Gerard dillon biography

In , his first solo exhibition was opened by his friend and fellow artist, Mainie Jellett at The Country Shop, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. Despite a growing reputation, he had to return to London in to work on demolition gangs to restore his finances. In the late s and during the s, Dillon found himself favouring the town of Roundstone , Connemara.

In he was introduced to Noreen Rice by her piano teacher. She had no formal training and she took Dillon and George Campbell as her mentors for decades and her work was of a similar surrealistic and primitive style. In , he had the double honour of representing Ireland at the Guggenheim International , and Great Britain at the Pittsburg International Exhibition.

They let off part of the house to Arthur Armstrong and they let a flat to Noreen Rice and her brother. He and Noreen would tour junk yards to find objects like leather and string that they included in their artwork. He travelled widely in Europe and taught for brief periods in the London art schools. In , Dillon suffered a stroke and spent six weeks in hospital, from this time his work changed direction.

A notion of imminent death sent his work almost into another world, a realm of dreams and paintings intimating his death. In , Dillon pulled his artworks from the Belfast leg of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in purported protest during the Troubles against the "arrogance of the Unionist mob". During his last years, Dillon was invited to be involved in a children's art workshop in the National Gallery of Ireland.

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Gerard dillon biography

He travelled widely in Europe and taught for brief spells at London art schools. In , Gerard Dillon had a stroke which, in addition to the premature deaths of three of his brothers, made him forsee his own demise. As a result his work began to include a wealth of images and paintings intimating his death. Four years later he suffered a second fatal stroke at the age of At his request, his grave, in Belfast's Milltown Cemetery remains unmarked.

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