Denis Farrell
Denis Farrell was born in Monaghan in 1963. He studied for an Honours Diploma in Fine Art (Painting) at Limerick School of Art and Design from 1981 to 1985, attended the New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture from 1989 to 1990 and received an MFA from Yale University School of Fine Art in 1993. He returned to Ireland in 1999. Initially inspired by Greek tesserae in the mosaics of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Denis Farrell’s work uses grids as underlying structures from which his paintings are formed. Executed in delicate pastel shades as well as more vibrant contrasting tones, his paintings are richly textured colour field explorations of formal composition and geometrical repetition.
Denis Farrell has received numerous bursaries and awards as well as a full scholarship to Yale University School of Art in 1991 and a Fulbright Scholarship for postgraduate study in 1989. He founded Bingo Hall Gallery in Brooklyn, New York in 1997 and currently teaches Fine Art at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology. He has exhibited extensively in both Ireland and America, with recent solo exhibitions at The Dock, Leitrim; Irish Arts Centre, New York; Custom House Gallery & Studios, Mayo; and Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick. His work is represented in the public collections of An Garda Siochána, the OPW, Leitrim County Council, Limerick University, Scott Tallon Walker Architects and Monaghan County Museum, amongst others.
Exhibitions with Taylor Galleries:2001 The Drumshanbo Paintings
1998 Denis Farrell
1991 New York Work
1988 with Jill Dennis