Sonia Shiel

The exhibition’s title is taken from a 1992 album by Lou Reed. The album consists of a sequence of gritty, downbeat songs, which may account for its relative obscurity. But...

The term dirty — wow — sun* is an emerging multi-lingual neologism used as an alternative for 'The Anthropocene.’ Attributing an enhanced vibrancy to pollution, it describes hyper-saturated sunsets -...

THE DANGERS OF HAPPY Sonia Shiel's paintings for The Dangers Of Happy depict the simplest of human endeavours - an adult climbs a tree with a child, neighbours navigate a...

To mark 25 years as a gallerist in Dublin, I have put together a special exhibition, SILVER. It is a personal selection of art works, each by an artist associated...

Kevin Kavanagh is proud to present How The Oyster Makes The Pearl, a solo show by Sonia Shiel. Sonia Shiel’s interdisciplinary practice combines key methodologies from art, law and theatre...

Sonia Shiel, Kathy Tynan, Marcel Vidal, Mark Swords, Salvatore of Lucan, Joe Scullion, Robert Armstrong, Julia Dubsky, Lesley-Ann O’Connell, Pat Byrne, Stephen Loughman, Cecilia Danell, William O’Neill and Stephanie Deady  ...

Rectangle, a written thing, 2017, is presented in four ensembles. These painted works conjure theatrical tropes without motion, containing performative moments within the stasis and composition of painting. Such poles...

Sonia Shiel’s highly imaginative mode of representational painting references the art historical lexicon of painting – early Flemish, romanticism, portraiture, surrealism and yet creates work that is distinctively her own...

Robert Armstrong(b. 1953) Lives and works in Dublin.“Armstrong’s paintings re-order the fragments of a disorientated image culture. They attempt to penetrate through multiple layers of appearance, offering an incidental practice...

Sonia Shiel’s installations, often composed of paintings, sculpture and video, explore the propensity of Art to be effective in the real world, while pitching mankind’s most earnest endeavours against their...