IAN CUMBERLAND

Front Swim or Sink oil on panel 70 x 100 cm (28 x 39 in) £ 8,5001 A House Built For Two oil on panel 100 x 70 cm (39 x 28 in) £ 8,5002 Nude oil on panel 40 x 30 cm (16 x 12 in) £ 3,0003 Quietly Understand oil on panel 60 x 50 cm (24 x 20 in) £ 5,2504 Could Be Anywhere oil on panel 70 x 50 cm (28 x 20 in) £ 5,2505 Time Forgot oil on panel 50 x 70 cm (20 x 28 in) £ 5,2506 Looking Through You oil on panel 40 x 30 cm (16 x 12 in) £ 3,0007 The Hour Has Come oil on panel 40 x 30 cm (16 x 12 in) £ 3,0008 Banking on Chance oil on panel 100 x 70 cm (39 x 28 in) £ 8,500Back Midnight and I oil on panel 70 x 100 cm (28 x 39 in) £ 8,500

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IAN CUMBERLAND(Born 1983, Banbridge)

Ian Cumberland is an Irish artist born in 1983. He studied fine art at University of Ulster, where he was awarded the John and Rachael Turner Award for the most outstanding student in their field. He graduated in 2006 with First Class Honours.

Cumberland has gained a national and international reputation for his large-scale portraits. In 2010 he won the Davy Portrait Award, a major new arts prize that aims to celebrate contemporary portraiture in Ireland. In 2011 he was placed third overall in the prestigious BP Portrait Award. Earlier this year he won the Ireland-US Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award at the Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition.

Ian’s first major solo exhibition was at the Albemarle Gallery in 2008. His recent collection of paintings is an eclectic mix and a significant departure from earlier works. The artist says, I am interested in the painting process and try to produce work that is honest to both the medium and the subject, this results in work that has a more expressionistic quality, a raw use of the application of paint that is immediate and ‘gritty’ but does not always create a ‘pretty’ picture.

Cumberland’s work is represented in public collections throughout Ireland and part of private collections throughout Ireland, UK and Europe.

EDUCATION

2002-2006 BA Hons Fine & Applied Arts, 1st, University of Ulster

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Albemarle Gallery, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 The National Portrait Gallery, London (BP Portrait Awards)The Royal Hibernian Academy, DublinDean Gallery of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh (BP Portrait Award)Albemarle Gallery, London

2011 Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New YorkAlbemarle Gallery, LondonBoston College, BostonGlebe House and Gallery, DonegalThe National Portrait Gallery, London (BP Portrait Awards)Wolverhampton Art Gallery (BP Portrait Award)Aberdeen Art Gallery (BP Portrait Award)

2010 Albemarle Gallery, LondonFermleigh Gallery, Dublin, (Davy Portrait Awards)Naughton Gallery, Belfast, (Davy Portrait Awards)Gormleys Gallery, Dublin

2009 Dean Gallery of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh (BP Portrait Award)Gormleys Gallery, BelfastRoyal Ulster Academy of Arts, BelfastSouthampton City Art Gallery (BP Portrait Award)University of Ulster, BelfastThe National Portrait Gallery, London (BP Portrait Award)

2008Omeau Baths Gallery, Belfast (preview for Albemarle Gallery solo exhibition)Art London (art fair)

2007Albemarle Gallery, London

2006The Main Guard, ClonmelRoyal Ulster Academy of Arts, Omeau Baths Gallery, BelfastIsland Arts Centre, LisburnRDS, DublinUniversity of Ulster, Belfast

2005The Custom House Gallery, WesportAxis Art Centre, DublinRDS, DublinLyric Theatre, BelfastConway Mills, Belfast

AWARDS

2012 Ireland - US Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award2011 3rd Prize, BP Portrait Award2010 1st Prize, Davy Portrait Award 2009 & 2010 KPMG Emerging Artist Award, (Royal Ulster Academy)2009 & 2010 Support for Individual Artist Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland2006 Selectors choice Award, Art Society of Ulster2006 John & Rachael Turner Award, University of Ulster

COLLECTIONS

Office of Public Works, IrelandArts Council of Northern IrelandUniversity of UlsterQueens UniversityPrivate collections throughout Ireland, UK & Turkey

PUBLICATIONS

2012 Irish Arts Review, Summer 2011 Artists & Illustrators, July 2011 The National Portrait Gallery BP Portrait Award 2011, June2009 The National Portrait Gallery BP Portrait Award 2009, June2009 Northern Irelands Homes & Lifestyle, April 2008 Modern Painters, October2006 Ireland’s Homes Interiors & Living, September2006 Northern Irelands Homes & Lifestyle, July/August

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