canvas :: miriam mcconnon :: irish painter, contemporary irish artist, oil on canvas, oil and material on canvas, oil and thread on canvas, living in cyprus, archaeological sites

Miriam McConnon (b. Dublin 1977) is an Irish painter living and working in Cyprus. She is a Fine Art Graduate of the National College of Art and Design. In 2000, she completed a post-graduate Diploma in Fine Art Painting in Cyprus. There is a delicate beauty to her recent paintings which entices the viewer to look closer at the image. In doing so, the viewer is made to witness the hanging of the communion dress. Its form is suspended from a single metal wire and is left to sway above the solid form of the stool below. Its backdrop is empty of form. The artist has deliberately used soft, quiet colours in her paintings in order to allow the form of the dress to dominate. The 'still life' element to the work also heightens this intensity between the viewer and the image. The decorative pattern from the fabric of the communion dress is used repeatedly in the paintings, drawing the paintings away from the 'still life' and towards decoration. This transience symbolizes the artist's struggle to let go of the communion dress and all that it represents and yet at the same time, the attempt to preserve its memory.

Selected group shows include: Riverside Studios, London (2007); Affordable Art Fair, New York (2007); The Lemon Street Gallery (2006); Bank of Ireland Arts Centre (2006); The Heliotropio Gallery, Larnaca, Cyprus (2005); The Apocalypse Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus (2005); The Orfeas Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus (2005); The Barbara Stanley Gallery, London (2005); Lemon Street Gallery (2005); The Piers Feetham Gallery, London (2004); Cross Gallery, Dublin (2002, 2003 & 2004); The Heliotropio Gallery, Larnaca, Cyprus (2004); Holmes Place Gallery, Kingstown, UK (2004); En Plo Gallery, Paphos, Cyprus (2004); ArtSelect, Temple Bar (2002 & 2003); Berkley Gallery, Kilkenny (2002); Cobalt Cafe (2002); Magil Fine Art Gallery (2002); Kilcock Art Gallery (2001); Gallery 44, Cork (2001) and the Lobby Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus (2000). Selected public collections include; RTE, AXA Insurance, Royal Hospital Donnybrook, Southside Personnel Recruitment and the Office of Public Works. She is in numerous private collections worldwide.

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Miriam McConnon, "Hung in the shadows", oil on canvas, 70 x 80cm


Miriam McConnon, "Veil with red", oil on canvas, 80 x 70cm


Miriam McConnon, "In memory of the dress", oil on canvas, 85 x 100cm


Miriam McConnon, "Pale Innocence", oil on canvas, 70 x 80cm


Miriam McConnon, "Tangled wire", oil on canvas, 70 x 60cm
Miriam McConnon (b. Dublin 1977) is an Irish painter living and working in Cyprus. She is a Fine Art Graduate of the National College of Art and Design. In 2000, she completed a post-graduate Diploma in Fine Art Painting in Cyprus. There is a delicate beauty to her recent paintings which entices the viewer to look closer at the image. In doing so, the viewer is made to witness the hanging of the communion dress. Its form is suspended from a single metal wire and is left to sway above the solid form of the stool below. Its backdrop is empty of form. The artist has deliberately used soft, quiet colours in her paintings in order to allow the form of the dress to dominate. The 'still life' element to the work also heightens this intensity between the viewer and the image. The decorative pattern from the fabric of the communion dress is used repeatedly in the paintings, drawing the paintings away from the 'still life' and towards decoration. This transience symbolizes the artist's struggle to let go of the communion dress and all that it represents and yet at the same time, the attempt to preserve its memory. Selected group shows include: Riverside Studios, London (2007); Affordable Art Fair, New York (2007); The Lemon Street Gallery (2006); Bank of Ireland Arts Centre (2006); The Heliotropio Gallery, Larnaca, Cyprus (2005); The Apocalypse Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus (2005); The Orfeas Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus (2005); The Barbara Stanley Gallery, London (2005); Lemon Street Gallery (2005); The Piers Feetham Gallery, London (2004); Cross Gallery, Dublin (2002, 2003 & 2004); The Heliotropio Gallery, Larnaca, Cyprus (2004); Holmes Place Gallery, Kingstown, UK (2004); En Plo Gallery, Paphos, Cyprus (2004); ArtSelect, Temple Bar (2002 & 2003); Berkley Gallery, Kilkenny (2002); Cobalt Cafe (2002); Magil Fine Art Gallery (2002); Kilcock Art Gallery (2001); Gallery 44, Cork (2001) and the Lobby Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus (2000). Selected public collections include; RTE, AXA Insurance, Royal Hospital Donnybrook, Southside Personnel Recruitment and the Office of Public Works. She is in numerous private collections worldwide.

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