Phil Irish, from Elora, Ontario, has exhibited widely across Canada and the United States. He earned a BA in Fine Art and English Literature from the University of Guelph in 1995. Exhibitions at public museums, artist-run-centres, and commercial galleries include Oakville Galleries, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Galerie Joyce Yahouda, Angell Gallery, and AKA Artist Run Centre. His contribution to the Francophonie International Painting Competition was exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada. La Manif d’Art 4, Quebec City’s biennial, featured his work. He has developed new work during residencies in Newfoundland, at the Symposium in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec, and as the City of Kitchener’s Artist in Residence. Irish applied his painterly vision to a web-based artwork for Oakville Galleries. He was shortlisted for the Kingston Prize, Canada’s national portrait competition.
To see more work, visit Phil’s website at www.philirish.com.
Oil and digital print on panel. 140 cm x 110 cm. 2010.This fire was one of the most dramatic fires in Guelph, right in the downtown core.Following the structure of my map paintings, I collected an annotated map from Guelph artist Greg Denton, who had rented a studio...
Oil and digital print on panel 2008 15 cm x 110 cmI am always curious about how a location can hold a memory, a meaning, full of associations and emotional pull. Someone drew me a map to this hilltop, noting that "you can swing on the ski lifts, during the summer, and...
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