Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill

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Biography

Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill is a silversmith based in Sheffield, England. Born in Dublin, he trained at Grennan Mill craft school and Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 1996. He subsequently worked as a designer for industry in India, the Philippines, and the UK before setting up a workshop in Kilkenny, Ireland. In 1998, he moved to Tokyo, to study in the metalwork department at the National University of Art and Music (Tokyo Geidai), receiving a doctorate in 2005 for research into traditional Japanese metalwork techniques.

Ó Dubhghaill’s work focuses on the exploration of vessel forms through a study of process, materials and colour. He exhibits this work internationally, has had solo exhibitions in the Netherlands and the UK, shows regularly at International Art Fairs and has work in a number of public collections including the National Museum of Ireland, the Goldsmiths’ Modern Collection, London, the Marzee Collection, Netherlands and the Ireland Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland – Foreign Embassies Collection. He has lectured at NCAD, Dublin, Edinburgh College of Art, London Metropolitan University, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University and Tokyo Geidai, Tama Art University, Japan.

 

Solo Exhibitions
2016 Transmutation, Galerie Marzee, Netherlands
2011 Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill, Galerie Marzee, Netherlands
2010 Focus, Contemporary Applied Arts, London
2008 Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2006 Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill, Galerie Marzee, Netherlands

Selected Exhibitions
2019 Surface Matters, The Coach House, Dublin Castle, Ireland
2019-2018 European Prize for Applied Arts, Site des Anciens Abattoirs, Mons, Belgium
2019 The National Design and Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
2018 Melting Point, Makers’ Guild in Wales, Cardiff
2018 Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London
2017 Tresor, Messe Basel, Switzerland
2017 Forged, Galerie Handwerk, Munich
2017 Narratives in Making, National Design and Craft Gallery, Kilkenny
2017 Objets, Mes Amis, Artmonte-carlo, Monaco
2017 Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London
2017 TASTE at Artgenève, Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland
2016 In Residence II, Oliver Sears Gallery, 33 Fitzroy Square, London
2016 Women’s Stories & Emblems 1916-2016, Galway City Museum, Ireland
2015 Finders and Keepers, dlr Lexicon Municipal Gallery, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin
2015 Portfolio, Solomon FIne Art, Dublin
2015 In Residence, Oliver Sears Gallery, Six Fitzroy Square, London
2015 The Silversmith’s Art, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
2015 Modern Masters, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2015 Aesthetics of Manufacture II, Butcher Works, Sheffield
2015 Side by Side, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France
2015 Meister der Moderne, IHM, Munich, Germany
2014 Vase, Vessel, Void, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin
2014 Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London
2013 FIVE INTO FOUR, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2012 dubh / dialogues in Black, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, Ireland and American Irish Historical Society, New York, USA
2012 domesticMATTERS – Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK
2010 Treasures of Today, National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
2008 Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2007/8 Silver of the Stars, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; The World Art Museum, Beijing; The Museum of Kyoto, The National Museum of Scotland, UK / Russia / China / Japan

Awards and Scholarships
2019 Shortlisted, European Prize for Applied Arts
2015 Bavarian State Prize, Germany
2009 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts
2008 Shortlisted, National Metalwork Design Award, Museums Sheffield
2007 – 2010 AHRC Fellowship
2007 Sasakawa Foundation grant
2006 Special Merit Award, Golden Fleece, Ireland
1998 – 2005 Monbusho Scholarship, Japan
1997 Work-study Scholarship, Penland School Of Crafts, USA
1997 Ronald J. Pearson Scholarship, Haystack School of Crafts, USA
1996 Birmingham Assay Office, Silver Design Award
1996 Designer Silversmith Awards, Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, U.K. (Highly Commended)