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Felim Egan was born in Strabane in 1952. He began exhibiting in the late
1970s and is best known as a painter of restrained eloquence who sparingly
deploys his vocabulary of hieroglyphic motifs over monochromatic expanses
of colour. In 1993 he was awarded the Premier UNESCO Prize for the Arts
in Paris, and he received the Gold Award at Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1997. Major
exhibitions of his work were held at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin in 1995/6 and at the Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam in 1999. He is represented in numerous collections, both
public and private, including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, and the New York City Public Library, the Irish Museum of Modern Art,
Deutsche Bank, London, Fritz-Winter-Haus, Moderne Kunst, Ahlen, Germany,
the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the European Parliament. |
