Sean
COTTER
EDUCATION
1987-1991 National College of Art and Design
QUALIFICATIONS
Associate of NCAD (1991)
Hon.s Degree; Painting (1991)
Foundation Certificate (1987)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
Painted Tales - Wicklow County Buildings
2005
Painted Tales – Hallward Gallery Dublin
New Paintings – Droichead Arts Centre Drogheda
Paintings and Drawings, Draiocht, Blanchardstown
Eigse- Carlow Festival of Visual Art
2004
Horizons- Norman Villa Gallery, Galway
Paintings-Hallward Gallery, Dublin
2003
New Paintings-Barbara Stanley Gallery, London
Borderlines- Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge
2002
Corvidophilia – Hallward Gallery, Dublin
2001
Corvidophilia – Galway Arts Centre
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006
Iomha - Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda
Basement Gallery, Dundalk
Patruunagaleria, Lapua, Finland
2004
Iomha – Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda
Basement Gallery, Dundalk
Selected Irish Artists – Arklow Arts Centre, Arklow
Irish Artists – Barbara Stanley Gallery, London
2003
Collyer-Bristow, Holborn, London
2002
Hallward Gallery Christmas Exhibition, Dublin
2002-4
Hallward Gallery Summer Exhibition, Dublin
2000
Frames – Town Hall Theatre, Galway
AWARDS
Kildare Corporation Touring Grant (1996)
Arts Council/Aer Lingus Arts Flight Award (1996/1997)
Galway Corporation Exhibition Grant (1995)
Erasmus Grant (1990)
SELECTED REVIEWS
Sunday Times 26/5/98
Samstag, Kultur Regional 8/3/97
Circa, Autumn/96
Irish Times 22/11/96
Irish Times 23/2/96
City Tribune 15/12/95
Irish Times 15/9/95
COLLECTIONS
College of Humanities, Limerick
Office of Public Works Galway, Kilkenny and Dublin
Iarnrod Eireann, Galway
AXA Insurance
Irish Contempary Arts Society
Galerie L’Embarcadere, Lyon, France
Michael D. Higgins, Galway
Kildare County Council
Wicklow County Council
Patruunagalleria, Vanha Paukku Cultural Centre, Lapua, Finland
Dundalk Town Council
Drogheda Chamber of Commerce
Private collections in Ireland, England, Scotland,
France and the United States
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Painting for me is a purely personal language and as such requires a great deal of the viewer. To have to learn a new language, or at the very least a new dialect, each time they see a different painter can be an obstacle to reading a painting. It is a purely personal and sometimes introspective way of approaching the world and trying to make some sense of what life is about and how best to see it.
The act of painting is in itself an emotional drama that plays out on the canvas. In fact, I feel my life is written in the paintings of yesteryear. I use colour, tone, line and texture to try and communicate the emotional highs and lows of life. While not all paintings can be equally successful, every once in a while I feel I do realise on canvas the love, confusion or frustration that everyone experiences in life.
