Pádraic Reaney was born in Carraroe, Co. Galway in 1952. He studied Fine Art at Galway, Regional Technical College encouraged by the well-known sculptor Oisín Kelly and has been a full-time artist since leaving college. He painted for several years in Galway; later he built a studio in Moycullen, where he now lives and works. He has exhibited extensively in Ireland, Scotland and Wales and his work is in public and private collections in Ireland as well as in Europe, Canada, USA, Brazil, Japan, South Africa and Australia. His work is held in collections such as the Modern Irish Art Collection; Dublin Writers Museum, Ireland; Irish Embassy, London; Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, Quinnipiac University, USA; Siena Art Institute, Italy; Urawa Wood-Cut Prints Association, Japan.
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Awards
Awarded the Padraic Mac con Midhe prize, Oireachtas, Dublin 1979
Artists Bursary Award, Gallway County Council 2003
Moninee in the county heritage awards, Galway 2009
Invited to represent Ireland at the intercontinental art exhibitions “United Nations-symbol of life, freedom and happiness”awarded the Pádraic Mac Con Midhe Prize,’79 Dublin. 1979
Artists Bursary Award. Galway County Council 2003
Nominee in the County Heritage Awards Galway 2009
Invited to represent Ireland at the intercontinental art exhibitions
“United Nations-symbol of life, freedom and happiness”
2020
Invited to represent Ireland at the intercontinental art exhibitions
“United Nations-symbol of life, freedom and happiness”
The world premier that brings together artists from all 193 United Nations member countries in one showThe project is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, celebrated in 2020
Cumar – A Galway Rhapsody’ won the Best Documentary Award 2019 at the 9th Irish Film Festival London. In awarding the accolade, festival founder and director Kelly O’Connor predicted that Cumar would become a “long-standing document of the intrinsic essence and influence of Galway”.
Pádraic Reaney
Pádraic Reaney was born in Galway in 1952. He went to art college for a few years, encouraged by Oisin Kelly, and has been a full - time artist since leaving college. He painted for several years in Galway : later he built a studio in Moycullen, where he now lives and works.
In addition to his paintings, he has worked extensively in graphics and has done sculpture in bronze and stone and ceramic with a rich use of silver and gold leaf. His work is in great demand for book covers, illustrations, and CD covers. He has also created a series of striking wall - hangings done in the studio of V`Soske Joyce.
One of his exhibitions based on the T?in was the subject of a film made by R.T.E. chosen as one of the three top films in the Pan Celtic International Film Festival for 1988. This film and an interview with the artist were shown on R.T.E., where short features on his work and interviews with him have often appeared.
He represented Ireland in the XVI Grand Prix International d`Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo in 1982 and was awarded the Padraic Mac Con Midhe Prize at the Oireachtas in 1979 to do a series of etchings recording the disappearing thatched houses in Ros an Mhal, Connemara.
A founder member of Western Artists and Island Connection,
he was invited to Scotland by the North Ayrshire Council in 1996 to do a series of exhibitions on the Isles and the West Coast of Scotland. He was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Galway Arts Centre in 1996 and served on the Board until 1999.
His work is in public and private collections in this country as well as in Europe, Canada, the United States, Brazil, Japan, South Africa and Australia.
Galway County Council Public Sculpture commission for Lawrencetown, Galway (outdoor life-size sculpture)
Gairdin Cuimhneachain Liam O Flaithearta, Inis Mor
Commemorative Garden Liam I Flaherty, Aran (outdoor life-size sculpture)
three stained glass windows, Teach Pobail Leitir Moir, Co. na Gaillimhe.
Commemorative Plaque with poem by Moya Cannon, Wolfe Tone Bridge, Galway.
