Mark Redden, born in Dublin, 1979, currently lives and works in Barcelona
Studio: Nau 1, c/ Espronceda 326, 08027 Barcelona
markeredden@gmail.com
'Ishmael: [seeing Moby Dick for the first time] Is it real? Do you see it, too?
The Manxman, a sailor: We all see it. That don't make it real.'
From Moby Dick by Herman Melville
2011
Start election posters, Group show on the lamp-posts of Dublin - www.start.ie
2010
'Art for Haiti', De Veres, Dublin, Ireland
'Around Nau', group exhibition, Nau 1, Barcelona, Spain
2009- Co-founds Iomramh - www.iomramh.org
‘Pols (Dust),’ group exhibition, Gracia Arts Project, Barcelona, Spain
Boyle Arts Festival, group exhibition, Roscommon, Ireland
'Bolivar meets Morales,' sculpture in context, Cerka’l Festival, Piera, Spain
2008
‘Cave', solo show, Cibercentro La Lila, Oviedo, Spain
‘Landed’, group show at The Backloft, Dublin, Ireland
'Strange Fish', group exhibition, Bold Art Gallery, Galway, Ireland
Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
‘A Manual on Tidal Arrangements’, solo show, Urban Retreat, Dublin, Ireland
2007– Relocates to Barcelona.
‘What Remains', solo show, Urban Retreat Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
‘06 6 x 6 for Ireland’, group show, Chienjiang Gallery, China
2006– Works at the Broadstone Studios, Dublin, Ireland
‘We the Navigators’, solo show, Origin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2005– Co-founds the Mantua Arts Project in Roscommon, Ireland. Is awarded a bursary by the Roscommon County Council to fund his practice in Mantua. Works at Broadstone Studios, Dublin. Takes Residency in Cill Rialaig, Kerry, Ireland.
‘Living Artists’, group show, Berkley Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
2004– Residency at Bottlebush Studio, Tasmania, Australia. Works in AJ's studios, Cork, Ireland.
‘Art Trail’, various locations, Cork, Ireland
2003– BA (hons) in Fine Art Painting, Crawford College of Art, Cork. Awarded Eli Lily Acquisition Prize. Selected for RDS Annual Student Awards. Print workshop at Backwater Artists Group, Cork, Ireland
2002– Works as a boat builder’s apprentice in Oughterard, Galway, Ireland. Lives and works in a small cottage. He exhibits throughout Ireland. Travels to Morocco, Bolivia and South Korea. Works in Big Green Shed Studios, Tasmania, Australia.
‘High Tide’, Mt. Wellington sculpture trail, Tasmania
2001– Diploma (hons) in Fine Art Sculpture from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Dublin, Ireland.
Collections: Cork Institute of Technology, Carlow Institute of Technology, Eli Lilly, Irish Teachers Union, Boyle Civic Trust, Office of Public Works Dublin, Mexican Embassy in Ireland.
Reviews
Young artists who work beyond the Pale, Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, 25/06/04 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2004/0625/1086274508644.html
Art optimism on Misery Hill, Ros Drinkwater, Sunday Business Post, 18/02/07 http://www.thepost.ie/archives/2007/0218/art-optimism-on-misery-hill-21065.html
An Irish Woman’s Diary, Lorna Siggins, Irish Times, 12/09/10 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0921/1224279362665.html