JOHN SMALLEY
artist / teacher
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Painting selected for Ballinglen Art Museum Inaugural Exhibition
The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, North County Mayo, Republic of Ireland, has recently opened a new museum alongside its studio facilities and have selected one of my archived oil paintings: Downpatrick Head from No. 5, for its inaugural exhibition. The piece hangs among a group of other Foundation Fellows’ works in the new galleries.
Downpatrick Head from No. 5 Oil on paper 1998
28 Years Rambling through the Landscape
Works by Eric Aho, Mary Armstrong, Alex Boyd, Julie Bradley, Rachel Brown, Linda Carey, Roger Chavez,
Nuala Clarke, Gail Shaw Clemons, Gwen Davidson, Randall Exon, Charles Field, Ruth Fine, Bill Freeland,
David Gibson, Dan Gualdoni, Patrick Harris, Christobel Kelly, Edward Kennedy, David Lilburn, Ed Milano,
Mick O’dea, Barbara Rae, Jeffrey Reed, Ryan Reynolds, Charles Ritchie, Thomas Roese, Ronald Rumford,
Stuart Shils, John Smalley, Ken Smith, Chritie Taylor, Keith Wilson.
The Ballinglen Arts Foundation was founded in 1992 by Margo Dolan and her husband Peter Maxwell. It is a centre for international artists who are awarded competitive Fellowships to live and work in the village and environs of Ballycastle, situated on the spectacular north coast of County Mayo.
Works by these Foundation Fellows have become an important Permanent Collection of paintings, drawings, original prints and three-dimensional works. It is one of the largest collections of Contemporary Art in Ireland— and is continually growing. The collection is unique as it is comprised of works generated by each artist’s experience at Ballinglen and within North Mayo: sea/landscape-based works, abstract evocations of mind, land, sea, air and conceptual responses to environmental and spiritual experiences.
The Ballinglen Arts Foundation Complex, Main Street, Ballycastle