Martin Mooney
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Dublin Four CourtsMartin MooneyView more details
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Connemara LandscapeMartin MooneyView more details
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Flowers in a glass vaseMartin MooneyView more details
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Spring FlowersMartin MooneyView more details
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Connemara LandscapeMartin MooneyView more details
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Tree Study IMartin MooneyView more details
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Tree Study IIMartin MooneyView more details
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Still Life with Green VaseMartin MooneyView more details
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Flower StudyMartin MooneyView more details
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Flower StudyMartin MooneyView more details
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Roses in a Blue VaseMartin MooneyView more details
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Flower Study IMartin MooneyView more details
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Spring FlowersMartin MooneyView more details
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Flower Study IIIMartin MooneyView more details
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Flowers on a White ClothMartin MooneyView more details
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Autumn FlowersMartin MooneyView more details
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Connemara, Near RoundstoneMartin MooneyView more details
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Evening ConnemaraMartin MooneyView more details
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Landscape, ConnemaraMartin MooneyView more details
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Connemara LandscapeMartin MooneyView more details
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Flowers on WhiteMartin MooneyView more details
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Howth from KillineyMartin MooneyView more details
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Landscape Cashel ConnemaraMartin MooneyView more details
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The BurrenMartin MooneyView more details
Regarded as one of Ireland’s most accomplished fine art painters, Martin Mooney was born in 1960, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Mooney graduated from the Brighton College of Art & Design and the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art, where he completed his Masters in Fine Art painting. Mooney’s outstanding technical ability, together with his keenness to look to the past for inspiration, has gained him appreciation over the years from a number of admirers including his tutors at Slade, Euan Uglow and Sir Lawrence Gowing. He also gained attention from the London Evening Standard’s art critic Brian Sewell who had written an essay, in 1990 for Mooney’s first solo exhibition at Dublin’s Solomon Gallery and spoke glowingly of this ‘fine painter with a natural intelligence’ who had taken up the mantle of the past. Since his first solo exhibition, Mooney has had numerous sell-out exhibitions in Dublin, London, Toronto and New York.
Mooney has been known to build up his paintings using glazed layers, often bathed in a golden hue. Whether his paintings are set in Dublin or Venice, Gerona or Donegal they all have a similarity. He paints architecture, countryside and still life using enriched tones, rich reds and pale blues.
In an exhibition in 2007, at the James Adam Auctioneers in Dublin, Mooney gave a new desire to paint floral still life and landscapes of Donegal. He wanted to challenge himself as an artist and create new subject matters, which has led him to be an even more accomplished painter.
Now based in rural Donegal, Mooney’s landscapes are informed by his absorption of plein air painting. His billowing cloud formations and insertions of unexpected colour epitomise Mooney’s new relationship with colour and form, along with a new sense of fluidity and freedom.
1960 Born Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1979-80 University of Ulster, Faculty of Art and Design
1980-83 Brighton Polytechnic College of Art and Design; BA Honours Fine Art
1983-85 University College London, The Slade School of Fine Art (Post Graduate)
Awards include:
1983 Emily Lucy Boyce Travel Scholarship, Brighton Faculty of Art
1985 Richard Ford Award, The Royal Academy, London
1987 George Campbell Memorial Grant, Arts Council of Ireland, Arts of Northern Ireland and the Spanish Cultural Institute, Dublin
1992 Adams Salesrooms Choice of Artist for Future Appreciation Award, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
1997 Completed ten large paintings for the Merrion Hotel, Dublin
2001 Appointed official artist for HRH The Prince of Wales Royal Tour of the Baltic States
2003 Appointed official artist for HRH The Prince of Wales Royal Tour of Russia
Works held in private collections in Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Guernsey, Spain, The Netherlands, Switzerland, USA, Canada, South Africa, Morocco, Australia and Hong Kong.
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Spring Show
Belfast Gallery 16 Mar - 4 Apr 2024We are excited to announce the opening of our annual Spring Group Exhibition, showcasing works by some of Ireland’s leading contemporary artists alongside household international names. The exhibition features work...Read more -
Martin Mooney- Featured Artist
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Gormleys at Charlemont Square
International Art & Sculpture Exhibition 6 Oct - 5 Nov 2023Gormleys is proud to present a major exhibition featuring some of the biggest names in international and Irish art. Over 150 artworks will be on display, including a feature...Read more -
Art + Soul: International Art and Sculpture Exhibition
The Culloden Estate, Belfast 19 Aug - 10 Sep 2023Gormleys is delighted to present Ireland's largest Art & Sculpture exhibition at the 5* Castlemartyr Resort in Cork. Art + Soul showcases over 250 artworks by some of the biggest...Read more