The Hallward and Mill Cove Galleries

Castletownbere    Dublin    Kenmare    

Miriam D Robinson

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2007       Solo Exhibition, Hallward Gallery, Merrion Square, Dublin

              Boyle Arts Festival Exhibition, Boyle, Roscommon.  Invited, July

              Wexford Opera Festival. Pigyard Gallery. Invited, June

              Heal Exhibition, Naughton Gallery, Queen’s Uni, Belfast Open select, June

              Mill Cove Gallery, Castletownbere, Cork. Selected summer show, June

2006         Hallward Gallery, Merrion Square, Dublin. Group Show. Nov / Dec

                 Pigyard Gallery, Wexford Opera Festival. Group Show. Oct

                 Solo Exhibition, Mill Cove Gallery, Kenmare, Co. Kerry; Sept 30-16 Oct

                 Dyehouse Gallery, Waterford.   Group Show July / Aug

                 Eigse Arts Festival; Utopias Fair:  Selected, June

                 RHA Open Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Ely Place.  Dublin.  May-June

2005      Cross Gallery, Francis St., Dublin.  Group Show Nov/Dec

             Dyehouse Gallery, Waterford.   Group Show Nov/Dec

             Solo Exhibition, Mill Cove Gallery, Castletownbere. July-Aug

                  Solo Exhibition, Birr Arts Festival   12th-19th August.

                 Eigse Open Exhibition,  Carlow.   11^th–19^th June.

                   RHA Open Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Ely Place., Dublin. 17^th May-25th June.

                              Unplugged, Dunnamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise.  Invited artists. February

AWARD

                              Miriam D Robinson received the Éigse award for the most outstanding work at the Open Exhibition, Éigse Carlow Arts Festival in June 2005. 

EDUCATION

1993  - ‘97            B.A. Fine Art Painting, 1^st Class hons., University of Leeds, West Yorks.

1990  - ‘92            Diploma in Creative Arts Therapy, Regents College, London

1988  - ’89            Trained as Aromatherapist, London

1981  - ’83            Diploma in Catechetics, University College, Cork

1973  - ’76            Qualified as Froebel teacher, Sion Hill, Blackrock,  Co. Dublin

NEW  WORK

A “Golden Thread” presents a new series of paintings by Miriam Robinson.  These abstract works on paper and canvas reflect aspects of a spiritual exploration – a type of emotional and intuitive mapping within the mythical world of painting.  Meta-physical narratives build up while expressive layers of paint tease out the core relationship between form and space through shifting lines, boundaries and surfaces.       

“Space is often felt below the surface of a painting.   We sense vibrations, we feel an openness, really an incompleteness, as in the way the world works.  Outside the limits of our perceptions nothing in the world is in fact complete, separate or static - nothing is ever finished or fixed - rather every form is incomplete, fluid, connected.  It is all open.

I paint, to open up, to find that space within and beyond the dimensions of form ........”

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