Micheal Farrell

James Joyce & other images . . .1999

- 1940 Born Ireland 3 July
- 1956-60 National Drawing and Painting Diploma, St Martins Fine Art
and Architecture School, London
- 1964 Scholarship, British Rome Award
- Carroll Award, Irish Exhibition of Living Art
- 1966 Macauly Scholarship. Stay in New York City.
- 1967 Young People's Biennial Festival, Paris. Winner of the Laurier
Award.
- Carroll Award, Irish Exhibition of Living Art.
- 1968 Special Award (Sculpture), Irish Exhibition of Living Art.
- 1969 Town of Liege Award (engraving)
- Ostend Europe Award
- Carroll Award, Irish Exhibition of Living Art.
- 1970 Settles in Paris.
- 1972 Gold Medal, Third Biennial Engraving Festival, Florence.
- Waterford Glass Award.
- 1974 Carroll Award, Living Exhibition of Living Art.
- 1976 Invitation to Villa Romana, Florence.
- 1980 Douglass Hyde (first Irish President) Gold Medal.
- 1985 Mosman Prize, Camden Prize, NSW, Australia.
- 1987 Aosdana: Member of the Irish Arts Academy.
Collections
- Peter Stuyvesant Foundation; Irish Arts Council; Salvador Allende International
Resistance Museum; National Library Paris; Diamond Company London; Arts
Council Northern Ireland; Ulster Museum; Ulster University; Australian
National University; Board Failte Dublin; Great Southern Hotels Ireland;
Board of Public Works, Dublin; Contemporary Arts Society Ireland; Irish
Investment Bank Dublin; Bank of Ireland; National Bank Dublin; Hugh Lane
Municipal Gallery of Modern Art Dublin; Trinity College Dublin; The Irish
House London; City of Manchester Art Gallery; Modern Art Museum Paris;
Central Bank Ireland; Allied Irish Bank Brussels; Allied Irish Investment
Bank London; National Funds France; The Writers Museum Dublin
Exhibitions
- 1966,68,70,73,75,78 Dawson Gallery, Dublin
- 1968,69 Axiom Gallery London
- 1973,75 Luxembourg Gallery, Paris
- Tanit Gallery, Munich
- Pander Gallery, The Hague
- 1976 Lietzow Gallery, Berlin
- 1977 Origraphica, Malmo Sweden
- 1978 New Art Centre London
- Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast
- Estrup International Denmark
- 1979 Orchard Gallery, Derry
- 1979 The Douglas Hyde Gallery Trinity College, Dublin
- (Retrospective 1963 - 1978)
- 1979,81,89,94,96 Taylor Galleries, Dublin
- Crawford Galleries, Cork
- 1980 ROCS, Cork
- 1981 International Arts Fair, Stockholm (Champfleury Studio)
- International Arts Fair, Basel (Angela Flowers Gallery)
- Origrafica, Malmo
- 1982 Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
- Armidale Regional Art Gallery, NSW
- Angela Flowers, London
- 1984 Galerie im Schloss Pavillion, Munich
- Genevieve Maurin, Paris
- 1985,86,93 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
- 1987 CTT, Brussels
- 1988 Irish Institute for European Affairs, Leuven
- Galerie Ouverte, Paris
- 1989 AT Sweeney Two Artists with Brian Bourke, Origrafica, Stockholm
- Origrafica, Malmo
- 1990 Galerie Vannoni, Lyon
- Butler Gallery (Retrospecti!ve), Kilkenny
- Musee de la Montagne Noire, Rouairoux, France
- 1992 Origrafica, Malmo
- 1994 Pantaeon Gallery, Dublin
- 1995 Galerie Bosquet, Paris
- 1999 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
Group Exhibitions
- 1960 Young Contemporaries, London; 1964-66 Irish Exhibition of Living
Art, Dublin; 1965 Municipal Gallery of Modern Art Dublin; World's Fair
New York City; Young Painters' Salon Paris(Guest); Four London Painters,
Kelly Studio, Dallas USA; 1966 Minicipal Gallery of Modern Art Dublin;
1967 Young People's Biennial Festival, Paris; Edinburgh OPEN 100; 1968
Travelling Exhibition of the Paris Young People's Biennial Festival Award
winners; Belfast Open Exhibition; Kunsthalle Dusseldorf Germany; Monstra
Mercato d'Arte Contemporanea, Florence Italy; 1st International Biennial
Engraving Festival, Liege; 3rd Biennial Engraving Festival, Ljubljana,
Yugoslavia; Travelling Exhibition of Irish Contemporary Art, Finland and
Sweden; Art & Conscience, Dublin; 1969-70 Oireachtas, Dublin; 1970
3rd International Graphis Festival , Cracow Poland; 2nd International Original
Drawing Exhibition, Rijeka, Yugoslavia; 1971 Indian Triennial Festival,
New Delhi; Municipal Gallery of Modern Art Dublin; Galway Museum; 1972
Today's Great People and Youth Salon, Paris; Irish Imagination , Boston,
Philadelphia & Washington; Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh; Lunds Sweden;
3rd Biennial Engraving Festival, Florence; Group Exhibition Galerie du
Luxembourg; Tourmarkine Gallery, Paris; Contemporary Irish Art, Museum
of Modern Art, Paris; Municipal Gallery Dublin; Young European Artists,
Beyrouth; Exhibition Group, Tanit Gallery, Munich;1973 European Biennial
Engraving Festival, Mulhouse; 4th Biennial International Graphic Art Festival,
Strozzi Palace, Florence; Oireachtas, Dublin; 1974 First Parisian Contemporary
Art Fair; Irish Travelling Direction USA (Boston, Washington & New
York); 1st Biennial Graphic Art Festival, Frenchen BD Germany; European
Artists, Tanit Gallery, Beyrouth; 1975 November in Vitry (France); Ausfuhrung
Studio Meixner, Adelsdort; 1976 Irish Living Art, DublÓin; Oireachtas,
Dublin; Grafik '76 Berlin; Basel Fair; Jean Briance Gallery, Paris; 1977
Tanit Gallery, 5th Anniversary, Munich; 1978 The Irish Exhibition Gallery
7, Stockholm; The Greatest of Nine, Grand Palais, Paris; 1979 The Irish
Exhibition, Birmingham, Alabama; 1980 Grafik '80 Berlin; Left Bank Galerie
du Centre de l'Art (Paris); Biblioteque Nationale Estampes 45-79 (France);
A Sense of Ireland, Round House, London; Angela Flowers London; ROSC, Cork,
Irish Art 1941-73; 1981 14th Print Biennial Festival, Yugoslavia; International
Art Fair, Champfleury Studios Stockholm; International Art Fair, Basel;
1983 Montrouge Salon (France); 1985 Mosman, Sydney; The Blake Prize, Sydney;
Muswellbrook Art Prize, NSW; Michel Vidal, Paris; James Mayor Gallery,
Paris; Blake - Farrell - Paladino; 1986 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney (twice);
Art Fair, Paris; Galerie Verniere Lyons; 1987 Western Artists, Galway Ireland;
John Taylor Galleries Dublin; CTT, Brussels; Irish Artists, Brussels; 1988
Galerie OuvÂerte (France); Dublin Graphic Studio Galleries; Taylor
Galleries; 1989 Malmo, Sweden; Vannoni; 1990 Images of Ireland, Brussels;
Gallagher Hibernian Galleries; Dublin EEC; Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney;
Soviet-Irish Exhibition,Dublin; 1992 Mono Print, The Dublin Graphic Studio;
Origrafica, Malmo;Vogglers Paris: 1993 Oireactus, Dublin; Butler Gallery,
Ireland; Kilkenny; Quebec; Musee Fugi, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Dublin;
1994 Printing in France; 1995 Seville; Barcelona; Luxembourg, Poland; St
Petersburg; Western Landscape, Cork; French Embassy, Lima Peru; 1996 The
French Connection, Bantry Co Cork; The Living Landscape, Skibbereen; 1997
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan; Mikaka City Gallery of Art, Japan;
Vamanshi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan; 1998 Moseo Revoltella; James
Joyce 16 Juin Bloom's Day Rome; Padua James Joyce; Taylor Galleries "The
Great Potato Famine 1847-52" and "Bloody Sunday", "The
Wounded Wonder".