Frances
FAGAN
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Art, June 2002 – Galway Institute of Technology, Galway
EXHIBITIONS
2007
Galway Arts Festival – Galway Technical Institute, Galway
Group show with Artspace
Artmines, Artists Studio Trail
Open Studio as part of the Rathmines Arts Festival
The Printmakers Gallery, Drury Street, Dublin 2
Gallery Representation
2005
Blank_Space, 374 Crown Street, Surry Hills, Sydney
Group Exhibition
Café Mint , 579 Crown Street, Surry Hills, Sydney
Solo Show
2004
The Life Coaching Centre, 44 Westland Row, Dublin 2
Solo Show
Café Fresh, Top Floor, Powerscourt Townhouse Centre, South William Street,Dublin 2
Solo Show
Ard Bia Café, Quay Street Galway
Solo Show
2003
Massimo Bar Galway City
Solo Show
Galway Arts Festival – Art Trail
Windows of City Library, St. Augustine St., Galway
Inishbofin Community Arts Festival
Group Exhibition
2002
Tulca Arts Festival, Galway (in conjunction with the European exhibition, Imagination – Romantic, organized by Galway Arts Centre)
Artspace 1, Galway Airport
Group Exhibition
Artspace 11, An Taibhdhearc Gallery, Galway City
Group Exhibition
Impressions National Print Exhibition
Galway Arts Centre
RDS Student Art Award Scheme and Traveling Exhibition 2002
Kerrygold Horse Show, RDS
Church Gallery, Limerick Institute of Technology
Ulster University Gallery, Belfast
Cluain Mhuire Campus, GMIT
2001
Cluain Mhuire Campus, GMIT
COLLECTIONS
OPW (Office of Public Works)
HETEC
Radisson Hotel, Galway
Private collectors, Ireland, America and Australia
Memberships:
I am a past member with Artspace
I am an associate member of Panda Press – London
I am a past member of GYT – Galway Youth Theatre
I am a member of La Touche Players – Dublin
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I paint to express my increasing and continuous observation of my surroundings. This is communicated mostly from juxtaposed angles of architectural building located around the city scapes of the manmade world. I combine these shapes with colours to complete selective compositions.
I am interested in colour relationships, I am beginning to explore colours that I would not necessarily have used before – and are almost a direst reverse of the colour scheme emanated from the architecture and streets themselves – although subconsciously I may soak in the colour choice as a result of walking through the streets from advertising on billboards/bus stops/articulated lorries etc.
This is then translated onto the canvas in bold shapes. I apply underlining effects by overlapping and dry brushing. I place flat surfaces against textured surfaces to echo the existence of this in my surroundings. I use a variety of materials to create different marks on the surface and beneath the painting.
