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Alex McKenna
Alex McKenna was born in Balbriggan, Co. Dublin. He was educated in University College, Dublin where he received both his Bachelor of Art and H. Dip Ed. He describes himself as a self taught painter.
He is described by Simon Coleman, from the RHA, as "a very fine prolific artist who has laboured continuously in the art world for the last 25 years. Although a traditionalist influenced by the west of Ireland, and now a native Gaelic speaker, he is forever widening the peripheries of Irish landscapes painting. His powerful angular work on exhibition not only show the ruggedness of the landscape and its inhabitants but contain that mysterious quality which seems to draw people of all creeds to this remote piece of land on the western seaboard in search of some kind of spiritual renewal.
Exhibitions
1983 Brecam Gallery
1989 Forge Gallery
1990 Hangman Gallery, Bray
1991 'Shades of Achill', Duke Gallery, Dublin
1992 Arbutus Lodge, Cork
1993 Apollo Gallery, Duke Street, Dublin
Selected Group Exhibitions
RHA Group Exhibitions Oireachtas
RHA Banquet Exhibitions Garter Lane, Waterford - Rotary Club
Contemporary Arts Fair Bath
Kelly's Strand Hotel, Ross, Wexford Festival
'Round Room' Exhibition, St Vincent's Hospital
World of Watercolours & Drawings, Park Lane Hotel, London
John Ross, Fine Arts Exhibitions, Belfast
Contemporary Arts Fair, Kilmainham
Dirk Gallery, Castlebar
Bangor Arts Gallery
Annual Exhibition, Blackrock Clinic
Roy Lyndsay Gallery, Blackrock
The Village Gallery, Skerries
Academy without Walls, RHA '93
Art '94, London
Selected Collections & Commissions
AIB and Ulster Bank The Christie Moore Collection
Mayoralty, Waterford Killiney Head Hotel
Marino Higher Institute of Education The Holmes Collection
CRC Clinic, Clontarf, Dublin Patrick Cooney, MEP
Dutton Park, NSW, Australia Noel Dempsey, Dept of the Taoiseach
Sachs Hotel, Dublin
Dr Garrett Fitzgerald (Philadelphia)
Marino International Business Centre
Padraic Flynn EC Commissioner Many collections in America, Canada, France and Germany
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