122cm x 344cm x 2cm

About artist: Seán Cotter was born in 1969 in Monasterevin, Co. Kildare and is a graduate of The National College of Art and Design in 1991, Dublin. He has held numerous solo exhibitions since, which most recently include Hinterland at Gormleys Art Gallery in Belfast 2013, Memorate at Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown 2011, The Slow Decent at Gormleys, Dublin 2010, The Traveller at The Basement Gallery, Dundalk 2009 and Notational Morphologies at Lapua Art Museum, Lapua, Finland 2008 and Galway International Arts Festival (GIAF) 2009. He has been involved in numerous group exhibitions throughout Europe since 1991, exhibiting in England, Scotland, Germany, France, Norway, Finland and Ireland. Cotter has created solo exhibitions for Eigse Carlow Arts Festival 2005 and GIAF 1994 and 2009 and been both invited and selected for the Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition over the past number of years. In 2017 he exhibited back at GIAF with Thomas Brezing and Gary Robinson at 126 Gallery, while been selected for 30 Years, Artists, Places in 2015 and Landscape at Limerick City Gallery of Art, 2012. He has received grants from The Arts Council, Louth Local Authority, Kildare and Galway Corporations and held residencies in Ireland, Finland, Germany and most recently in Iceland of this year, for one month. In 2011 he co-curated ‘7.42’, an international touring exhibition in both Finland and Ireland. In 2008 he was commissioned by Kildare County Council to create a series of drawings and a painting and his work is included in the collections of The Lapua Art Museum Finland, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Lapua Arts and Science Foundation Finland, The Contemporary Irish Art Society, Office of Public Works, Aviva Investors London, College of Humanities Limerick, Kildare, Louth and Wicklow County Councils and Drogheda Borough Council and in the private collections of President Michael D Higgins and the Pulitzer prize winning journalist Ron Brownstein. 2016 saw him on a panel discussion at Dunamaise Arts Centre to mark the exhibition 30 Years, Artists, Places, entitled Collecting Who for What, chaired by Cliodhna Ní Anluain with contributions by Cristín Leach, Jacquie Moore and Kevin Kavanagh. Selected Bibliography 2008 Catherine Marshall ‘Notational Morphologies’, Seán Cotter, catalogue essay, ‘Painting the Second Coming’, ISBN: 978-0-9560994-1-9 2012 Gemma Tipton ‘7.42’, ‘Between the Darkness and the Light’, Life and Culture, Irish Times 18-04-12 Currently Seán serves on the board of Directors for Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda.
About artwork: Painting relates to Finish landscape and was executed in Ireland subsequent to a residency in Finland. Exhibited in Lapua and Helsinki in Finland, and Highlanes Gallery Drogheda in 2012 as part of a touring exhibition '7.42'.
Website: https://www.seancotter.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smpcotter/

Excellent Condition

Oil on primed mdf board

Yes