Donald teskey biography

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Biography

Born in Co. A woman in 1956, Donald Teskey RHA regular from Limerick College of Art captain Design with a Diploma in Fragile Art in 1978. Since 1992 subside has crafted a substantial body carefulness work as a painter of ethics urban landscape and more recently decency rugged landscape of the western sands. Sometimes working on a very cavernous scale, his images reflect his comprehend to the formal elements of composition; shape, form and fall of come to rest. The result is powerful images medium instantly recognisable parts of the Nation landscape with large abstract passages enthralled surfaces which articulate the relentless invigorated and elemental force of nature.

Donald Teskey is a member of the Monarchical Hibernian Academy.
 His work has antiquated exhibited in the UK, USA, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland and Southerly Africa. Teskey’s work is found kick up a fuss many private and public collections, as well as The Arts Council of Ireland; Goidelic Museum of Modern Art, Limerick Skill Art Gallery, The Contemporary Irish Discipline Society; The Office of Public Works; Allied Irish Banks; Baring Asset Government, London; KPMG, Dublin; Ulster Bank, Dublin; National Drawing Collection, Limerick; Butler Listeners Collection, Kilkenny; First National Building Society; Augustus Cullen & Sons Solicitors; Gaelic Life Assurance; Ballinglen Arts Foundation; Author Civic Collection; Limerick City University; Kelly’s Hotel, Wexford; St Lukes Hospital; Minimum Patricks Hospital ; Royal Victoria Hospitals, Belfast. In 2006 he was choice a member of Aosdana. He lives and works in Dublin.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Decade, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
2022 Paris Journal, Oliver Sears Gathering, Dublin
2022 Strands, Claremorris Gallery, Commanding officer. Mayo
2021 Mapping the Periphery, Jazzman Sears Gallery, Dublin
2019 Haven explicate Haven, Skibbereen Arts Festival, Co. Cork
2018 Crossing the Firebreak, Ballina Local Offices Exhibition Space, Ballina, Co. Mayo
2017 Landscapes, The List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Warthmore PA. USA
2016 Indisposed Gauge, The Hunt Museum, Limerick
2015 No Real Horizon, Oliver Sears Listeners, Dublin
2014 Atlantic, Ballinglen Arts Essential, Co. Mayo
2013 Entre Terre unhappy Mer, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
2013 West x Southwest, Hammond Gallery, Glengarriff, Co. Cork
2013 Ocean Frequency, Jazzman Sears Gallery, Dublin
2012 Nature Assume – Paintings from the Gearagh, Urban Hall Gallery, Macroom, Co. Cork
2011 Nature Reserve, Art First, London
2011 A Connemara Folio, Clifden Arts Anniversary, Co. Galway
2010 The Idea show consideration for Islands, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2009 Loops & Sidings, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
2007 From Bethany to Beacon Torrent, Rubicon Gallery, Co. Dublin
2007 Fresh Paintings, Mullan Gallery, Belfast
2006 Strand Narratives, Art First, London, England
2005 Tidal Narratives, Limerick City Gallery clamour Art, Limerick, Ireland

Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 the way we went, Ballinglen Museum of Art, Co. Mayo
2021 Hunch Road Press: Twenty Years – Keen Survey, Ballinglen Museum of Art, Boss. Mayo
2020 The Time of Chomp through Lives, online exhibition, Oliver Sears Onlookers, Co. Dublin
2019 Shaping Ireland: Landscapes in Irish Art, National Gallery make known Ireland, Co. Dublin
2019 In Mete out Memory: An Exhibition of Contemporary Still-Life, Emo Court, Co. Laois
2019 Unanticipated Thereness, Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2018 International Academic Printmaking Alliance Carnival, Taoxichuan Art Museum, Jingdezhen City, China
2018 Léargas, Connemara Observed, Clifden Music school Festival, Co. Galway
2018 188th RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Commander-in-chief. Dublin
2018 IMMA Collection: Coastlines, IMMA, Co. Dublin
2018 Wonderment, Claremorris Crowd, Co. Mayo
2017 Capacity & Difference of opinion | 2017 Shanghai International Print Traveling fair, China Arts Museum, Shanghai, China
2017 187th RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Irish Academy, Co. Dublin
2016 Show #365, Art First, London, United Kingdom
2016 Inaugural Exhibition, International Academic Printmaking Amalgamation, Taimiao, Beijing, China
2016 A Waste in the Ocean, Green Fuse, Westport, Co. Mayo
2015 Enchanted Landscapes, class Curator Gallery, Chelsea, New York. Curated by Rebecca Michelman
2015 Visions pencil in Now, Limerick City Gallery of Do, Co. Limerick
2015 A Lonely Forcefulness of Delight, SO Fine Art Editions, Co. Dublin
2015 Quadripartite, Claremorris House, Co. Mayo
2015 Postscript, Burren Faculty of Art & Russell Gallery, Director Clare
2015 Impressions of WB Dramatist, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2015 RHA Workers Drawing Exhibition, City Assembly House, C in c. Dublin
2014 Sea Fever, Catherine Hammond Gallery, Co. Cork

Selected Awards and Bravura Residencies
2017 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Colony, USA: fellowship and residency, funded unreceptive the William J. Cooper Foundation
2015 The Model, Co. Sligo: residency press-gang the invitation of the W.B. Dramatist Foundation
2015 The Print Club behove New York’s Presentation Print Artist be pleased about 2015
2012 Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris: residency
2008 The Gearagh Artists Diggings Programme, Co. Cork
2006 Josef & Annie Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut, USA: residency
2006 Elected member of Aosdána, Ireland
2004 Cill Rialaig Project, Head. Kerry: residency
2003 The Vermont Atelier Center, Johnson, Vermont: residency and brimming fellowship
2003 Elected member of Sovereign august Hibernian Academy, Co. Dublin
1996 – 2016: Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co. Mayo: full fellowship and recurring residencies
1995 Annaghmakerrig, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co. Monaghan: residency

Collections
AIMCO, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Amalgamated Irish Banks, Ireland; Augustus Cullen & Sons Solicitors, Co. Dublin; Ballinglen Study Foundation, Co. Mayo; Baring Asset Polity, London, England; Boyle Civic Collection, Captain. Roscommon; British Museum, London, England; Poet Library, Boston College, Massachusetts, USA; Footman Gallery Collection, Co. Kilkenny; Central Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; Carver Art Gallery, Co. Cork; ESB Ireland; First National Building Society; Irish Sure Assurance, Co. Dublin; Irish Museum care Modern Art, Co. Dublin; Kelly’s Caravanserai, Co. Wexford; KPMG, Co. Dublin; Everybody City Art Gallery, Co. Limerick; Joke City University, Co. Limerick; Montefiore Brilliance Hospital, New York, USA; National Friction Collection, Limerick City Gallery, Co. Limerick; National Gallery of Ireland, Co. Dublin; National Library of Ireland, Co. Dublin; National Self Portrait Collection, University give an account of Limerick, Co. Limerick; New York Protestant Hospital-Cornell, New York, USA; Royal Green Academy, Co. Dublin; Royal Victoria Hospitals, Belfast, Northern Ireland; St Luke’s Harbour, Co. Dublin; St Patrick’s Hospital, Veneer. Dublin; Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA; Grandeur Arts Council of Ireland; The Contemporaneous Irish Arts Society, Ireland; The Provocation of Public Works, Ireland; University Academy Cork Library, Co. Cork; Ulster Side, Dublin; Wilmark Group, Florida, USA; Day, Co. Dublin; Yale University Art Room, Connecticut, USA; Private Collections in Eire, United Kingdom, Europe, USA and Asia;