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Hanley RHA, James
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James Hanley RHA
b Dublin 1965
James Hanley was elected to the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2001, when he became Secretary of the organisation, a role he still holds. He was a member of the Cultural Relations Committee at the Department of the Arts, Tourism and Sport (formerly under the aegis of the Department of Foreign Affairs) from 1999 to 2004. He worked as a tutor and lecturer at the National College of Art and Design from 1995 to 1998, and also at the National Gallery from 1990 to the present.
James is married and lives in Dublin, where he works from a studio he built at home as well as from a space in the city centre, producing his own ongoing work as well as portraits and commissions.
Education
1984-1987 University College Dublin
1987-1991 National College of Art & Design, Dublin
1990 Exchange Student, Glasgow School of Art
Solo Exhibitions
1992 Natural Disasters, Riverrun Gallery, Dublin
1995 White Lies, Hallward Gallery, Dublin
1997 Grand Tourists, Hallward Gallery, Dublin
1999 Paper Tigers, Stalking Horses, Hallward Gallery, Dublin
2000 Works on Paper, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise
2004 Souvenir, Solomon Gallery, Dublin
Group Exhibitions (selected)
1990 Royal Scottish Academy, Student Show, Edinburgh
1991 Claremorris Open Exhibition
Taylor Art Awards, RDS
1994 Germinations 8: European Biennale of Young Artists.
Breda, Warsaw, Athens, Madrid
1995 Dublin/Akureyri: Guggi, James Hanley, K-Foundation, Jackie Stanley. Municipal Art Museum of Akureyri, Iceland
1996 NCAD 250. Drawing Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Innovations from Tradition. Recent Irish Art, EU HQ, Brussels
Junge Kunst International 96, Young European Contemporaries
Overbeck-Gesselschaft, Lubeck
1997 AIB on Tour, Model Arts Centre, Sligo
Figurative Image, West Cork Arts Centre
Eigse, Carlow Arts Festival
1998 When Time Began to Rant and Rage, Figurative Painting from 20th Century Ireland. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Michigan State University & Berkeley CA
1999 Florence Biennale
2000 An Artists' Century. RHA Gallagher Gallery, Ormeau Baths, Belfast
2001 EnVisage. IMMA & tour
2002 Holy Show. Chester Beatty Library & tour
2003 Original Print Gallery
2004 An Irish Eye: Landscape of Fact & Imagination, Cape Town
In the Time of Shaking. Irish Art for Amnesty, IMMA
Collections (selected)
Abbey Theatre
Allied Irish Bank
Athlone RTC
AXA Insurance
Contemporary Irish Arts Society
Dail Eireann
European Parliament, Strasbourg
Gaiety Theatre
IMMA
Irish Life & Permanent Plc
Mater Hospital
McKee Barracks
Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business
Military College, Curragh Camp
National Gallery of Ireland
National Lottery
National Self-Portrait Collection
OPW
Portmarnock Golf Club
Pro Cathedral House
Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Royal Dublin Society
Royal Hibernian Academy
University College Dublin
University of Limerick
Wesley College
Orla Dukes on his previous solo exhibition at the Solomon Gallery
This exhibition of small-scale landscapes is based on a series of images drawn from disparate memories and experiences. Identical in format, seen through a blue aperture on 16 x 20 canvases, these landscapes are united in shape but differ vastly in their content. A close-up sits alongside a panoramic vista, a quiet corner of a Cretan cemetery sits near a sweeping Italian viaduct, which is close to a view over chimneys in a Dublin park – the jump in scale indicating that each approach and viewpoint is of equal importance, from the spectacular to the mundane, from the classic single point perspective to landscapes examined from all levels.
Drawn from local and foreign experiences, these images, collected by the artist through photographs and sketches, are not simply the record of travel. They are a selection of scenes that provoke an association or trigger a form of nostalgia for the familiar, seeing in one image the fleeting of a painting by Corot, or a classic John Hinde colour-saturated scene, or a dramatic cinema still. Each view has been selected because of something particular in its composition, colouring, perspective, that becomes a reminder or a memory of something beyond itself.
The artist is known for his use of narrative in his work, and while many of these images are simple and direct translations of sea, sky and land, the possibility of creating a story around each view is difficult to resist. Unlike the rest of his work, however, the figure is not the main way in to these paintings. Any figures in these works are as significant only as the trees, or gulls or statues, or any other element. Here the landscapes themselves are the characters to be read, providing a series of potential connections, narratives and questions, but finally remaining enigmatic in their simplicity.
Hanley’s work is in numerous public and private collections, including IMMA, The Arts Council, AIB and the European Parliament. He is also one of Ireland’s top portrait painters, completing the official State Portrait of An Taoiseach Mr Bertie Ahern TD.
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