Fergus Martin
Male, Person
1955 –
Who is Fergus Martin?
Fergus Martin. He attended Blackrock College. He studied at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology and was elected a member of Aosdána.
From 1979–1988 he lived in Italy, where he lectured in English Language at the University of Milan. He returned to Ireland to become a full-time painter. He attended the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture in 1991.
Solo exhibitions include:
Green on Red Gallery]], Dublin: Pipe Dreams;
The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny: Six Paintings, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers;
Oliver Dowling Gallery.
In 2005, his work was included in Internationale Kunst in der Südwestkurve, in Karlsruhe, Germany, and in C2, Crawford Municipal Gallery of Art, Cork. In 2004, he took part in Dublin Connection at Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, and L’art d’être au monde in Melle, France in 2003.
He has received awards from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York and The Marten Toonder Award, as well as Arts Council bursaries. His work is included in public collections such as The Irish Museum of Modern Art [3], The Office of Public Works and other public institutions.
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- Born
- Jan 18, 1955
Cork - Education
- Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
- Lived in
- County Cork
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on July 23, 2013
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