McGreevy’s works are responses to a collected archive of personal and found imagery drawn from the media, personal experiences and the everyday. They offer a quizzical and intimate overview of the layers of images and spaces, whether tangible or abstract, which McGreevy encounters.
ARTIST BIO
Mark McGreevy is a graduate of Ulster University, Belfast. His exhibitions include shows at The MAC, Belfast; VISUAL, Carlow; The F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge; The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast; The Lab Gallery, Dublin; Third Space Gallery, Belfast; The Crawford Gallery, Cork; Katzen Art Centre, Washington, DC; The Glucksman, Cork, among others. McGreevy is the recipient of many awards including the Suki Tea Prize, Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Awards, Arts Council NI SIAP and The Freeland’s Foundation. He has been shortlisted for prestigious art prizes such as The AIB Award and BOC Emerging Artist Award and has participated on artist residency programmes at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, and The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. His work is held many public and private collections.
Analogue Dog, 2019, Mark MCGreevy, 120x90cm, Oil on canvas.
Top Left: An installation of shot of Flop Sweat, Mark McGreevy, The MAC, Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2019.
Mark McGreevy Studio, QSS, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2021
Each motif within the paintings/drawings battle against another for dominance reflecting the memory’s hierarchical system of image selection, thus questioning how we quantify the value of our experience and the resulting images we draw upon from our memory.
Culvert I, 2016, Mark McGreevy, 24.8x17.5cm, watercolour on cold pressed paper.
An installation of shot of Flop Sweat, Mark McGreevy, The MAC, Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2019.
Mark McGreevy Studio, QSS, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2021
