Artist
Hughie O'Donoghue / Manchester England
Limited Edition Fine Art Print

SIGNATURE: Hand signed and dated lower right in pencil; inscribed lower left.

MEDIUM: Etching (no. 30 from an edition of 30).

MOUNTING : Art board

FRAME : Not Framed

SIZE:28 by 38cm., 11 by 15in.

https://www.hughieodonoghue.com

Hughie O'Donoghue was born in 1953 in Manchester, England. His father, Daniel O'Donoghue, was also born in Manchester, to Irish parents, and was a railway company clerk in the city. Daniel O'Donoghue encouraged his son to study history and literature and spend time in Manchester City Art Gallery. This was to prove a key element in the formation of O'Donoghue's desire to make art.[1]
Equally significant was O'Donoghue's mother, who had been born in Ireland, in the Gaeltacht of County Mayo.[2] O'Donoghue spent much of his childhood here, learning traditional stories and experiencing the landscape around his mother's family home.[3]
O'Donoghue attended St Augustine's Grammar School followed by Trinity and All Saints College.[4] He later gained an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 1982 and was appointed to be artist-in-residence at the Drax power station near Selby in Yorkshire in 1983.[5] This was followed in 1984 by a two-year residency at the National Gallery in London, and by another art residency in 2000 at St John's College, Oxford.
His first solo exhibition was in 1984 at AIR Gallery, London.[6] He then showed in 1987 at the Galleria Carini and Donatini, Florence, Italy,[7] followed by the solo show Fires at the Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London in 1989.[8]
In 1997 he held a solo show at the Haus der Kunst, Munich.[9] In 1998 he staged an exhibition of his paintings and drawings of the human body, made between 1984 and 1998, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.[10] In 1999 he had further solo shows in Dublin and Munich.[11] In 2000 he took part in the group show Geschichte und Erinnerung in der Kunst der Gegenwart (History and Memory in Contemporary Art) at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, and then had further solo shows at the Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, in 1998, 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006. In 2003 O'Donoghue exhibited at the Imperial War Museum North in Salford a series of works called Painting Caserta Red charting his father's experiences in the Second World War.[12] Also in 2003 he held a solo show at the Gas Hall Gallery, Birmingham, then at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, in 2004, the Fenton Gallery, Cork, in 2005, the City and Áras Éanna Arts Centre, Inis Oírr, Ireland, and Fairgreen Gallery, Galway, Ireland, in 2006 and Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, in 2007.
In 2008 his series of paintings Lost Histories; Imagined Realities, was shown at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag in The Hague, Netherlands, and The Geometry of Paths, at the James Hyman Gallery, London.[13] Another series, called The Journey was shown at Leeds Art Gallery in Britain in 2009, and Spirit of the Figure, was shown at the Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury, Kent also in 2009.[14] In 2010 he showed at the Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, and in 2011 at the Galway Arts Festival, Galway Ireland, and at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
In 2005 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the National University of Ireland.[15] He has work in public collections including: Arts Council of England, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, the British Museum, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands, the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, the Imperial War Museum, London, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, the National Gallery, London, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA, amongst others.[16]
In 2013, he designed a stained glass window for Westminster Abbey to mark the 60th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.[17]
Hughie O'Donoghue is married to Clare, and is represented by Marlborough Fine Art, London.