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Artist Talk: Gerry Davis

Artist Talk: Gerry Davis

April 25 - April 25, 2024
The Lord Mayor's Pavilion, Fitzgerald's Park

On the occassion of the opening of his new solo exhibition in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion ‘The Dancing Grass’, artist Gerry Davis will give a public talk about his work on Thursday April 25th, 5.30-6.30pm.

Originally from Cahir, Co. Tipperary, Gerry Davis studied painting at the Limerick School of Art and Design from 2005 to 2009. After graduating, he helped to set up Wickham Street Studios in Limerick where he based his painting practice from 2009-2019. In that time, he exhibited widely, including solo shows in Pallas Projects, Dublin, The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, and The Galway Arts Centre. He has also won numerous awards, including the Lewis Crosby Award for Painting at the Student Art Awards in the RDS, 2 merit prizes at the Golden Fleece Award and was shortlisted for the Hennessy-Craig Award at the RHA. In 2016, he won the Hennessy Portrait Prize at the National Gallery of Ireland for his painting ‘Sean’ and, as a result, was commissioned to paint a portrait of renowned Kilkenny hurler Henry Shefflin for the NGI’s permanent portrait collection.

The paintings in this latest solo exhibition in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, ‘The Dancing Grass’ continue his experimentation with AI-generated imagery in the painting process, with a conscious effort to have more of a human hand in the construction of said imagery and, one could say, a return to “authenticity”.

On the occassion of the opening of his new solo exhibition in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion ‘The Dancing Grass’, artist Gerry Davis will give a public talk about his work on Thursday April 25th, 5.30-6.30pm.

Originally from Cahir, Co. Tipperary, Gerry Davis studied painting at the Limerick School of Art and Design from 2005 to 2009. After graduating, he helped to set up Wickham Street Studios in Limerick where he based his painting practice from 2009-2019. In that time, he exhibited widely, including solo shows in Pallas Projects, Dublin, The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, and The Galway Arts Centre. He has also won numerous awards, including the Lewis Crosby Award for Painting at the Student Art Awards in the RDS, 2 merit prizes at the Golden Fleece Award and was shortlisted for the Hennessy-Craig Award at the RHA. In 2016, he won the Hennessy Portrait Prize at the National Gallery of Ireland for his painting ‘Sean’ and, as a result, was commissioned to paint a portrait of renowned Kilkenny hurler Henry Shefflin for the NGI’s permanent portrait collection.

The paintings in this latest solo exhibition in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, ‘The Dancing Grass’ continue his experimentation with AI-generated imagery in the painting process, with a conscious effort to have more of a human hand in the construction of said imagery and, one could say, a return to “authenticity”.