Eoghain Phelan
Eoghain studied Architecture at the Kent Institute of Art & Design at Canterbury, England, graduating in 2000 and returned to Dublin to work in the industry during a busy period . As an Artist Eoghain is self taught and started painting full-time in 2009. Shortly after that Eoghain took a studio at Moxie Studios, Dublin, the studios attached to the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art. Moxie Studios has one of the highest concentrations of artists and designers on one site in Ireland, currently home to over 60 artists.
In late 2010 Eoghain joined City Artsquad. Eoghain has worked with different community groups including a number of Dublin City Council hostels and St John of Gods Menni services, Bluebell facilitating art workshops with residents and clients and also completing a number of murals. He is soon to start work with the Willow Grove Unit at St. Patricks Hospital.
Since joining Artsquad he has run two Pop-Up Galleries at the Wicklow Arts Festival Fringe and Kilkenny Arts Festival Fringe where it won the Best Exhibition of the Kilkenny Fringe Festival Award. The work for both shows was by artists from City Artsquad and Moxie Studios.
In late 2010 Eoghain joined City Artsquad. Eoghain has worked with different community groups including a number of Dublin City Council hostels and St John of Gods Menni services, Bluebell facilitating art workshops with residents and clients and also completing a number of murals. He is soon to start work with the Willow Grove Unit at St. Patricks Hospital.
Since joining Artsquad he has run two Pop-Up Galleries at the Wicklow Arts Festival Fringe and Kilkenny Arts Festival Fringe where it won the Best Exhibition of the Kilkenny Fringe Festival Award. The work for both shows was by artists from City Artsquad and Moxie Studios.
13 North Great Georges Street, Dublin
Look Up ( ii )
Acrylic on Canvas
Eoghains work is highly influenced by his time in Architecture and the built environment, generally of Dublin, fills his subject matter. Currently his work is exploring the decay of Georgian Dublin, using a sketch and photographic study of one particular Georgian house, 13 North Great Georges Street, to produce a body of work in paint showing that through the decay, building can almost tell the story of it's history. The paintings almost invite the viewer to create the story of the house for themselves.
Eoghain hopes to continue running the gallery in it's pop- up form allowing artists from both Moxie Studios & City Artsquad to show their work regularly to a wider Irish public. He hopes to be able to put something together to run for a week or ten days during the upcoming Dublin Contemporary, again as a fringe event as he feels that on the fringe allows for a greater diversity of work away from any official themes.
http://eoghainphelanart.yolasite.com
Eoghain hopes to continue running the gallery in it's pop- up form allowing artists from both Moxie Studios & City Artsquad to show their work regularly to a wider Irish public. He hopes to be able to put something together to run for a week or ten days during the upcoming Dublin Contemporary, again as a fringe event as he feels that on the fringe allows for a greater diversity of work away from any official themes.
http://eoghainphelanart.yolasite.com
