, while grand landscape appear to float above the canvas on an invisible skin of clear wax. These simple inversions play with the conventions within painting, but also open up notions of personal motif and archetypical connotation. We are provided with a gentle conflation of motif, material and styles with which we can create our own story.
   

John Brady

1968 born in Westport, Ireland South

Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland South

Education

1986 -1991 Degree Fine Art painting, RTC, Galway
1994 -1995 Honors Degree Fine Art Painting, Crawford College, Cork
1995 -1996 MA, (distinction), European Fine Art, Winchester, Barcelona

Grants

2008 Travel and Training Arts Council of Ireland
2008 SIM Residency Reykjavik
2000 Mayo Artist Panel
1996 Mayo County Council Artist’s Bursary
1995 Crawford College Advanced Study Prize
1995 Arts Council of Ireland: Art Flight
1995 DHL Art Lift Award

Solo Exhibitions

2010 Brady's Prado, Linenhall Arts Centre
2009 Galway Arts Festival, Galway
2007 Nimmos, Ard bia, Galway
2006 Tulca, Revolving door, Art space, Galway
2005 Customs house gallery, Westport
2004 Glebe gallery, Donegal
1999 The Galway Arts centre
1997 The Linnenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar
1996 Panorama Gallery, Barcelona

Group Exhibitions

2009 Artspace, Volvo Ocean race show
2009 Mark Walsh joint show, Artspace
2008 COE Claremorris, Mayo
2008 SIM Reykjavik
2007 Surprise painting show G126, Galway
2007 Artspace, 21 year exhibition, GTI, Galway
2007 GMIT , Galway
1996 Winchester Gallery, Winchester
1996 Cubitt Street Gallery, London
1996 Tallers Obert, Barcelona
1996 Can Felipa, Barcelona
1996 The Living Landscape, Scibbereen, Co. Cork
1995 Ars Ad Astra, Euro Mir, First Exhibition in space

Projects

Gigantic Cart, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon 2008
SIM Residency Iceland August 2008
Galway Arts Festival July 2009

Collections

AIB Bank
Bank of Ireland
OPW
Law society of Ireland
Mayo County Council

Links

www.jbrady.info
http://resiceland.blogspot.com
http://giganticcart.blogspot.com
http://threedaysnparis.blogspot.com

   

John Brady

Glenburren Park
Tuam Road
Galway

jbrady@jbrady.info
www.jbrady.info




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