Yoko Akino, The Coming of Wisdom with Time
SO Fine Art Editions announces its upcoming show, a Winter Exhibition, featuring new works from over thirty gallery artists. The exhibition begins 28 November and runs until 17 January. See www.sofinearteditions.com/winter-exhibition-2014 for more information and images from the show.
November Issue of Totally Dublin
SO Fine Art Editions is delighted to be featured in the Open Your Dublin section of Totally Dublin magazine this month. In Open Your Dublin city residents choose some of their favourite spots in Dublin for art, culture, food, and more. This month Rubio from Hang Tough Framing chose SO Fine Arts as a place to “get off the beaten track and feel inspired”. You can read more of his recommendations in this month’s Totally Dublin.
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SO Fine Art Editions was pleased to provide all artworks for the Ideal Home Showhouse at the RDS this year. View how artworks bring a room together in this video of the Showhouse from Optimise Design and DFS. Works shown from Michael Canning, Jack Doherty, Richard Gorman, Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin, Howard Hodgkin, John Kelly, Eva Kerek, Stephen Lawlor, James McCreary, Ruth O’Donnell, Owen Quinlan, Barbara Rae, Eva Vilne, and Kate Whiteford.
Click through the gallery for some bright ideas for your house!. Please contact SO Fine Art Editions for a free consultation and let’s see what we can do to make your home ideal.
SO Fine Art Editions will be presenting works at VUE, the national contemporary art fair. We will be bringing new works from our gallery artists, including John Kelly, Stephen Lawlor and Barbara Rae. The gallery is also delighted to launch our first published print. This lithograph from award winning portrait artist Colin Davidson captures one of Northern Ireland’s most revered poets, Michael Longley. SO Fine Art Editions will also be presenting applied arts and ceramics, including exclusive works from Alison Lowry and Owen Quinlan.
VUE opens tonight, 6pm to 9pm
VUE is open:
Friday, 31 October, 11am – 8pm
Saturday, 1 November, 11am – 7pm
Sunday, 2 November, 12pm-6pm
VUE will be held at the Royal Hibernian Academy, located at 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2.
Admission to VUE is free.
Look forward to seeing you at our booth.
SO Fine Art Editions was mentioned on the Irish Times’ online feature ‘Bargain Hunter’, where author Alanna Gallagher finds the latest in interior trends. You can read all Alanna Gallagher’s recommendations and see her favourite piece from our gallery here.
Paul Gaffney, Untitled from the series We Make the Path by Walking
Artdependence Magazine interviewed Paul Gaffney and asked the photographer about creating his celebrated book.
Paul Gaffney is an Irish artist whose self-published book We Make the Path by Walking was nominated for the Photobook Award 2013 at the sixth International Photobook Festival in Kassel, Germany, and shortlisted for the European Publishers Award for Photography 2013. The book was selected for several ‘Best Photobooks of 2013’ lists, including Photo-Eye and British Journal of Photography.
Read the interview with Paul Gaffney here.
Anita Groener, After Somewhere Else
SO Fine Art Editions is pleased to present prints from Anita Groener. Groener is a Dublin based artist whose work has been exhibited in the Gallery of Photography, Royal Hibernian Academy, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and internationally. She is a member of Aosdána and was the Head of Fine Art at Dublin Institute of Technology from 2004-2006.
See Anita Groener’s work at SO Fine Art Editions.
O’Donnell + Tuomey, Falling Dansu
Congratulations to O’Donnell + Tuomey, who have been shortlisted for the 2014 RIBA Stirling Prize for their design of the London School of Economics Saw Swee Hock Student Centre.
The Stirling Prize is given by the Royal Institute of British Architects and considered the most prestigious architecture award in the United Kingdom. The prize is awarded to the architects of the building which has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year.
The design team has also won the RIBA Gold Medal, the lifetime achievement award, which is approved personally by the Queen and is given to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence ‘either directly or indirectly on the advancement of architecture’.
You can view the work of O’Donnell + Tuomey at SO Fine Art Editions with their ‘Falling Dansu’ bureau, a piece that transforms the traditional bureau desk. Executed in ash, suspended via wall-mount, the writing surface flips open to reveal an inviting array of nooks and crannies.
Click here for more information on the Stirling Prize.
Click here for more information on the RIBA Gold Medal.
Cillian Ó Súilleabháin, Cube Box Birch
Furniture designer and wood turner Cillian Ó Súilleabháin is making news for his innovative designs which were being shown at the London Design Festival and Wallpaper* Magazine’s open house.
A chest of drawers from Ó Súilleabháin, Tetrahedra, will be part of Wallpaper* magazine’s open house in London. The Wallpaper* editors have designed an apartment at 155 Sloane Street which will be on view to the public in October. The open house is a great opportunity to meet the Wallpaper* team and get a tour of the apartment which features works and bespoke pieces by leading designers, artists, makers and brands.
See more information on the Wallpaper* Open House.
Ó Súilleabháin was also featured on the Financial Times website and Image.ie for his work in the Tent London. The annual design trade show Tent London is one of the most creative hubs of the London Design Festival, featuring the best in contemporary design.
Read the Financial Times article on Tent London.
Read Image.ie’s article on the London Design Festival.
Colin Davidson is a contemporary artist, living and working near Belfast, Northern Ireland. Davidson is best known for his series of large-scale portrait heads. The painting Just Sharp Reminding (Portrait of Duke Special) was awarded the Ireland – US Council and Irish Arts Review Award at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin in June 2010, and the painting Thread the Light (Portrait of Glen Hansard) was awarded the Perpetual Gold Medal at the Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast in October 2010. The painting Pure To Another (Portrait of Brian Kennedy) was awarded the Perpetual Gold Medal at the Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast in October 2011. Davidson’s work is held is several private and public collections, among them the British Broadcasting Corporation, The National Gallery of Ireland, and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Fergus Bourke, The Bottle Throwers
Fergus Bourke’s The Bottle Throwers is now part of the David Kronn Collection at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. This collection comprises of more than 550 photographs ranging in content from 19th-century Daguerreotypes to works by icons of modern photography. In 2011, IMMA staged the first exhibition from this collection, and on August 2, 2014 opened Second Sight, a further view of works amassed by Dr. David Kronn. The exhibition includes many images of Ireland in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, a period in which “The Bottle Throwers” was taken, and juxtaposes them with contemporary photographs. Second Sight is on view now through November 9, 2014, and more information can be found here. See work from Fergus Bourke at SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin.
Helena Malone, Savage Beauty Necklace
Jewellery designer Helena Malone is featured in our current exhibition Amárach/Interplay with her Savage Beauty series of works. Malone is an award winning artist who considers the jewellery making process a journey in itself. For this series she was inspired by Louis Le Brocquy’s Tain, and chose to make organic and textural pieces cast in the shapes of branches and thorns.
Malone was interviewed on her craft by RTÉ where she speaks of how she started on her career path and what inspires her pieces. The full interview can be seen here.
See Helena Malone’s work in Amárach/Interplay, on now at SO Fine Art Editions.