OLIVER WHELAN, NCAD Dublin tutor, 2011 Residency/studio Atelier 303. Berlin Germany.

Exhibitions in multi locations all around the world

Recent One Person Shows: At moment organizing group exhibition in Vienna Austria,

Group Shows: RHA invited artist. NCAd Collection Exhibition.

Retrospective Show, Project Arts Centre, Dublin

Solo Show, Royal Melbourne Institute, Australia

Three Artists Exhibition, Projects Arts Centre, Dublin

Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin

The Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland................

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Publications (Bibliography):

Collections / Commissions / Consultancy / Selection committees etc.:

Board of works, government buildings, Dublin castle, Dept. Education, ESB, NCAD. MRIT Melbourne Australia. Marie de France Gallery Jalapa Mexico.

Awards / Prizes / Scholarships:

Richard Demarco Traveling Scholarship throughout Europe.

Australian European Award, one year studying in Australia.

Independents Bursary Awards

Department of Foreign Affairs Travel Award, Australian Bicentennial Exhibition

Traveling scholarship from the department of foreign Affairs to exhibit in Mexico

Conference / Symposium Papers:

Art in the digital world Tate Brittan 2002/2003

Reviews: Circa Art Magazine, Irish Times review. The Australian, The Voice (Aus.) Mexican Times. Art review, Irish Business Post, Etc.

Other:

 Profile: Oliver Whelan is a Multi Media artist working from Dublin. He has exhibited in major solo shows in Australia, Mexico, Britain, and Ireland, and has represented his country in Europe and Australia. He has also had extensive representations in-group exhibits organized by the state, art critics, institutions and galleries. He gave a lecture on his practice at TATE Britain in 2003 as part of a conference on ‘Digital Surface within fine Art Practice’. At present he is a director of Civic Media, A company that displays Art within an urban context, with the use of large photograph images on hoardings and banners. Invited artist to RHA ’07.

Over the twenty years working as an Artist, Oliver has received a number of major awards. One of which was the Australian European award, which covered a study period of one year in Australia, and included a studio, extensive travel and exhibition. He also received awards from Richard Demarco, for travel throughout Europe with Exhibition. A Department of Foreign Affairs exhibition awards, with a number of other travel, exhibition and Bursary awards. He was the founder member of the first Artist studio / complex in Ireland, and has also been a committee member of the Irish Exhibition of living Art, one of Irelands Premier Exhibitions, He was also a Board member and Chairperson of CIRCA, an Irish and International arts Magazine.

Research; Art and science, in particular the relationship to art and theories within quantum physics.

Oliver Whelan

MARCIN KOWALIK, paintings, tutor at the Art Academy in Cracaw
Marcin Kowalik was born in Zamosc in 1 981 and he graduated from the local high school of fine arts.
From 2001 – 2006 he studied painting in the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the workshop of
professor Adam Wsiołkowski. Under his supervision he also achieved the PhD degree. Currently he
takes the position of his assistant in his workshop.
Kowalik performs painting and art within the scope of installations, object and performance.
He is an organizer, art curator and artistic supervisor.
He was a scholarship holder of many scholarship programmes, for example of Minister of Culture and
National Heritage (2001 ), The President of Zamosc (2002), Crosskick Academie, Berlin (2007), PhD
Scholarship of Academy of Fines Art in Cracow (2008), Ateliers Höherweg 271 , Düsseldorf (2008),
Grazzell’s scholarship (2009) and The Scholarship of creative President of Cracow City (201 1 ).
Currently, he lives and creates in Cracow and in his private life he is a husband and father of two sons.

Marcin Kowalik