Adam's The Oliver Dowling Collection 11th September 2024

80 133 JOHN AIKEN (B.1950) The Journey Through Night (1984) Pencil, conte and varnish, 98 x 73cm Signed verso Provenance: with Oliver Dowling Gal- lery, label verso Exhibited: Dublin, Oliver Dowling Gallery, One-man exhibition April/May 1984, No. 5 € 400 - 600 134 JOHN AIKEN (B.1950) Black Dust Grid Mixed media on paper, 50 x 50cm Signed, inscribed and dated (19)’79 verso Unframed € 100 - 150 Sculptor, John Aiken, was born in Belfast in 1950 and received his for- mal training at the Chelsea School of Art andbetween 1973 - 75 was a Rome Scholar in Sculpture at the British School in Rome. Having taught at the University of Ulster and at the Rome School he joined the staff of the Slade School of Fine Art, culminating with a professorship in 2000. Aiken had a solo show at the Arts Council Gallery in Belfast 1978, and later ones including Oliver Dowl- ing Gallery, Dublin in 1984, the Or- pheus Gallery, Belfast, 1991, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 1995, and in 2003 at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, in association with The Orchard Gallery, Derry. The Arts Council of Ireland, University College Dublin and Trinity College in Dublin, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo and other public collections hold examples.