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Felim Egan (b.1952)
Woodnote 2K
Acrylic and mixed media on wood, 48 x 48cm (19 x 19”)
Signed and dated (20) ‘02 verso
Exhibited: Edinburgh, Ingleby Gallery, May/ June 2002.
Originally from Strabane Co. Tyrone, Felim Egan studied at the Slade School of Art in London and became known internationally early
in his career after representing Ireland at the 1980 Biennale de Paris and at the Bienal de Sao Paolo five years later. He spent a year at the
British School at Rome in 1980 before returning to Dublin where he has since lived and worked at Sandymount Strand on the edge of
Dublin Bay.
He exhibited widely in Dublin and Glasgow through the 1980s, including at ROSC ‘84. Egan’s success continued into the 1990s with
a major exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and at Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, and numerous awards and prizes
including the Premier UNESCO Prize for the Arts in Paris. His work hangs in numerous public collections including the the Ulster Mu-
seum, Belfast; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the collection of the European Parliament. Major Commissions include;
Dublin Castle; National Gallery of Ireland: O’Reilly Hall, UCD; Meeting House Square, Temple Bar and a large scale public ‘sculptural
work’ at Cork Street, Dublin, October 2005.
The year 2000 saw another major exhibition of his work at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. A member of Aosdána, Egan is repre-
sented by the Kerlin Gallery in Dublin.
€1,000 - 1,500