To be installed Irish Prison Services HQ, Longford - 2011
Remco de Fouw ANCAD BA ARHA
Qualified as a carpenter/Joiner
1st year Grennan Mill Crafts School, Kilkenny
A graduate of National College of Art and Design, Dublin with a first class honors Degree in Fine art Sculpture (1991)
As a full time professional artist, Public commissions make up the main body of his work. Among these are ‘Quintessometry’ at Waterford Regional Hospital. ’First Conundrum’ at Festival square, Edinburgh International Conference Center. ’Gods Navel’ at Charlotte plc Southampton. ‘Silent Witness’ at Meath county buildings, Ash Bourne. ’ Eye witness’ at the N26 Ballina and ‘A fracture of time’, Castleblayney bombing Memorial Co Monaghan.
He has had six solo exhibitions to date, at The Project Arts center, 1994; The Limerick City Gallery, 1994; Temple Bar galleries 1997; The Model Arts center Sligo 1998; The Kevin Kavanagh Gallery 2002; The Atlantic Gallery Clifden 2003.
He exhibits regularly with the R.H.A annual show and with various shows around the country; Most recently with Perspective 03 at the Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast; Eigse Carlow; ‘Forty shades of Green’, at The Glucksman Gallery Cork and Common Ground at Grennan Mill for Kilkenny Arts Week.
He has received Various Awards including The Alexandra Weijchert Sculpture Award 1998 and a number of Arts Council Bursaries.
He is currently building new house and studios with his partner, and their two children in The Blackstairs Mountains in County Carlow.
He has recently taken a position as part time lecturer in sculpture and photography in the Honors degree fine art course in IT Carlow.
CURRICULUM VITAE
REMCO DE FOUW ARHA
BORN: AUGUST 16, 1962
EDUCATION
1984 – Qualified as Carpenter/Joiner
1986 – 1st year Grennan Mill Craft School
1991 – B.A. 1st Class Honours Degree, Fine Art Sculpture,
Commendation in History of Art [Thesis] N.C.A.D.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Sculpture in context – 1988, 89,91,98,02
Ióntas – 1990, 92, 93
EVA, Limerick City Gallery – 1988, 90, 98
Espace, R.H.A. Gallagher Gallery – 1991
Art Inc. Guinness Hopstore – 1991
R.H.A. Annual Exhibition – 1992, 1996, 1998, 2001 to 2006, 2009 to 2013
R.H.A. Banquet Show – 1995, 2004
Aer Rianta Gateway to Art – 1993
Oireachtas – 1993, 1996, 2001
Claremorris – 1995, 1996
Boyle Arts Festival – 1998
Touching the Dark – 2001
Salon des Grands et Jeunes d’aujourd’hui – 2001
Ióntas Award Winners – 2002
Sculpture at Kells Co. Kilkenny – 2002
Perspective 03, Ormeau Baths Belfast – 2003
An Tuireann, Isle of Skye – 2003
Eigse Carlow – 2005
Forty Shades of Green, Glucksman Gallery Cork – 2005
Common Ground, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Grennan Mill, Thomastown – 2005
The Nine Stones Artists, group show, the Norman gallery, Wexford – 2009
‘Constillations’, Visual, Carlow, Eigse 2011
Nine Stones Artists, Eigse, Carlow, Dreighton hall 2012
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1994
‘Reservoir’ Project Arts Centre Temple Bar Dublin
1994
Limerick City Gallery, Pery Square
1997
‘Undercurrent’ Temple Bar Galleries
1998
‘Overflow’ Model Arts Centre, Sligo
2002
Amnesiac Dreams, K Kavanagh Gallery Dublin
AWARDS
1990
Best student work. Iontas
1995
Cultural Relations Committee Travel Award
1997
The ‘Cream of Irish’ Sculpture Award [Joint Recipient]
1998
The Alexandra Wejchert Award
1992, 1994, 2003
Arts council Bursary for the Visual Arts
2013
Curtin O’Donoghue Photography Award 2013
RESIDENCIES
1995
Sanskriti Kendra New Delhi India
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
1992
Waterford Regional Hospital ‘Quintessometry’
1994
The Green Building Temple Bar ‘The Green Machine’
1996
Naas By Pass. ‘Perpetual Motion’ Collaboration
1997
Microsoft W.P.G.I. Leopardstown Dublin ‘In Touch’
1997
Newcastle Upon Tyne ‘Meltdown’ Collaboration
1997
Brú na Boinne Visitors Centre O.P.W. ‘Satellites’
1998
Alma Place Monkstown Co. Dublin – ‘Turnstone’
2000
Edinburgh International Conference Centre UK – ‘First Conundrum’
2002
Glór Ennis Co. Clare ‘Sound Seeds’
2000
‘The Whoseday Book’ Irish Hospice Foundation
2002
‘Portmarnock Strand Eccentric Orbit’ Collaboration
2002
The Great Book Of Gaelic ‘ Touring’
2004
Ballyheige Co Kerry ‘Temple of the Waves’
2005
Meath County Council Offices Ashbourne. ‘Silent Witness’
2006
Jury’s Hotel Charlotte Place Southampton UK ‘Gods Navel’
2006
Free fall’ Drogheda Swimming Pool’
2007
Ballina Mayo, Eye Witness
2007
Ballyhaunis Co Mayo, Point of view
2008
Castleblayney bombing Memorial Co Monaghan
In Progress
Prison Services Headquaters, Longford,OPW, ‘A Voice’
2011
Pobalscoil Inbhear Sceine Kenmare Co Kerry ‘A Wake’
2013
VOICE 2013 Irish Prison Services Headquaters (OPW) Longford
COLLECTIONS
Work in private collections, at home and abroad including Irish Life – Aer Rianta, Donegal CC, Wicklow CC. The Arts Council and the O.P.W
Remco de Fouw ANCAD ARHA, part time assistant lecturer IT Carlow
Graduated from N.C.A.D with a first class honours Degree in Fine Art Sculpture 1991. He has had six solo exhibitions to date, at The Project arts centre, 1994
The Limerick City Gallery, 1994, Temple Bar galleries 1997, The Model Arts centre Sligo 1998, The Kevin Kavanagh Gallery 2002, The Atlantic Gallery Clifden 2003 and the Norman Gallery 2009.
As a full time professional artist, Public commissions make up the main body of his work, Among these are ‘Quintessometry’ at Waterford regional Hospital. ’First Conundrum’ at Festival square, Edinburgh International Conference Center. ‘Gods Navel’ at Charlotte plc Southampton. ‘Silent Witness’ at Meath county buildings, Ashbourne, ‘Eye witness’ at the N26 Ballina and ‘A fracture of time, Castleblayney bombing Memorial co Monaghan and is currently working on a major commission for the OPW. He has exhibited regularly at the RHA annual exhibition and with various group exhibitions around the country.