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Artist Statement:
Harry Vince Coulter's
extraordinary landscape
paintings ... shimmer with an
intensity hard to miss among
the muted cautious colours of
much contemporary Irish
landscape painting. Vince
Coulter is English in
background, a former habitue
of Cornish coasts, London art
schools and the fervid world
of 60s cultural politics: but
these swirling, shifting,
exuberant creations could, in
his own view, have sprung only
from the spiritual geography
of Ireland. (His) depictions
of English landscape have a
harder, sharper edge to them,
as befits what he sees as a
more static scenario; these
Irish landscapes, by contrast,
are all about flux, dyanism,
deliquescence, as jagged coast
and solid rock are recomposed
in the more merging, soluble
media of water and air.
This is not a question of
'abstraction'. If Vince
Coulter is a modernist, he is
one only in a generous,
non-doctrinaire sense of the
term. Indeed, these fractured,
pulsating paintings are, in
his own opinion, perfectly
realist. These are real places
he has lived among, but ones
which have been decomposed and
reassembled according to an
imaginative rather than
material logic. actual space
plays a part in these
marvellous reinventions, but
it is space which has been
wrenched apart and ...
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Harry Vince Coulter Biography:
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Age
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60
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Male
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| Children |
2
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| Education |
Post Graduate Work |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
I have always been interested in all music, film, video and literature, as well as painting. Along with that, left-wing politics was a passion for many years. |
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Artists I have looked at are many and changing, but some constants are Turner, John Hoyland, Helen Frankenthaler and Henri Matisse. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I'm not sure that anyone 'becomes' an artist. The whole thing is a process of not quite getting there. But it began for me at the age of 14, when I was very interested in a TV program (in black and white!) which showed how Corot painted trees bent by wind. They made an impact which took me to a sympathetic art teacher, who showed me where (and in a certain way,how) to look from there. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Born: Southall, Middlesex, West London, 1948
Resident: Dublin, Ireland
1965-66 Twickenham College of Technology, Middlesex
1966-70 Chelsea School of Art (now part of University of the Arts, London)
1970-71 Hornsey College of Art (now part of Middlesex University)
1977-78 National College of Art and Design, Dublin
More Recent Group Shows
1998 North West Artists, Sligo Art Gallery
1999 Eigse Carlow
1999 North West Artists, Sligo Art Gallery
2000 North West Artists, Sligo Art Gallery
2003 Summer Show, Hallward Gallery, Dublin
2004 Mayo General Hospital
2005 The Grafton Suite, Dublin
2007 Recent Aquisitions, Greyfriars Municipal Gallery, Waterford
Two-Person Shows with Kate McDonagh
2002 Dun Aimhairgin Gallery, Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht, Dublin
2004 Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Dublin
One Person Shows
1999 Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely, County Wicklow
1999 Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, County Mayo
2000 The Space, St Paul's Arts Trust, London
2000 The Bar Council, Dublin
2001 Signal Arts Centre, Bray
2001 Wexford Arts Centre
2001 Mullingar Arts Centre
2004 Hanley's @ The Bar Restaurant, Dublin
2005 Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford
2009 The Bar Council, Dublin
Awards
2000 Arts Council/Aer Lingus Travel Award
Residencies
2006 Cill Rialaig Arts Project, Kerry |
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