Texts
From Artist’s Book to Online Artwork, an article on the development of the online artwork Onym, that I contributed to the Visual Artists News Sheet, 2020.
Brush strokes with echoes of music, a review of Push and Pull at the RHA by Aidan Dunne for the Irish Times, 2018
Push and Pull reviewed by Phillip Kavanagh for the Visual Artists' News Sheet, 2018
A review of Push and Pull at the RHA by Danny Kelly for Circa, 2018
A text on the exhibition Jealous Wall written by curator Séamus McCormack, 2017
Approaching the Landscape at RuaRed, Tallaght reviewed by Aidan Dunne for the Irish Times, 2015
A text by Davey Moor written for the exhibition Tentamen, North Great George's Street, 2012
None Went Mad. . .None Ran Away a text by Rowan Sexton for a group show at the Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, 2012
Out of the Ordinary a text by Declan Long commissioned for the solo show Out Of Order at the LAB, Dublin, 2011
Out of Order at the LAB, Dublin reviewed by James Merrigan for Billion, 2011
Out of Order at the LAB, Dublin reviewed by Alissa Kleist for The Visual Artists' News Sheet, 2011
Out of Order, the LAB, Dublin reviewed by Lauren Hisada for Dubliner Magazine, 2011
Out of Order at the LAB, Dublin reviewed by Adrian Duncan for Paper Visual Art Journal, 2011
Futures 10 at the Royal Hibernian Academy reviewed by Aidan Dunne for the Irish Times, 2010
An excerpt from Fragmenting the Mould a catalogue essay by Donal Maguire for Material Worlds: Contemporary Sculpture from the UK and Ireland, F.E. McWillam Gallery, Banbridge, N.Ireland, 2010
Paperplane at the Joinery, Dublin reviewed by Barbara Knezevic for Paper Visual Art Journal, 2010
Preponderance of the Small reviewed by Rosalind Abbot for Trinity College's University Times
A review of the group show Bookish - When Books Become Art by Gerry McCarthy for the Sunday Times, 2009
Bookish - When Books Become Art by Gemma Carroll for the Circa website, 2009
Short text on my first solo show by Gemma Tipton from the book The LAB Gallery 40 Exhibitions 06-08, 2008
A text by Peter Richards written for my first solo show at the Lab, Feb 2008
Bridging the Gap, a text I wrote about a graduate residency at Flax Art Studios, Belfast focussing on making the transition from art college to working in my first studio, Visual Artists' News Sheet, 2007
Launch / Making Do reviewed by Tim Stott for the Circa website, 2007
Other Media
Curator Seamus McCormack discusses the group exhibition Jealous Wall.
I spoke to Vanessa Monaghan aka Nessa about my exhibition Out of Order at the Lab for her Culture Cafe programme on RTE’s digital radio station XFM in 2011. The feature on the exhibition starts at 17mins 28secs.
Bio
Niall de Buitléar was born in 1983 in Dublin and graduated from the Dublin Institute of Technology with a BA in Fine Art in 2006 and a postgraduate diploma in Creative Digital Media in 2014.
Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the RHA, Dublin; Pallas Projects, Dublin; the Wexford Arts Centre; 126, Galway; and twice at the The Lab, Dublin. He has participated in two-person exhibitions at the Wexford Arts Centre and Queen Street Studios, Belfast. Group exhibitions include a show curated by Robert Armstrong at the Dunmaise Gallery, Portlaoise and Jealous Wall at the Luan Gallery curated by Séamus McCormack.
Previous group exhibitions include Out/Tuo at Catalyst Arts, Belfast; None Went Mad...None Ran Away, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin; Futures 10, RHA, Dublin; Material Worlds: Contemporary Sculpture from Ireland and the UK, FE McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge; Dawning of an Aspect, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin; Bookish: When Books Become Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork; and An Exhibition In 5 Chapters, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.
In 2020 he received an award from the Arts Council of Ireland to develop the online artwork Onym (www.onym.ie). He also was awarded a Fingal Arts Residency Award at Graphic Print Studio in 2020 and is currently working on a screen-print collaboration with Damn Fine Print.
He is a previous winner of the Red Stables Irish Residential Studio Award; the Wexford Arts Centre's Emerging Visual Artist's Award; The Flax Art Studios Graduate Award; and numerous Artists Council Awards.
He was a member of Temple Bar Gallery and Studios from 2011 - 2014 and is currently based at Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin.
Bio last updated: June 2020