Voice

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.