MARTIN IRELAND

BORN 1965

EDUCATION

1987 Canterbury School of Art BA Hon's Fine Art.

1989 Camberwell School of Art Postgraduate Printmaking & Photography Diploma.

1995 Morley College Anatomy & Physiology Diploma.

1998 South Thames College City & Guilds 7307 Adult Teaching Certificate.

EXHIBITIONS

1987 Printmakers Council Open Royal Festival Hall, Southbank.

1988 ‘ Imprint ' Tall House, Blackfriars.

1988 Southbank Open Royal Festival Hall, Southbank.

1989 ‘ We Two Boys ' Drill Hall Arts Centre, Bloomsbury, London.

1990 ‘Art 90' Olympia, London.

•  ‘Singer & Friedlander Sunday Times watercolour Open, Mall Galleries.

•  ‘ The Boat Race Reaches ' Circle Galleries, Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.

•  ‘Thames - A liquid History ' Circle Galleries, Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.

1992 ‘ The performing Arts ' Circle Galleries, Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.

1992 ‘ Impressions ' Concourse Galleries, Barbican, London.

1994 ‘ Visions of Malta ' Museum of Fine Art, Valletta, Malta.

1995 ‘Southwark Open' South London Gallery.

1998 ‘ Not the Royal Academy ' Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, waterloo, London.

2000 ‘ Century 21 ' watercolour open Bankside Gallery, Southwark, London.

2000 Group show Bloxham Galleries, Battersea, London.

2001 summer show Bloxham Galleries, Battersea, London.

2002 Group show Red Dot Gallery.

•  Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Open, Mall Galleries, London

2006 ‘Le Dessin- Sept Expressions' Alexandre Mottier Galleries, Geneva

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1987 ‘ Exposed ' St Judes Gallery, Kensington, London.

1988 ‘ 1-2-1 ' Blenheim Gallery, Notting Hill, London.

1988 ‘ Relevations ' St Judes Gallery, Kensington, London.

1990 ‘ On the waterfront ' The River house, Hammersmith, London.

1996 ‘ A Bigger splash ' Rob Gallery, Amsterdam.

1996 ‘ A bend in the river ' Novotel, Hammersmith, London.

1997 ‘ In at the deep end ' Wolfeson College, Oxford.

1999 ‘ Sporting bodies ' The Contemporary Art Gallery, Belgravia.

2002 ‘ Liquid London ' Wandsworth Arts Festival, Earlsfield, London.

2003 ‘ Made in Manhattan ' Clifton Gardens, Little Venice, London.

2003 ‘ Facing the water ' Brassey Square, Battersea, London.

2004 ‘ Night & day ' Brassey Square, Battersea, London.

2005 ‘ Take the plunge' F1 world championships, Marina, Singapore.

2005 ‘Making waves' Wandsworth Arts Festival, London.

2006 ‘ Waterworld ' Adonis Art Gallery, Earls Court, London

2007 ‘ Blade work ' Corridor gallery, Henley River & Rowing Museum.

2008 ‘Back to the River' Kirkham gallery, Henley River & Rowing Museum.

Work in private collections throughout the UK, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Geneva, Hong Kong, New York, Paris, & Singapore.

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

•  ‘I See, I paint' Dulux painting Open Competition.

•  Nominated as member of Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours.

2005 ‘Arts About Wandsworth' award for residency at Tooting Bec Lido.

PUBLICATIONS

1992 ‘Next Generation' Gay Times

1999 ‘Rejecting the Best; Financial Times.

2002 ‘Taking the Plunge' Southside news.

2003 ‘Painters Pools' Southwest magazine.

2005 ‘In the Swim' Artists & Illustrators magazine.

COLLECTIONS

National Maritime Museum, Liverpool