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Upcoming Exhibition

Paddy Critchley

15 July — 16 September 2023
PADA Installation Shot Paddy Critchley
Untitled and Endgame Pulse Limerick City Gallery Paddy Critchley
Waiting Act 1 1 Dunamaise Theatre Paddy Critchley
  • Date 15 July — 16 September 2023
  • Opening Hours

    Monday to Saturday 10am -5pm

    Current exhibitions close Saturday Feb 4th at 3pm

Paddy Critchley is a painter from Portlaoise, County Laois. He works in Wickham St. Studios Limerick and his Father’s paint shed in Portlaoise. He is a painter, with a keen interest in the theatre of the absurd. Also a painter and decorator, he incorporates elements of this trade into his work. Installation plays an integral part to his practise, as seen in his exhibition ‘Waiting’ where he held an exhibition-play on the theatre stage of the Dunamase Arts Centre. Paddy takes great inspiration from artists and writers such as Joseph Beuys, Brendan Behan and Robert Tressell. Tressell’s book ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ has influenced Paddy’s newest work greatly. Ideas of socialism, working class struggles and livelihood, the people in close proximity to him, and the trade of painting and decorating are subjects explored within his work.

The motif of the ladder is used to encapsulate these principles. This object is reoccurring in his paintings, and is shown alongside his work, along with other tools and trade items. Paddy wishes to explore the relationship between his life in the studio making paintings, and his life painting houses. He believes that his work is a form of social sculpture, responding to his life and environment, and how the differences between a painter and decorator and a fine art painter are minimal.

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