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Breon O'Casey

8 - 29 August 2009

Breon O'Casey

Breon O’Casey was born in London in 1928. He studied at the Anglo-French Art
Centre from 1948-1950. He was an assistant to Denis Mitchell from 1959-1961
and to Dame Barbara Hepworth from 1961-1963. He is closely linked with the
School of St Ives through his friendship with the leading artists who were his contemporaries.
He lives and works in Cornwall.

Exhibitions

1954	Somerville College, Oxford – solo.
1959	Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives – group.
1960	Arnolfmi, Bristol – solo.
1966	Signals Gallery, London – group.
1968	Marjorie Parr Gallery, London – solo. British Crafts Centre, London – group. Park Square Gallery, Leeds – solo.
1969	Marjorie Parr Gallery, London – solo. Brown Thomas Gallery, Dublin – solo.
1970	Oxford Gallery, Oxford – with Bryan Illsley.
1971	Bath Festival Gallery, Bath – group. Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol – with Bryan Illsley.
1972	The Goldsmith’s Hall, London – group.
1973	Marjorie Parr Gallery, London – solo. Craftworks, Guildford – with Bryan Illsley.
1974	British Crafts Centre, London – solo.
1975	Marjorie Parr Gallery, London – solo. Craftwork Gallery, London – with Bryan Illsley. Craftworks, Guildford – solo.
1976	British Crafts Centre, London – group.
1977	Chastinet Gallery, London – solo.
1979	Oxford Gallery, London – solo.
1981	O’Casey Craft Gallery, London – solo.
1982	Prescote Gallery, Banbury – solo.
1983	Kruger Gallery, New York – solo. Fulham Gallery, London – solo.
1984	Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia – solo. Oxford Gallery, Oxford – solo.
1985	British Crafts Centre, London – solo. Oxford Gallery, Oxford – solo. Victoria and Albert Museum Craft Shop, London – group. Ingrid Presser, Germany – solo.
1986	Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia – solo. Taylor Galleries, Dublin – solo.
1988	Taylor Galleries, Dublin – solo.
1989	Crafts Council, London – group (touring exhibition). Oxford Gallery, Oxford – with David Garland. Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia – solo.
1990	Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia – solo.
1991	Rufford Crafts Centre – group. Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia – solo. Collier Campbell Gallery, London – solo.
1992	Narrow Water Gallery, Northern Ireland – with Carolyn Mulholland. Korim Kiele, Helsinki – group.
1993	Wolf at the Door, Penzance – solo. Taylor Galleries, Dublin – with Conor Fallen. Little Rock, Arkansaw – group. Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia – solo.
1994	Schmuck Unsere Zeif, Zurich – group. Wolf at the Door, Penzance – solo. Cornwall Crafts Association, Trelowarren – solo.
1995	Oriel, Cardiff – solo. New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham – group. Oxford Gallery, Oxford – group. Crafts Council, London – group (touring exhibition). St James’s Gallery, Bath – solo.
1996	Black Swan Guild, Frome: Man and Materials – solo (touring exhibition). TristAnn’s Gallery, Dundalk, Ireland – solo. Oxford Gallery, Oxford – solo.
1997	Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge – solo. Bridge Gallery, Dublin: The Irish Friends of Denis Mitchell – group. Brewery Arts, Cirencester – solo. Contemporary Applied Arts, London – group.
1998	Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia – solo. The Society of Arts and Crafts – group.
1999	Berkeley Square Gallery, London – group. Tate Gallery, St Ives – with Bernard Leach.
2000	Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin – solo. Scolar Fine Art, London – solo. Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia – solo. Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge – with Jim Partridge.
2001	New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surrey – solo. Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia – solo.
2002	Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin – solo.
2003	Berkeley Square Gallery, London-solo. New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham – with Sir Terry Frost RA and Sandra Blow RA. Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia – solo. Yew Tree Gallery, Morvah, Cornwall – solo.
2004	Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin – solo. Mullan Gallery, Belfast – solo.
2005	The Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour – mixed. Six Chapel Row, Bath – solo. Yorkshire Sculpture Park – solo. Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge – with Jim Partridge.
2006	Peppercanister Gallery – solo. Lemon Street Gallery – solo. Mullan Gallery, Belfast.
2007	Yew Tree Gallery, Morvah, Cornwall. Lemon Street Gallery at Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh – group.
2008	Lemon Street Gallery – group.
2009	Lemon Street Gallery – solo.

	Public collections Arts Council of Great Britain. Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Arts Council of Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaion. Cornwall County Council. Crafts Council, London. Dartington Hall, Devon. Devon County Council. Farmleigh House – Office of Public Works, Ireland. Goldsmith’s Hall, London. Granada Television. Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. Kunstsammlungen Der Vests, Coburg, Germany. Leeds Museum and Art Gallery. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Pforzheim Museum, Germany. Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery. Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. Tate Gallery. Sommerville College, Oxford. Trinity College, Dublin. Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Articles Breon O’Casey, ‘By Hammer and Hand’, Design, 1972. Breon O’Casey, ‘Weaving is Easy’, Crafts, No 30 January/February 1973. Breon O’Casey, ‘Black Comedy’, Crafts, No 52, September/October 1981. Christopher Reid, ‘Something in the Air’, Crafts, March/April 1985. Christopher Reid, ‘The Pursiut of Harmonies’, Crafts, No 80, May/June 1986. Brenda Polan, ‘A Passion for the Primitive’, Sunday Times Magazine, 18 November 1990. ‘Making Faces’, Crafts, No 111, July/August 1991. Rosemary Hill, review: ‘Breon O’Casey: New Works’, Crafts, No 109, March/April 1991. Ralph Turner, review of jewellery at Rufford Craft Centre, Crafts, No 114, January/February 1992. Kitty Corrigan, ‘Breon O’Casey: A Master of Arts’, Country Living, January 2002. Ruth Guilding, ‘Last Man Standing’, Modern Painters, Summer 2004. Publications Selected Poems, Maurice English, illustrated by Breon O’Casey, 1991. Stars are Suns, poems by Scott Chaskey, woodcuts by Breon O’Casey, 1993. Mayo, Breon O’Casey, 1995. Man and Materials, Breon O’Casey, 1996. Linocuts, Breon O’Casey, 1998. Breon O’Casey, Scolar Press, 1999. A Celtic Artist, Lund Humphries, 2003 Breon O’Casey, an Anthology of his Writings, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2005. Breon O’Casey, A Decade, Lemon Street Gallery, 2009.

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