ATHOS & ORIEL A solo exhibition of paintings by David Begley

From the Ark © David Begley 2004

David Begley was born in Dublin in 1972 and graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 1994. Further study was taken in Carmarthen, in Wales. He has had several solo exhibitions in Ireland and Wales, and in 2002 he was commissioned by The Church of the Holy Trinity, Bunclody, and the Arts Council of Ireland to paint his large scale work The Resurrection. His work has been selected for the Wales Drawing Biennale, for Eigse (Carlow), and in 2004 for the Royal Hibernian Academy.Begley was awarded a Visual Arts Bursary by Wexford County Council in November 2003 to carry out this body of work. The exhibition features both small iconic figurative works and also vast landscapes, each informed by Classical and Mythological references, and studies in Sacred Geometry; they are painted in Begley’s unique style of light and subtle use of colour. Inspired by the unusual high-ceiling and bare stone walls of the gallery space (which the artist sees as a flat-roofed castle of light, perhaps a Pre-Raphaelite Temple) and informed by his time spent in Seville and Rome in 2002, these new works see Begley consolidating his influences, yet moving again in a new direction.