Ian Keaveny – Artist

Ian Keaveny started painting in the late 1980s. Adding video as a medium since 2007.

‘My work from college until 2008 was mainly abstract. A position I came to reject in 2008 as being unsustainable, based on an examination of the relation between Art, economics and the need to communicate. I work from still life set-ups using collected objects which stand in for people, places and situations within my own life. I have been called a surrealist, and the world I inhabit does strike me as strange, I have always felt disconnected and my work reflects that, an attempt to break the world down to the simplest element that can be examined and understood, as a child plays with a toy.’

Ian Keaveny lives between Ireland and Wales.

Exhibitions:

August /December 2010 – Solo exhibition ‘ Scary Monsters (super creeps)’ , The Ivy house ,Drumcondra Dublin.

June /July 2010 – Solo Exhibition ‘ Angelheart’, The Mill Theatre , Dundrum, Co.Dublin

January/February 2010 – solo exhibition ‘ The demons of the city opened

their way to me ‘ , Birr theatre and arts centre, Oxmantown Hall, Birr, Co.Offaly

August 2009 - Group exhibiton, The Maltings, Birr, Co.Offaly

August 2008 - Group exhibition , Tin Jug gallery, Birr

August 2007 - Colourkeeper (short animation with Rowena Keaveny) Film shots mini film festival, Birr Theatre, Birr.

July 2007 - Open Submission 2007, group show Aras an Chontae, Tullamore.

1998 – Cavan Court house – Windows publications, authors and artists introduction series 4 ; two person exhibition with Elaine Bennet.

Summer 1989 – County Architects office, Winchester, group show.

 

Awards 2007 – Support for Professional artists in Offaly scheme , funding for short

animation , Colourkeeper.

 

Image Gallery Index

1. Babys got a gun (56×43 cm)

2. Box of laughs

3. That we should startle the empty street (41×62 cm)

4. Ghost town ( 41×62 cm)

5. Last Bus, Film Exit

6. Spank the Monkey (41×52 cm)