Artist Dougal McKenzie will give a talk about his artistic practice and his latest exhibition ‘More Bad News‘ via the GTG Instagram channel this weekend as part of the Imagine! Belfast Festival 2020.
More details of how you can watch and participate will follow shortly!
Dougal studied at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, Scotland from 1986-90, and University of Ulster from 1990-91. He was co-director at Catalyst Arts, Belfast from 1994-96, and co-founder of the Six into 18 artists’ projects with Nuala Gregory in Belfast and Derry in 1992. He is currently Lecturer in Painting at Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, and holds a studio at PS². He is a three-time recipient of an Arts Council Northern Ireland Award.
He writes about art and colour here and here.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004 Perspective, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast (curated by Vittorio Urbani)
John Moores 23, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (selected by Callum Innes, Gavin Turk, Ann Bukantas, Gill Hedley and Jarvis Cocker)
2006 Emerging Artists, RHA Ashford Gallery, Dublin (curated by Mark St John Ellis)
A Seed-of-Zero, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (curated by Peter Richards)
2007 The Double Image, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (invited to curate by Peter Richards, with accompanying exhibition book and essay as part of The Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art series)
2008 Kilkenny Visual Arts Festival (curated by Hugh Mulholland)
178th RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin (invited artist)
2010 John Moores Prizewinners’ Retrospective, Seongnam Arts Centre, South Korea
2012 John Moores 2012 Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (selected by Angela de la Cruz, Fiona Banner, Alan Yentob, Iwona Blazwick and George Shaw)
2013 Between Two Worlds (with David Crone and Mark McGreevy), F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, Co. Down, N. Ireland (curated by Dr. Riann Coulter and Feargal O’Malley)
Long They Look and Deeply (with Jeffrey Dennis, Christopher Hanlon, Fiona Finnegan, Tim Millen, Andrew Cranston, Flora Moscovici and Hannah Casey), Satis House, Belfast (curated by Kim McAleese and Eoin Dara)
2014 The Far Away Nearby, F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, Co. Down, N. Ireland (curated by Feargal O’Malley)
The MAC International, Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast (curated by Francesco Bonami, Hugh Mulholland and Judith Nesbitt)
2017 Fully Awake, Pavilion Gallery, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow (curated by Ian Hartshorne and Sean Kaye)
Get’Cha Head in the Game, The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s University, Belfast (curated by Ben Crothers and Rachel Brown)
2019 How The Image Echoes, a Painting Research Group exhibition (with Louise Wallace, Susan Connolly, Majella Clancy, Brian Bishop, Christopher Hanlon, Joy Gerrard and Paddy McCann), PS², Belfast
Forthcoming: January/ February, How The Image Echoes– Part 2, a Painting Research Group exhibition (with Louise Wallace, Susan Connolly, Majella Clancy, Cherie Driver, Christopher Hanlon, Joy Gerrard and Paddy McCann), Ulster University Gallery, York Street, Belfast
Selected Solo Shows and Projects
2005 Culloden, Context Gallery, Derry
2006 Scenes from Old Europe, New and Recent Paintings, RHA Ashford Gallery, Dublin
2009 Dunkelbunt, The Third Space Gallery, Belfast
2011 Hot and Cool, The Third Space Gallery, Belfast
2017 A Dream and an Argument, New Paintings, The MAC, Belfast
2019 Belfast-Type Pictures, Five Paintings and a Slide Show, PS², Belfast
Forthcoming:
2020 March: More Bad News, Golden Thread Gallery Project Space, Belfast
Selected Awards
2004 John Moores 23 Shortlisted Prizewinner
2005 Arts Council of Northern Ireland Major Individual Award
2008 Arts Council of Northern Ireland Award
2010 Arts Council of Northern Ireland Award
