Shane Berkery, Table for Two 2015
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Artwork
Table for Two is amongst the earliest of the series of paintings where Shane Berkery started to work from old family photos from his Japanese side. In this series, which is still an integral part of his practice, he studies the mechanisms by which the painted figure exerts a sense of ‘realness’ and presence to the viewer, all the while attempting to capture and preserve the aura of nostalgia that the old photographs possess.
Artist
Shane is a Dublin-based painter represented by the Molesworth Gallery in Dublin. He received the NUI Art and Design Award in 2015 and the Hennessy-Craig award and Whyte’s award at the 186th RHA Annual Exhibition 2016. He has work in the Irish state collection which has been shown alongside portraits by School of Rembrandt and Louis le Brocquy in Portraits of a Nation; was shortlisted for the Hennessy Portrait Prize in 2017 where the painting was exhibited in the National Gallery of Ireland; had a solo presentation at the Start Art Fair in the Saatchi Gallery in London; and has exhibited in the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art in Wisconsin. He has exhibited in over 20 exhibitions since graduating from the National College of Art and Design in 2015, had two highly successful solo exhibitions and has been shortlisted for the Zurich Portrait Prize in the National Gallery of Ireland 2019.
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