Extracts from the Poetic Geography of Five Continents (No.19)

Location

Country: Spain
City: Madrid
Place: British Embassy

Blaise Drummond's paintings combine abstraction with meticulously-painted realism. Here, a woman pulls a trolley of multi-coloured slabs within an unidentifiable place. Intriguingly, no clue is given to unravel the relationship between the figurative image, abstract background, and the words of the title.

Blaise Drummond was born in Liverpool and graduated in Fine Art from the National College in Dublin in 1994. He completed an MA at Chelsea in 1998 and began lecturing in 1999. Drummond has had solo exhibitions at the Rubicon Gallery in Dublin; the Castlefield Gallery in Manchester; the Andrew Mummery Gallery in London; the Aalst Museum in Belgium, and the Crawford Municipal Gallery in Cork. He has been the recipient of numerous awards from organisations, including the Arts Council of Ireland and the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, and was awarded a residency at the Centre for Art and Nature in Catalonia. He lives in County Longford, Ireland.

Places

Subjects

handcart, wagon, book, rectangle, square, landscape C20th, woman

Materials & Techniques

canvas, hardboard, oil, oil painting

Artist

Blaise Drummond (1967 - )

Title

Extracts from the Poetic Geography of Five Continents (No.19)

Date

2002

Medium

Oil on canvas over hardboard

Dimensions

height: 30.60 cm, width: 30.40 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the Contemporary Art Society, Art Futures 2002 Exhibition, April 2002

Inscription

verso: 'Extracts from the Poetic / Geography of Five Continents (No.19)' / Blaise Drummond / 2002

Provenance

Contemporary Art Society, Art Futures 2002 Exhibition

GAC number

17682