About The Artist
GRÁINNE CUFFE
Gráinne graduated IADT 1979, joined GSD shortly after, and furthered studies in lithography with a Fulbright Scholarship to Tamarind Institute, New Mexico in 1984.
Visiting Boston Museum Fine Arts she fell for the etchings of James McNeill Whistler. After 2 years at Central St.Martin's, London, Postgrad Printmaking with Norman Ackroyd as her teacher she began making etchings using Ackroyd's dictum: 'You can get all the colour you want with black ink and white paper'. Cuffe disagreed.
Influences: Norman Ackroyd, Georgia O'Keefe, Richard Serra, Henry Moore, Bauhausian principles; working in studios in California, London, Milan, Sweden, Dublin.
Images 'not strictly botanical' are mostly square in composition.
'The monumental prescence of each flower head ...... - their colour,their structure,their design,their rythmic form is carefully distilled and presented. ' Dr.Angela Griffith, Trinity College Dublin, [2017].
SOLO SHOWS:
- Glór,Ennis: April 2018
- Graphic Studio Gallery: June 2017
- Blue House Gallery: August 2016, 2015
- Graphic Studio Gallery: May 2014
- Gráinne was invited to show at the RUA,Belfast 2017/18 and shows regularily at the RHA, Dublin and RA,London.
COLLECTIONS:
- Arts Council of Ireland;
- Hastings Hotels;
- Hilton Hotels;
- Chester Beatty Library;
- UCD,
- TCD,
- DCU,
- UL,
- Queens University Belfast,
- Boston College
- University of Note Dame,Indiana
- Beamont Hospital,Dublin
- Mater Dei Hospital, Dublin
- St.Vincent's Hospital, Dublin
- Connolly Hospital
- Family Law Courts, Dublin
- Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, [ main foyer] Dublin,
Commisions:
- Hastings Hotel Group,
- P&O Cruise Ship Oriana,
- Fingal County Council
- Graphic Studio Dublin
Writing About Grainne:
- Essay on Gráinne Cuffe by Angela Griffin
- Essay on Gráinne Cuffe by Jackie Bourke
- Deborah Blakely ZoneoneArts