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13:00 - 14:00, Friday 21 October - Friday 18 November
As part of the 130th Annual Royal Ulster Academy exhibition a number of artists will come to the Ulster Museum to talk about their work.
Artists' talks will take place in the Ulster Museum Lecture Theatre starting at 1pm.
These lectures are free to attend but as places are limited please call +44 (0) 28 9044 0017 to reserve your free ticket. Tickets can be collected from the Welcome Area on the day of the lecture.
Image caption, portrait of Brian Friel by Mick O'Dea. Oil on canvas commissioned by the National Gallery of Ireland.
Artists will be speaking on the following dates at 1pm:
- Rosie McGurran RUA, Friday 21st October
- Mark Shields RUA, Friday 28th October
- Barbara Freeman RUA, Friday 4th November
- Hector McDonnell RUA, Friday 11th November
- Mick O'Dea RHA, Friday 18th November
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More information about the Artists
- Rosie McGurran RUA, Friday 21st October
Rosie McGurran has made her home in the village of Roundstone in Connemara. Since moving there in 2000, she has established the Inishlacken Project, an annual island based artists residency honouring the artists from the past who lived there while continuing to create a contemporary vision of the West of Ireland.
She also opens her studio to the public during the summer months and has recently held a major solo exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre. Over the past ten years Rosie McGurran has completed residencies in New York, Australia and Iceland and has exhibited extensively in Ireland and internationally.
- Mark Shields RUA, Friday 28th October
Mark Shields was born in 1963 and studied at the University of Ulster where he completed a BA in Fine Art and a PGCE in Art and Design. He is represented by the Grosvenor Gallery, London and currently lives and works near Belfast. Mark has exhibited at such places as the Mall Galleries, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Ulster Academy and the National Gallery of Ireland. Additionally, his paintings have featured in international events such as the Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art, Galerie Brusberg in Berlin, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town and the Basel Art Fair in Switzerland.
- Barbara Freeman RUA, Friday 4th November
Barbara Freeman artist was born in London and studied at St. Martins and Camberwell Colleges of Art, with postgraduate study at the University of Leeds; She has lived and worked in Belfast for the last twenty five years.
She has had over forty solo exhibitions of paintings, prints and installation works in Ireland, Britain, the United States, Hungary, Germany and former Yugoslavia. She has had residencies in Hungary, Slovenia, Macedonia, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and U.S.A. and was Abbey Fellow at the British School at Rome. She has taken part in numerous group shows. most recently in ‘New Irish Painting’ at the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.
Though mainly known as a painter and printmaker she has more recently been involved in all sorts of collaborative ventures. Most of these have been with composers and musicians to form visual/sound installations.
- Hector McDonnell RUA, Friday 11th November
- Mick O'Dea RHA, Friday 18th November