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Biography
Robert lives and works in Dublin. He attended IADT, Dun Laoghaire from 1979 where he specialised in sculpture but also worked in painting and print, winning a prize for painting in the Taylor Art Competition in 1980. He also received the Alfred Beit Award and the Norah McGuinness Award before graduating in 1993.
His work is in the collections of The National Gallery of Ireland, The Chester Beatty Library, The British Library.
Robert is Studio Director and Master Printer at Graphic Studio Dublin since 2007. He has collaborated with many artists guiding them through printmaking processes to expand their art practices and realise new works using printmaking techniques including etching, screen print, woodcut, lino-print, mezzotint, carborundum and photo intaglio.
Exhibitions;
2020: Invited to exhibit in 190th RHA annual exhibition
Invited to exhibit in Galleri Helle Knudsen, Sweden
2019: Royal West of England Academy
Royal Hibernian Academy
Royal Ulster Academy
Discover Print 19, Greenacres gallery
Master Print, Graphic Studio Dublin
Ulysses Haiku Project, The James Joyce Centre
2018: Drawing From Joyce, Olivier Cornet Gallery
Royal Hibernian Academy
Wexford Arts Festival, Greenacres Gallery
2017: Invited to exhibit at Royal Hibernian Academy
Wexford Arts Festival, Greenacres Gallery
2013: Shaping Identities Together, The Leuven Institute, Belgium
2010: Golden Anniversary Exhibition (GSD), Farmleigh Gallery.
2009: Île d’Hiver/Winter Island, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.
2008: Artist Proof, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
2005: Gardens of Earthly Delight, Chester Beatty Library.
2004: Motion/Pause, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2002: Holy Show, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
2001: Ireland France Print exchange, Paris
1999: Vision of Music, Original Print Gallery, Dublin
1998: Art into Art, Nationl Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
1993: RHA Banquet Show, RHA Gallery, Dublin.