Eoin Llewellyn

In the images Llewellyn works with he combines painting's history and techniques with images from the 1900s to the present day.
These images and painting techniques, influenced by Titian to Bacon, are overlapped with each other to create a rich multi-layered experience.
This creates a precarious balance between the past and the present leaving the audience with a sense of dislocation from a definite time and place. Man Sleeping in LA Apartment (2011) is a direct conversation with Jusepe de Ribera's Jacob Dream (1639). He is also interested in painting the misfit in society and the private personal moments that painting's light is not normally shone on, for example
The Patient (2010) and Father and Son (2011).
His work is primarily a dialogue with the history of painting itself and in particular the figure. It does not recognise one period in painting over another. Rather, it is inspired by consistency in quality and the discovery of successful new realities in paint.


Llewellyn's work has been exhibited throughout Ireland, England and Germany and is found in both private and public collections throughout the world.
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Eoin Llewelyn ...

D.I.T. College of Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.
(Graduated 1998)

2013-14 Dec-Jan "Neither here nor there", Galway Arts Centre, Ireland, curated by Enda O Donoghue and Jane Hughes
2013 Oct, New Berlin Painters, Kunst Forum, Berlin.
2013 April "Neither here nor there", Grimmmuseum, Berlin, curated by Enda O Donoghue and Jane Hughes
2013 May, Desert Tavern, Berlin, Curated by Malte Hagen Olbertz
2012 FRAGILE WELTEN / FRAGILE WORLDS ' Curator Uwe Goldenstein, In connection with BSA- Berlin Selected Artists, is touring an exhibition of painters to 4 galleries throughout Denmark from June to November 2012.
2012 FLYING - Bethanien Berlin-Christoph Tannert (www.bethanien.de)

2012 April, ‘Berlin. Status (1)’, - title of book by Sven Druhl (guest editor to Art Forum International) and Christoph Tannert (Art Historian and Director of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien).

2012 March-May, Gallery Pan Oslo group show of international figurative painters, Gielo and Stavanger, Norway
2012 January Gallery Kent Wolfsen / BSA - Uwe Goldenstein, Art Herning- International art fair, Denmark
2012 Jan "Positions" GaiaProjects, Wandesford Quay Gallery , Cork- curator Dermot Browne.
2012 Jan, Staatsgalerie, Prenzlauerberg, Berlin Germany2011 Royal Hibernian Academy ,Dublin, Ireland

2011 Dec– Jan Collisio...