Artist CV
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MacSearraigh
Kevin McSherry [b. 1962] Mobile: 086 247 0737 Email: kevin@mcsherry.ie Web: www.mcsherry.ie
Professional activities
2002: Accepted for 1 week in Cill Rialaig Project, Artists’ Retreat
2000-5: Chairman of Illustrators Guild of Ireland [IGI]
2007: Accepted for 2 weeks in Cill Rialaig Project, Artists’ Retreat.
2008: Accepted for 1 week Cill Rialaig Project
2010-11: Involved in Culture Night activities
Group Shows
2002: Co-curated and exhibited in the IGI’s first major group exhibition, ‘Illustration –the Art of Contemporary Illumination' Chester Beatty Library [European Museum of the Year 2002].
2003:Second group exhibition of IGI members ‘The Coloured Stuff’ Guinness Storehouse, Dublin
2007: Selected by jury to exhibit in show ‘Les Trésors Cachés de nos Artistes’ Musée de la Publicité, Le Louvre, Paris
2007: Invited to show in group exhibition: ‘A Nation’s Obsession: Illustration and Architecture in Ireland’s
Changing Economy’ in the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, Dublin.
2008: Exhibition ‘Resonance’ Alliance Française', with Culture Ireland, Centre Culturel. [Collège des Irlandais, Paris]. [My contribution entitled: A Bunch of Keys].
2008: ‘Candy Karaoke’ an exhibition of re-worked LP covers in association with Candy Culture.
2008: ‘SLANT: Imitation - flattery or battery?’, a collaboration between the Illustrators Guild of Ireland and the Association of Illustrators [UK]. Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.
2008: IGI sketchbook project.
2009: IGI/Offset exhibition [part of week of arts actiivities for Design Week]
2010: IGI/South Studios group exhibition 'Drawers' [by invitation]
2010: 'Circus', SoGo Festival group exhibition [by invitation]
2010: IGI/United Arts Club group exhibition [by invitation]
2010: IGI/South Studios group exhibition 'Laundry' [by invitation]
2011: IGI/United Arts Club select group exhibition [by invitation]
2011:RHA figure painting sessions summer term [by invitation]
2011: Trinity Gallery group exhibition, 'Elements' [by invitation]
2011: Illustration at Fire. Copper House gallery [by invitation]
2011: RHA Open Submissions exhibition
Solo Shows
1999: Les Années Acryliques Alliance Française, Dublin
2007: Marrow Envy & Other Stories, Alliance Française Dublin
2010: The Humours of MacSearraigh Sol Art Gallery, Dublin
Invited as visiting lecturer on the subject of illustration:
• National College of Art and Design
• DIT College of Marketing & Design, Mountjoy Square
• National Print College, Bolton Street
Professional memberships
• Illustrators Guild of Ireland
• IVARO [Irish Visual Artists’ Rights Organisation]
Awards: [Illustrators Guild of Ireland]
Best Editorial, best self-promotional 2004,
Best self-promotional, Best Overall (Grand Prix) 2005,
Best self-promotional 2006
