Solomon is delighted to host its first solo exhibition of recent works on canvas and paper by artist Michael Wann. In Void Pastoral, Wann presents us with a new collection of charcoal landscape where the themes of boundary and perimeter are central.
In this exhibition we see Wann use landscape as a metaphor and drawing as a vehicle for an underlying augury of environmental anxiety. Through an emotive resonance of light and shade, the mostly unpopulated 'everyday' rural settings in Wann’s compositions are charged with unease and a disquiet of perspective. Temporal moments of weather speak of memory and place, of pictorial space, and the mapping of terrain.
Currently based in Sligo, Michael Wann was born in Dublin in 1969. He studied at Sligo IT, graduating with a Diploma in Fine Art in 1992, and a Bachelor in Fine Art in 2003. Wann has exhibited widely in Ireland, including solo exhibitions in the RHA, The Model, Sligo, Custom House, Westport, Solstice, Navan, Draiocht, Dublin, and Claremorris Gallery, Co. Mayo. A regular exhibitor at the RHA's Annual Exhibition, he was awarded the AXA Insurance Drawing Prize in 2006, and the ESB Sean Keating Prize and RHA Silver Medal in 2016. In 2010 he was selected for the Tom Caldwell Drawing Prize and the Inaugural Rowel Friers Perpetual Trophy at the Royal Ulster Academy's Annual Exhibition; and in 2012 awarded a Merit Prize from the Trustees of The Golden Fleece.
Wann’s work is included in public collections such as the Boyle Civic Collection, Waterford Municipal Collection, Office of Public Works, Mayo County Council, Fingal County Council, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, AXA Insurance and the Ballinglen Archive, as well as private collections in Ireland, UK, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
Michael Wann: Void Pastoral
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Michael WannShadow Bearing, 2022charcoal & wash on canvas100 x 120cm€ 7,200.00MW012 -
Michael WannPerimeter Light, 2022charcoal & wash on canvas100 x 120cm€ 7,200.00MW017
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Michael WannBound for Higher Groundcharcoal & wash on canvas100 x 120cm€ 7,200.00MW022
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Michael WannThe Beaten Track, 2022charcoal and wash on canvas100 x 120cmMW052
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Michael WannEnclave, 2022charcoal & wash on canvas100 x 100cm€ 6,400.00MW013
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Michael WannSilent Orchard, 2022charcoal & wash on canvas100 x 100cm€ 6,400.00MW014
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Michael WannWoodlet, 2022charcoal & wash on canvas100 x 100cmMW016
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Michael WannShadow Confines, 2022charcoal & wash on canvas100 x 100cm€ 6,400.00MW018
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Michael WannOuter Edge, 2022charcoal & wash on canvas100 x 100cm€ 6,400.00MW019
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Michael WannArboretum, 2022charcoal & wash on canvas100 x 100cmMW021
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Michael WannBivouac, 2022charcoal & wash on canvas90 x 90cm€ 6,000.00MW015
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Michael WannImminent Flood, 2020charcoal & wash on paper70 x 100cmMW053
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Michael WannVanishing Point, 2021charcoal & wash on paper70 x 100cmMW054
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Michael WannThe Long Roadcharcoal & wash on distressed Fabriano paper50 x 70cmMW020
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Michael WannOut There the Island, 2017charcoal & wash on paper50 x 70cmMW023
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Michael WannThe River, 2019charcoal & wash on paper50 x 70cm€ 2,600.00MW024
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Michael WannBack Road Home, 2017charcoal & wash on paper50 x 70cmMW025
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Michael WannThe Beach (after Constable), 2022charcoal & wash on paper50 x 70cmMW026
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Michael WannThe Disquiet, 2019charcoal & wash on paper50 x 70cm€ 2,600.00MW027
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Michael WannThis Mottled Land, 2022charcoal & wash on paper50 x 70cmMW028
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Michael WannThe Parish Bounds, 2017charcoal & wash on paper50 x 70cmMW029
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Michael WannOmens, 2017charcoal & wash on paper50 x 70cm€ 2,600.00MW030
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Michael WannCooke's Godbeams, 2017charcoal & wash on paper50 x 70cm€ 2,600.00MW031
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Michael WannSomething in the Air, 2017charcoal & wash on paper50 x 70cmMW032
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Michael WannDraining the Land, 2020-22charcoal & wash on paper50 x 70cm€ 2,600.00MW033
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Michael WannDividing Waters, 2022charcoal & wash on paper50 x 70cm€ 2,600.00MW034
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Michael WannVincent's Garden, 2022charcoal & wash on paper50 x 70cmMW035
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Michael WannPrevailing Winds, 2022charcoal & wash on paper50 x 70cmMW036
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Michael WannThoroughfare, 2022charcoal & wash on paper50 x 70cmMW037
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Michael WannLast Light of Evening, 2022charcoal & wash on paper50 x 70cmMW039
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Michael WannBog Weather, 2019charcoal & wash on paper50 x 70cm€ 2,600.00MW038
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Michael WannA Tree for Constable, Cornfield, 2018charcoal & wash on paper35 x 43cmMW043
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Michael WannA Tree for Constable, Vale, 2019charcoal & wash on paper35 x 43cmMW044
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Michael WannViral Landscape, Road to Water 1, 2020charcoal & wash on paper30 x 40cmMW042
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Michael WannViral Landscape, Road to Water 2, 2020charcoal & wash on paper30 x 40cmMW041
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Michael WannViral Landscape, Road to Water 3, 2020charcoal & wash on paper30 x 40cmMW045
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Michael WannViral Landscape, Road to Water 4, 2020charcoal & wash on paper30 x 40cmMW040
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Michael WannMongrel Weather, 2019charcoal & wash on paper25 x 35cmMW046
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Michael WannSeptember Shadows, 2019charcoal & wash on paper25 x 35cmMW047
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Michael WannThe Reed Bed (after Dermot Healy), 2021charcoal & wash on paper25 x 35cmMW048
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Michael WannWaters Rising, 2021charcoal & wash on paper25 x 35cmMW049
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Michael WannBorder Floodlands, 2019charcoal & wash on paper25 x 35cmMW050
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Michael WannLand Divided, 2021charcoal & wash on paper25 x 35cmMW051
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CATALOGUES
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REVIEWS / PRESS / MEDIA
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The Irish Times: Dublin is full of art in the city this month
Michael Wann: Void Pastoral July 9, 2022Currently exhibiting at the Solomon Fine Art Gallery, next door to the Westbury Hotel on Balfe Street, is the first solo show of recent works by Michael Wann. Entitled Void... -
Michael Wann: Not In Alphabetical Order
Fingal County Council Collection Catalogue June 1, 2019Access the catalogue in full here: http://fingalarts.ie/resources/NiAO2_240x300mm_80pp+Cover_LowRes.pdf -
Michael Wann: Irish Arts Review
Brenda Moore-McCann visits Sligo-based artist Michael Wann (Spring 2016 issue) May 1, 2016IRISH ARTS REVIEW Michael Wann “In a Garden I Once Knew” exhibition Cross Gallery, April 17th -May 7th 2016. We draw to see what we think Brian O’Doherty Eye and... -
Michael Wann: Irish Times Review
by chief critic Aidan Dunne (May 2016) May 16, 2016Visual art: Three different ways to pass the Francis Bacon test A talented trio focus on plants, backwoods scenes and crumbling facades By Aidan Dunne Tue May 3 2016 THE... -
Michael Wann: Meet the Artist
Draoicht, Dublin April 14, 2011Meet the Artist - Michael Wann 14 April 2011 Wann’s work is specifically drawing-based, and juxtaposes arbitrary or transient images of cleared landscape, with more thought provoking depictions of the...
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