Royal Hibernian Academy, 186th Annual Exhibition, Dublin
22nd March – 11th June 2016
During the Easter Rising in 1916 the Royal Hibernian Academy, then situated on Lower Abbey Street, was destroyed by fire. To Commemorate the Easter Rising, the 186th Annual Exhibition has returned to its original time of year.
I am very delighted that one of my pictures will be included in this years RHA Annual Exhibition. The picture that was selected was my “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Baby Tuckoo”. James Joyce’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” will also be celebration its publication centenary later this year.
Featured Artist @LoveHerneHill - Twitter
February/ March 2016
Im very pleased that my Watercolour sketch project* on Twitter has been has gained the attention of @LoveHerneHill a local community twitter feed. They are featuring a sketch I did as the banner on there homepage.
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Wells’ War of the Worlds: A Visual , The Lightbox Gallery & Museum, Woking, Surrey
26th March – 1st May 2016
Last December I got wind of an open submission opportunity on H G Well’s, War of the Worlds through Ochre Print Studio with Woking Borough Council and Surrey Arts. I decided to spend the holidays getting more acquainted with Well’s masterpiece. While I was enjoying the book I made sketches with my other hand and ended up making two finished pictures. I totally enjoyed the experience and was delighted to then hear my work were selected.
Artist Talk at Barr Gazetas Ltd, London
January 2016
Its been well known to me that Architects are my biggest fans, we have many of the same loves and utilise many of the same tools. So perhaps it should not seam surprising to me that I keep on being asked to talk about my practice at Architectural firms.
This month Barr Gazetas in central London invited me in to speak to them about how I make my pictures.
I designed this talk on the making of my pictures low tech verses high tech. I shared sketches of pictures I am currently working up into prints to demonstrate how I work with pencil and paper first to break down my images before I remake them as screenprints. I also brought in a selection of finished prints and some of my sketch books. There were many an insightful question and one person even picked up on my poetry efforts inside a sketchbook (Please fined the poem below).
My Scribbles
How mighty is thy pen, thy brush?
Dose it press the skin of thy's foes neck/chest/flesh?
Do its marks flow, poured from the inkwell like water?
Or do they scratch, chip with a hammers laboured blow?
I hold my pen here between my chest, grasped in my fist here! see it?
Like a dagger, or are they just flowers?
You know all my stories they have all been told before.
Men, women, children forever tell them well.
Yet I scribble here to show you and I again.
It's simple stuff really... Love, or is it Truth?... maybe happiness or forgiveness are better?
But never tales of bragging greedy gold!
My pen is my picture, my voice, my eyes.
I write, I sing, I play, I dance, I fly.
by Frank Kiely
The Masters - Relief Prints - Bankside Gallery, London
3rd - 15th November 2015
This is the first in a series of exhibitions by the Royal Society of Painter- Printmakers dedicated to print techniques. The first Masters exhibition is a focus on Relief prints. I have made a picture from rubber stamps…come learn and see everything you want to know on Relief prints…oh and look out for my “God Search”.
Artist Talk, TP Bennett’s London
September 2015
For about an hour I babbled on to a packed room of designers, architects and town planners. I talked mainly about the ideas behind my pictures: What interests me and How I put a picture together. I certainly enjoyed myself, and I trust everyone got something from my talk. Thanks again for having me!
The Great Print Exhibition at The Rheged Centre, Cumbria
I am delighted to be invited to show at this momentous exhibition with 60 of my contemporaries from across Britain. Most exciting for me is the opportunity to bring my work to the North of England.
Off The Wall - Bankside Gallery, London
20th July – 23rd August 2015
This is the mix summer show of RWS and RE members work. There will be a great array of stiles and mediums on exhibited the very best in printmaking and watercolour. Like the titles suggests you can buy off the wall and this makes for a constantly changing exhibition as one picture sells another goes up. You can enjoy it fresh every visit!
http://banksidegallery.com/
The Mini Picture Show, Bankside Gallery
5th November 2014 – 25th January 2015
Mostly smaller size works by members of the RE and RWS available off the wall as a perfect seasonal gift, available to take away immediately. Worth visiting again and again as sold works are replaced with new pictures.
www.banksidegallery.com
The National Open Art Compitition
SOMERSET HOUSE, LONDON
18th September – 25th October 2014
MINERVA THEATRE, CHICHESTER
17th December 2014 – 3rd January 2015
WORKS ON PAPER FAIR, SCIENCE MUSEUM, LONDON
Selected works.
5th February – 8th February 2015
Got one of my Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce works into the
National Open Art Competition
http://www.thenationalopenartcompetition.com
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2014
9th June – 17th August 2014
Fantastic news my "Filmland" has got selected to this years RA Summer Exhibition. This picture is made up of film references all jumbled together. Can you spot any? for answers click here
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/15
