Lennon (artist)

Ciaran Patrick Lennon (born 1947) is a Dublin-based Irish artist known for his minimalist large scale paintings.

Lennon
Born
Ciaran Patrick Lennon

1947 (age 75–76)[1]
Dublin, Ireland[1]
NationalityIrish[2]
EducationNational College of Art and Design, Ireland 1963–1967[3]
Known forPainting

He was chosen to represent Ireland at the 1993 São Paulo Biennial in Brazil.[4] In the same year, Lennon was elected to Aosdána (an Irish State honour conferred on artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the creative arts in Ireland).[5]

He has been described as ‘one of the most important Irish painters currently working in the field of non-objective art’.[6] Some of his most well-known work is ‘Porous Plane’, which originated from his Folded/Unfolded Paintings of 1969–1972.[7]

Collections

References
  1. "From the Harvard Art Museums' collections 5 mixing gray". harvardartmuseums.org.
  2. "Ciaran Lennon A13".
  3. "The Trinity College Dublin Art Collections" (PDF). TCD. 31 March 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  4. "Arquivo Bienal Banco de Dados". Arquivo Bienal. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  5. "Aosdána Members Visual Arts". Aosdána. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  6. "IMMA Collection Lennon". Irish Museum of Modern Art Collection. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  7. "IMMA Exhibitions Porous Plane". Irish Museum of Modern Art What's On. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  8. "Folded Unfolded | Lennon". IMMA.
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