Aoibhin Maguire
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Aoibhin Maguire, Fuming, Screaming, 2021£ 2,600.00
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Aoibhin Maguire, So Elegant With Frustration 1, 2022£ 1,600.00
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Aoibhin Maguire, So Elegant With Frustration 2, 2022£ 1,600.00
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Aoibhin Maguire, The Bugs Birthday Party, 2022£ 3,000.00
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Aoibhin Maguire, Underwhelming, 2021£ 2,600.00
Aoibhin Maguire, b.1997 is a painter from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who now lives and works in London. She obtained her BA in Fine Art from Lancaster University, graduating with First Class Honours in 2019 and has recently graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Painting. Aoibhin has exhibited work in a variety of locations across the UK, such as The Open Eye Gallery, The Tub, Hackney, Espacio Gallery, The Function Suite and RuptureXIBIT. She has also curated (and exhibited in) a group show at RuptureXIBIT titled 'Coping, in Colour', featuring the work of six London based artists. Internationally, Aoibhin has exhibited in spaces such as Baku Gallery, C3 Lab, Rowe Galleries Juried Exhibition and Charlotte Art League, North Carolina, USA.
The first year of Aoibhin's MA was online due to the pandemic, so she used this time to take over a vacant retail space in a mall in Lisburn, Northern Ireland to open her own gallery and studio. She loved being able to work with local artists and help showcase their work, the highlight being her curation of a group exhibition 'EMERGING: A Room Full of Art' to help support local artists after the hardships endured during the pandemic, as well as hosting workshops and other events.
Her paintings are worlds of juxtapositions. Stories of disorder, or maybe just a different type of order. They are a dance between love and anger, fear and ecstasy, anxiety and bliss. A push and pull between hope and desperation, a constant conflict on canvas. They are filled with emotion, reoccurring symbols and a dose of nostalgia. The works are an overlap of reality and vivid imagination, of memories and the otherworldly. At times they are like parallel universes. How would things be if it were not for that one thing?
Born 1997 in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Lives & works in London, UK
EDUCATION
2022 Royal College of Art, MA Painting
2019 Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, BA (Hons) Fine Art, FIRST CLASS HONOURS
2018 Rowe Arts, University of North Carolina, Charlotte (Exchange Program)
2017 Lancaster University, Minor in Contemporary Social Problems
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Aoibhin Maguire Gallery and Studio, changing public displays of my work March-August, Bow Street Mall, Lisburn,
Northern Ireland (SOLO PRESENTATIONS)
2018 Featured Artist of the Month, Charlotte Art League, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Togetherness, Winter Exhibition, D31 Art Gallery, Doncaster, UK
Pull over and take a cig, Espacio Gallery, London, UK
Come one, Come all, The Function Suite, London, UK
Rupture Alumni Online Retrospective and physical exhibition at Hampton Wick Jubilee Event, RuptureXIBIT, London, UK
What Is Becoming Us, RuptureXIBIT, London, UK
RCA 22 Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Exhibition and Auction for Ukraine, The Engine Room Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Arts Fest, Arts For All, Cityside, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2021 Work In Progress, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Coping, in Colour, RuptureXIBIT, London, UK
2020 Feast: Holiday, Now, online ‘e-zine’ exhibition made by first year painting students at the RCA, UK
Life on Venus, The Tub, Hackney, London, UK
2019 H(U)MAN, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Beyond the Canvas, The Story, Lancaster, UK
Action Against Hunger, The Herbarium, Lancaster, UK
Miscellaneous Cartographies, Bowland Drawing Space, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Coordinate, LICA Degree Show, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
2018 Aoibhin Maguire and Myrthe Biesheuvel, Baku Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA (DUO SHOW)
Annual Juried Exhibition, Rowe Galleries, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Local International at Spirit Square Arts Centre, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA (DUO SHOW)
Resist, C3 Lab, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
18-25, The Herbarium, Lancaster, UK
Global Experiences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Fragments of the Library of Babel, group project to create a 34 ft installation for the library
walls, Storrs Architectural Library, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
2017 Mineral Spirits, Rowe Galleries, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Coalesced, Theatre Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
MA Sponsorships from The Chizel Educational Trust and The Sidney Perry Foundation
Shortlisted for Annual Colart Bursary
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Megazine Summer 2022 edition