Stillness and isolation lie at the heart of Eugene Conway's paintings. Because human activity is often only suggested by the sense of the viewer watching from the seclusion of a wood or by a deserted road and the eerie anticipation of events yet to unfold, the places he paints function as precursors or after-images of an implied narrative. What at first seem generic scenes are are painted with a deceptive detachment which arrests our attention and focuses it on the commonplace.
Eugene Conway has had four solo exhibitions at the Molesworth Gallery and has established himself as one of Ireland's leading young realist painters. He has been a regular exhibitor at the RHA since 1998 and in 2001 he was awarded the Fergus O'Ryan Memorial Award.

He is participating in a major exhibition of contemporary landscape painting at the Washington Arts Club, Washington DC. in the autumn of 2008.

Eugene Conway

Born: Dublin 1965
Education: Graduated NCAD Dublin, Batchelor of Fine Arts (Painting), Hons.

Solo Exhibitions

The Molesworth Gallery - 2007, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2001

Selected Group Exhibitions

RHA Annual Exhibition - 2006, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991
RHA Banquet Show - 2006
Arts Council of Ireland Exhibition, Dublin - 1998
Ashling Gallery, Hingham, MA, USA - 1996-1998
NCAD, Dublin - 1991

Awards

RHA Fergus O”Ryan Memorial Exhibition - 2001

Selected Collections

Haverty Trust; OPW; ESB; Four Seasons Hotel, Dublin

Commissions

Church of the Immaculate Conception, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny - 2004

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