Pádraic E. Moore is a writer, curator and art historian. Recent projects include Communal Enthusiasm; a major exhibition marking 75 years of the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and I’ll Be Your Mirror, an event programme that accompanied this Warhol show at Hugh Lane. In 2022 Moore became the inaugural mentor of Catalyst Commissions at De Appel, Amsterdam. From 2019 to 2021 he was guest curator at Garage Rotterdam and led several new commissions in this role. Moore is artistic director of Ormston House, Limerick.
For more information on the exhibition please see: https://pallasprojects.org/project/lee-welchin-praise-of-idleness
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Biography
Lee Welch was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1975 and currently lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Welch creates gestural, atmospheric paintings that attest to the psychical and emotional depths of his chosen subjects and map out delicate negotiations between beauty, desire, and the painted image. Depicting figures from his own milieu, as well as from history, literature, music, and tennis, Welch finds feeling in that which he depicts, always rendered with the intensity of his particular humanism; a close looking akin to love. In each subject’s specificity, the artist reveals the universal feelings that connect us to each other, and that stretch from our present moment back through time.
Welch received his BFA from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in 2009 and his MFA from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2011. He has since been widely exhibited internationally and received numerous awards. Recent exhibitions have taken place at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spain; Glucksman Gallery, Cork; Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin. His paintings are in private and public collections such as the Arts Council, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane and the OPW - State Art Collection.
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Image: Detail of Lee Welch, Fog has covered everything, 2024, acrylic on linen, 109 x 80 cm / 42.9 x 31.5 in
Pallas Projects/Studios is funded by The Arts Council
