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Charles Tyrrell

CHARLES TYRRELL

b. 1950, Trim, Co. Meath

Tyrrell studied at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin.

His early large-scale canvases were influenced by American abstract expressionism and have since evolved with a more minimalist approach including restraining geometric forms. The prints in Lemonstreet are abstract explorations of geometric relationships where pure and simple squares bounded by borders are, on close examination, densely but finely textured on their surfaces.

Solo exhibitions include the Project Arts Centre, Dublin (1974, 75); West Cork Arts Centre (1990); Triskel Arts Centre (1992); Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (1994, 98) and many shows at the Taylor Galleries, Dublin throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Most recently he showed a collection of paintings and ink drawings on canvas, paper and aluminum in the Taylor and in the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny Castle in 2001-02, and the Royal Hibernian Academy's Gallagher Gallery held a retrospective of his work in 2000. He represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale in 1982, and has exhibited in major group exhibitions in Ireland and abroad, including L'Imaginaire Irlandais, Paris (1996); the Baghdad International Festival of Art (1988); the Oireachtas Exhibition (1973-78); the Irish Exhibition of Living Art (1972-82), winning its Carroll's Award in 1974; and the Cagnes-sūr-Mer painting festival (1981), where he won a jury's special mention.

He taught at the Dun Laoghaire School of Art from 1977 to 1981.

Charles Tyrrell has lived on the Beara peninsula, Co. Cork since 1984.

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Untitled 2005

Untitled 2005

Untitled 2005

Untitled 2005