Dominic Corrigan

Dominic Corrigan is an artist originally hailing from the north of England’s Peak District, but who has spent the majority of his artistic path in Ireland. After studying in Sligo he became an artist in his own right during the 12 years he spent there. He worked mainly as an oil painter which ran alongside his collages . Though Dominic’s early work focused on the purity of abstraction and abstract expressionism , he battled with the conflicted idealism within his early work but always found elements of truth.

But Corrigan‘s recent work has a newfound self-awareness and understanding of his surroundings in Donegal. There is a clear recognisable relationship between the landscape and the artists mind. Though Corrigan‘s paintings still invoke Rothko and painters of that generation there is an understanding and acceptance to learn from his surroundings enabling him to communicate and express through his painting.

As Corrigan says himself “I relied heavily on the unconscious side of painting. Which allowed me to be influenced by my surroundings in an unconscious way but at a cost. The pushing and pulling of the unconscious and creating form in the painting always created tension. Not always a good tension. The paintings now have...

June 2009: B.A. (hons.) Fine Art, Sligo I.T.

2005: Sligo V.E.C. P.L.C. Art Craft and Design Fetac, Level 2

Exhibitions

Artist for art in the Eastside billbored Belfast Ireland 2013

Harnessing Creativity postcard featured in the Dock Gallery Ireland 2013

Model group show Sligo the Gathering Ireland 2013

3 man show UNreForm Yeats Galley Sligo Ireland 2013

Greenpoint Gallery's SUMMER SMALL WORKS SALON SHOW Brooklyn, NY 2013

published Finalist in Line Zero. Washington U.S.A

Published in The Bohemyth 2013

Spring 2013 Cerise Press vol.4 issue 11 www.cerisepress.com

Group show in Tennessee Art Mules 2012.

Published in Orio Headless Journal Florida 2012
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Published in Bear Hands issue 10 Ireland 2012

2012 September resident artists solo show at the Model Sligo

Published in Ou...