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Fenton Art Gallery: Tom Climent & Paddy McCann - 23rd June-13th July 2006
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Tom Climent & Paddy McCann
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From 23rd June 2006
This two person exhibition of new paintings by Tom Climent and Paddy McCann will run from Friday 23rd June.
Tom Climent’s new paintings are tremenduously exciting and accomplished. Working again on a large dramtic scale, some of the scenes hint again at the figurative presences so strong in his earlier work. He can conjure a sense of interior space or urban landscape within an aesthetic which is abstract and dramatic. He paints successfully at both large and small scales, colour clearly plays an important role.
Educated at the Crawford college of art, climent’s graduate show in 1995 created a huge stir and his work has been collected ever since. He paints full time in his Cork city studio and his work is represented in the collections of AIB, University College Cork, Office of Public Works, Cork City Council, Cork Opera House, Cork Institute of Technology and many private collections in Ireland, UK, Spain and USA. A catalogue of his work over the past 10 years with an essay by Vera Ryan is available.
One of the most interesting of the younger generation of northern painters, Paddy McCann was born in Co. Armagh in 1963. He received both a BA and MA Fine Art from the University of Ulster, where he now teaches part time. His paintings are admired by fellow artists such as Basil Blackshaw. McCann’s work has been shown at the fenton gallery in group shows and this two person exhibition will be followed by a major one person exhibition next year. He will also be exhibiting in Dublin later this year.
McCann’s paintings are intriguing, generally there is a hint at least of figurtative elements emerging within many layers of paint. Until now the presence of a watchful eye characterised much of his work, as did the smallness of his scale. In the last year, however, this is changing with a new development both in scale and in figurative movement. These new larger paintings are painted lusciously but also with a certain conceptual reserve. As an artist now in his early forties, McCann’s work is maturing and developing in a particularly exciting way.
His work is included in the collection of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Great Britain, Boyle Civic Arts Collection and in many private collections in Ireland, England, Hong Kong and the USA.
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Tom Climent
Tapestry,
Acrylic on canvas,
184 x 184cm
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