Eoin MAC LOCHLAINN
Shortlisted 2008

work shown : Head 4 (2007)
Mixed media on canvas, 50 cm x 50 cm
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Eoin Mac Lochlainn began his career as a graphics designer and is now primarily a painter. He has participated in various exhibitions and shows including a catalogued solo show, ‘Requiem’, in Kilmainham Gaol in 2005. He also teaches art part time in Port Laoise prison.

His series of paintings of Heads began as an emotional response to events in global politics but has developed in various more subtle directions since then. From a formal point of view, he is fascinated by the tension between the actual task of representation and the formal 'pleasure' of mark-making and painting. He likes to create works that from a distance appear purely figurative yet on closer inspection, reveal the true nature of the artist's ongoing struggle with the materiality of paint and surface.

He is now working towards a solo show at the Paul Kane Gallery in Dublin in 2008. He needs funding to allow him to devote all of his energy to this project.

Personal website : http://www.eoinmaclochlainn.com