The Bad Art Gallery are delighted to host an exhibition of international artist John Kingerlee from November 12th to December 6th at The Bad Art Gallery, 79 Francis Street, Dublin 8 .

John Kingerlee is one of the leading artists in Ireland and his work has been recognized in exhibitions, auctions and various museums across the world. He is only the second living Irish artist, after Sean Scully, to have work accepted for Sothebys New York’s International Contemporary Art auction. (sold for a record price of Euro156,000)

For the past twenty years John Kingerlee has lived and painted on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork. During this period he has evolved a technique of painting whereby layers of pigment are applied one over the other, forming thick strata of paint akin to the rocky landscape visible outside his studio window. Each layer requires considerable time to dry and in pictures such as the present work, which can have as many as fifty to one hundred coats of paint, the entire process is lengthy and deliberative.

Kingerlee has become part of this landscape, he has grown in to it, and he has permeated it with a keen eye and an intense affection. He perceives and feels the very pith and presence of it all. His studio hangs even further out than the house itself, leaning out to take full advantage of the views, not afraid of the angle, or the constant crashing of the waves beneath. These same waves pour over a rock outcrop creating a melange of colour and texture, vivid yellow, the brown of all the peat compressed above and below, the most blinding pure white of the foam, the blues and greens and steely greys of the sea and the skies as they mix and intermingle

2008 was a landmark year for John Kingerlee, who is fast becoming the rising stat of the Irish art scene despite being well into his 70s. Now one of the most collectable artists in Ireland, he is at last able to put behind him the long years of hardship and struggle.

“…he recreates spaces that we can enter mentally and visually in a way that seems to have no parallels in contemporary art…”
Jonathan Benington, Curator of the Victoria Gallery and expert on Roderick O'Connor

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