Basil Blackshaw

>Basil Blackshaw 2005-03-18T00:17:57Z Notjim +painting '''Basil Blackshaw''' (Born in Glengormley, Co. Antrim 1932) is an Irish painter. Blackshaw's painting are often figurative in form, but with a non-naturalistic palate which rebalances the composition in an expressionist, even abstract, way. His themes are very Irish and often rural; [[greyhounds]], [[Irish Travellers]] and the landscape. He has also produced portraits and has designed posters for [[Derry]]'s [[Field Day Theatre Company]]. The Arts Council of Northern Ireland organised a major retrospective of his work in 1995, which travelled from Belfast to Dublin, Cork and many galleries in the U.S. In 2001 he received the Glen Dimplex award for a Sustained Contriubtion to the Visual Arts in Ireland is the distinguished Irish painter Basil Blackshaw. The [[Ulster Museum]] held a major exhibition of his work in 2002. ==Works in Collections== * The Arts Council of Northern Ireland including: ** [http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/aotm/1995/dec1995.htm ''The Last Walk''] * The [[Arts Council of Ireland]] including: ** [http://www.artscouncil.ie/gallery/details.asp?id=42 ''Green Landscape'' (1980)] * [[The Ulster Museum]] * [[The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery]], Dublin, including: ** [http://www.hughlane.ie/collection/collDetail.asp?offset=2 ''Niall's Pony'' (1997)] ==References and External Links== * Brian McAvera (2002), [http://www.irishartsreview.com/html/vol19_no3/blackshaw/blackshaw_feature.htm Basil Blackshaw: A New Vision], ''Irish Arts Review'' Vol 19 No 3. * [http://www.artscouncil.ie/aosdana/biogs/visualarts/basilblackshaw.html Aosdána short biography] * [http://www.modernart.ie/en/page_19287.htm The Press Release announcing the 2001 Glen Dimplex award] [[Category:1932 births|Blackshaw, Basil]] [[Category:Irish painters|Blackshaw, Basil]] [[Category:Irish designers|Blackshaw, Basil]] [[Category:Aosdána|Blackshaw, Basil]]