Christopher Banahan

Born Nottingham in 1958. Goldsmiths College, University of London, MA Fine Art C.N.A.A. 1982 to 1984. Christopher Banahan received First Class Honours from Nottingham Trent Polytechnic and an MA from Goldsmith College London and went to receive a Rome Award in Painting, at the British School of Rome.

Paintings reflect the fragility of life and the passage of time yet also the immortalising of someone caught in their adolescence, transfixing the image of their youth into a timeless state. Even though an intimate moment is caught in paint, the paintings themselves are actually given the appearance of being ravaged by the withering effect of time upon the surface. E

SELECTED AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007/01/1999
R.H.A. Open, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
2006 ‘Winter Show’ Hallward, Dublin
2006 ‘Portraits’ The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick on Shannon
2006 ‘New Works’ Norman Villa, Galway
2005 ‘6 x 6’ Showcase for Ireland, Hangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing, China
2005 ‘Contemporary Art from Ireland’
European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
2005/01/1999
3 Solo Shows (’05 Seawood, ’01 Poingnant Distance, ’99 Icons from the house of Tragic Poet, Hallward Gallery, Dublin)
2005/1995 ‘C.O.E.’ Claremorris, Mayo
2004/1995 ‘Iontas’ Sligo City Art Gallery, R.H.A. and Belltable Gallery, Limerick
2003 ‘New Works’ Barbara Stanley Gallery, London
2003 ‘Lineage’ Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle
2002 ‘Letterbox Memoirs’ Hallward Gallery, Dublin, Belltable Arts
Centre, Limerick & South Tipperary Arts Centre

AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2003/2006 Ballinglen Foundation Fellow
2005 Visual Arts Award, Galway City Council
1990 Rome Award in Painting, British School of Rome
1997/2000/01
Aer Lingus/Art Flights Award (Arts Council)
1998 Visual Arts Bursary, The Arts Coucil of Ireland
1997 Cultural Relations Committee, Travel Award
1995 Materials Documentation Grant, The Arts Council of Ireland
1996/97/98/99
Studio Assistance Award, The Arts Council of Ireland

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Arts Council of Ireland
Office of Public Works, Ireland
Department of Justice, Dublin Castle
Department of Agriculture
Wexford Art Centre
Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda
Contemporary Arts Society
Stanhope Construction
Noble Enterprises
London Borough of Camden
British Council, Rome
Rockingham Castle
Peter York
Roy Miles Fine Art
Bergin, Burke & Ryan Solicitors
Mason, Hayes & Curran, Solicitors
Domus Design, Architects
IBM?Collection, Dublin
Microsoft, Ireland
Allied Irish Bank

Works also in private collections:
Venice, Rome, Naples, Milan, London,
Dublin, Paris, USA