Fine Local Art on Display | Andrew Ireland

Migrating to Australia in 1985, Andrew Ireland is one of the Blue Mountains talented artist...

Glenella Guesthouse & Restaurant are both excited and proud to be displaying two fine pieces of art work from well know and respected local Blue Mountains artist Andrew Ireland. There are 6 pieces on display which are:

• Neranie Sands, Myall Lakes, oil on canvas, 1,800 x 970 mm, $6,500
• Pawn Shop, oil on canvas, 1,450 x 1,015 mm, $4,800
• Home Before the Storm, oil on canvas, 1,525 x 1,015 mm, $4,800
• In the Sunroom, oil on board, 1,200 x 900 mm, $4,200
• The Impeded View, oil on canvas, 450 x 380 mm, $1,250

Some of these painting mentioned above as well as his other works can be seen in our Photo Gallery.

Born & educated in Manchester, UK, Andrew Ireland undertook a Foundation Diploma in Fine Art at Salford Technical College and achieved a BA Honours Fine Art (1st Class) in Painitng and Printmaking at Brighton Polytechnic. After extensive travel through Europe Andrew migrated to Australia in 1985.

In 1986-1997 Ireland worked as an illustrator for the Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review, The Times on Sunday and The Australian. He was awarded The Bulletin's Black & White Artists’ ‘Best Humorous Illustrator Award’ in 1990 and in 1991 he successfully exhibited a solo show of his paintings at the Rex Irwin Gallery in Sydney.

During 1991-92 Ireland travelled to live and work in Italy, where he exhibited solo at Gallerie E5, Verona and Southern Gallery, Rome. He returned to Australia and continued to work as a painter/freelance illustrator. Ireland has been regularly involved and employed in art education: at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Newcastle, Sydney Graphics College, Billy Blue Design School, the University of Technology, Sydney, the University of Western Sydney and Blue Mountains Grammar School. His work has been purchased by many private collectors and Art Bank Australia.

Andrew Ireland, now a local Blue Mountains artist and lives and paints in Wentworth Falls and is a much-loved and highly-respected teacher of art at Korowal School in Leura.

Andrew Ireland’s diverse imagery focuses on the figurative in order to support his whimsical visual narratives; be they absurdist, ironic or quotidian observation. His paintings seek to weave a tale ... a tale layered in encrusted oil, wax and varnish. These essential elements have grown out of his early training and experimentation as a painter/printmaker. Alchemical reverse processes attract Ireland both in fable and in method. The paintings contain gently opposing forces; dream-like conundrums merge with observed realities, melancholia entwines with comedy and time drifts between the contemporary and the nostalgic.
Excerpt from exhibition catalogue, ‘Memories, Dreams and Reflections’,

Ireland’s solo exhibition of 53 works at Hat Hill Gallery in March 2008, ‘Memories, Dreams and Reflections’, was very well received, and, inspired by its sales success and enthusiastic reception, Andrew’s paintings will feature in the Hat Hill Gallery display at Art Sydney 08 (Art Sydney 07) later this year where it is anticipated that his works will make a powerful impression on Sydney’s fine art collectors.

The Blue Mountains is filled with lots of art galleries displaying interesting and excellent artwork by local Blue Mountains artisits. Spend a weekend in the Blue Mountains and explore these galleries and other attractions that are on offer here in the stunning Blue Mountains.

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