Charles Tyrrell

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Biography

Born in Trim, Co. Meath, in 1950, Charles Tyrrell studied at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin. His early large scale canvases were influenced by American abstract expressionism and have since evolved in a more minimalist direction, working from detached geometric beginnings towards images that incorporate a sense of reality, and a distillation of the experienced world. Currently his work practice incorporates painting on canvas and aluminium as well as drawing and print.

Tyrrell represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale in 1982. He won the Carroll’s Award at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1974 and received a special mention from the jury of the 1981 Cagnes-sûr-Mer Painting Festival. Major exhibitions of his work have taken place at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Butler Gallery, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Solstice Arts Centre, and Crawford Art Gallery. In 1982 he was made a member of Aosdána.

Recently, a retrospective of his work was held in the R.H.A. Gallery, Dublin, acknowledging the journey his work has taken over the past decade. Tyrrell’s work is represented in private and private collections both nationally and internationally.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 New Paintings, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
2022 Between the Lines, Grilse Gallery, Killorglin, Kerry
2019 Taylor Galleries, Dublin
2016 Two Paths, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
2015 Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre
2014 Taylor Galleries, Dublin
2013 Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
2012 Taylor Galleries, Dublin
2011 Solstice Arts Centre Navan
2011 Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
2009 Taylor Galleries, Dublin
2007 Taylor Galleries, Dublin

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 RHA Annual, RHA Gallery, Dublin
2022 In and off Itself, Abstraction in the age of images RHA Gallery Dublin
2022 RHA Annual, RHA Gallery, Dublin
2021 RHA Annual RHA Gallery, Dublin
2017 Take Five, The Mill, Kinsale, Cork
2017 West Cork Masters, Catherine Hammond Galley, Cork
2015 AIRMAIL, Yanagisawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015 RHA Annual, RHA Gallagher Gallery (Invited)
2015 Martin Gale & Charles Tyrrell, Claremorris Gallery, Mayo
2014 Art 14 London, Catherine Hammond Gallery, Mayo
2013 Celebration, Catherine Hammond Gallery, Mayo
2013 RHA Annual, RHA Gallagher Gallery (Invited), Dublin
2013 2/3, Doswell Gallery, Co. Cork
2010 Art Allihies, Allihies Copper Mine Museum, Allihies, Co. Cork
2010 Summer Exhibition, Catherine Hammond Gallery, Glengarriff, Co. Cork
2010 The Moderns, IMMA, Dublin
2009 Paul Mosse & Charles Tyrrell, Claremorris Gallery, Claremorris, Mayo
2009 The Weight of Light, VISUAL, Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow
2009 Then and Now, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC, Cork
2009 Another Island: Contemporary Irish Art. The American Irish Historical Society, New York