Tipperary born artist opens new exhibition at South Tipperary Arts Centre
Crossing Ground
A new exhibition was opened at the South Tipperary Arts Centre last Friday.
Crossing Ground, is an exhibition by Tipperary born artist Rory Prout ands it runs until November 30.
His paintings employ a variety of techniques that combine to create truly mesmerising and evocative works.
Rory Prout's paintings address experiences of remote or rural landscapes, of sites the artist has visited and environments he's moved through while collecting images to work on in the studio.
Together with an embodied engagement with landscape, Prout is fascinated with the idea of 'inventing the medium'; of creating a novel process of image making specific to his concerns.
He has held solo exhibitions in Ireland and the UK, and appeared in group shows in institutions such as The Royal Academy of Arts London, Towner Eastbourne, and Limerick City Gallery of Art.
In 2015 Prout was the Painter in Residence for the Irish Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The same year he was also awarded the Emerging Irish Artist Residency Award at The Burren College of Art.
His work appears in the collections of the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Foreign Affairs in Ireland, as well as many private collections throughout Ireland and the UK.
A newly commissioned text by Joseph Jones, (an artist and writer based in Sussex UK, and a senior lecturer in art theory at the University of Brighton) accompanies this exhibition.