Melita Denaro Irish, b. 1950
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Selected Available Works
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Melita Denaro, A lovely day between the showers, 2017
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Melita Denaro, George Home from the Isle of Doagh Wedding, 2023
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Melita Denaro, Rollers Muscling up in the Autumn Storms & a Fold of Sheep Calm as a Concubine, 2023
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Melita Denaro, Two Kings only in the Sky this Year. Feast of Epiphany, January , 2010
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Melita Denaro, A Gasp of Light, 2023
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Melita Denaro, A goldfinch settled in the hollow of my neck and went to sleep, 2018
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Melita Denaro, The miracle of hearing my blood vessels of the neck working on an ultra-sound, so perfect like whales calling each other (Christmas Roses flowering so sweetly by the dog's graves), 2020
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Melita Denaro, Snowdrops from the Isle, A young fox walked right up to my bedside, March, 2020
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Past Exhibitions
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Sun & Moon
A Group Exhibition at Spirit Studios Suffolk 3 June - 15 July 2023An exhibition about the extraordinary dramatic power of sunlight and moonlight. For artists, these can be the most fleeting and transformational of encounters, momentary, magical alignments forever fixed within a... -
In His Sheltering Presence
Melita Denaro 20 March - 19 April 2019Looking at a painting by Melita Denaro in a previous exhibition of her work in Dublin, a woman asked me “Where is the cow?”. Referring to the list of works...
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Biography
Solo Exhibitions
2019 In His Sheltering Presence, John Martin Gallery, London
2016 Caught in the Moonlight, John Martin Gallery, London
2014 Whatever One Longs for, Is, John Martin Gallery, London
2011 The Tenderness of Attention, John Martin Gallery, London
2008 The Glad Earth, John Martin Gallery, London
2004 A Field We Knew Together, John Martin Gallery, London
2003 Melita Denaro at London Art Fair, John Martin Gallery, London
2003 ‘New Paintings from the Isle of Doagh’, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
2002 Melita Denaro 2002, John Martin Gallery, London
2000 Glebe Gallery, Donegal
1998 Paintings of Donegal Kelly Ross at the Ko Raw Gallery
1997 Gallery Dublin showing with Jack B. Yeats
1994 Oliver Swan Gallery London1994 The Gorden Gallery Derry
1992 Oliver Swan Gallery London
1992 The Gorden Gallery Derry
1990 The Gorden Gallery Derry
Group Exhbitions
2023: Sun&Moon Exhibition, Spirit Studios, John Martin Gallery
2007: York Contemporary Irish Painting, Lalique New York, John Martin Gallery
2006: Irish Landscape and Mark Swords, John Martin Gallery
2006: New Year Exhibition, John Martin Gallery
2005: Summer Exhibition, John Martin Gallery
2003: Melita Denaro, London Art Fair, John Martin Gallery
1999: Painters from Ireland, John Martin of London
1997: British & Contemporary Painting, Kelly Ross at the Clink Wharf Gallery
1996-98: Waterman,London
1996-98: Art,Connaught Brown London
1996: Whitechapel Open
1996: Beginnings Offer Waterman London
1996: Person Show Adam Gallery Bath
1996: Blue Gallery London
1996: Soloman Gallery, Dublin
1995-98: Art Fair, Royal College of Art
1995-1997: Contemporary Art Society,Royal Festival Hall
1995-1997: The Discerning Eye,The Mall Galleries
1992-97: Royal Hiberian Academy, Dublin
1990-97: Royal Academy Summer Show
1994-96: Sligo Art Gallery
1994: a Mark The Mall Galleries
1993-97: Hunting Observer Art Prize
1992-94: Guardian Art for SaleAwards
1994 The Armitage Prize
1994 The David Murray Travelling Scholarship
1995 The Creswick Prize
1995 The Royal Academy Silver MedalEducation
1975-78 Central School of Art BA (Hons) Ceramics
1992-95 Royal Academy Schools Post Graduate Diploma in PaintingCollections
Irish State Dublin, The Ulster Museum, Guinness Dublin; Guinness London; Allied Irish Bank Dublin; Hambros Bank London; Oprah Winfrey Chicago; `Blur’; Donegal County Council; H.R.H The Prince of Wales.
