Qualifications

Associate of NCAD
1991
Hon.s Degree; Painting
1991
Foundation Certificate
1987

Educations

BA Fine Art: National College of Art and Design, Dublin
1986 – 1991
Erasmus, Winchester College of Art, England
1990

Exhibitions

Boulder Milt 2021
2021
www.seancotter.com/bouldermilt2021
Hinterland, Gormley’s Gallery, Belfast
2013
The Dark Pastoral, Gormley’s Gallery, Dublin
2011
Memorate, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown
2011
The Slow Decent, Gormley’s Gallery, Dublin
2010
The Traveller, An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk
2009
Notational Morphologies, Lapua Art Museum, Lapua, Finland
2008
Galway Arts Festival, Galway
2007
Painted Tales, Wicklow County Buildings, Wicklow
2006
Painted Tales, Hallward Gallery, Dublin
2005
Éigse, Carlow Festival of Visual Art, Carlow
2005
New Paintings, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda
2005
Paintings and Drawings, Draiocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown
2004

Press

Gemma Tipton GIAF
2017
Irish Times 26-07-17
Gemma Tipton 7.42 ‘Between the Darkness and the Light’
2012
Life and Culture, Irish Times 18-04-12
Katherine Waugh : ‘7.42’ Catalogue essay
2011
Lapua Art Museum, Finland
Judy Murphy : Interview ‘Landscape is central to joint show that explores emotion and energy’
2009
Galway Tribune 24-07-09
Sean Cotter

Seán Cotter

Visual Artist
  • Elected to the Board of Directors at Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, 2020
  • Panel discussion ‘Collecting Who for What’, at Dunamaise Arts Centre. Chaired by Cliodhna Ní Anluain with Cristín Leach, Jacquie Moore, Kevin Kavanagh, and Seán Cotter,
June 2016
  • Elected to the Board of Management at Highlanes Gallery Drogheda, 2013
  • 7.42, Curated with Aoife Ruane and Esa Honkimaki. Exhibited at Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Lapua Museum, Lapua and The Cable Factory, Helsinki. Artists participating were Abigail O’Brien, Thomas Brezing, Seán Cotter and Mary Kelly, 2012

Residencies

Fish Factory Creative Centre, Iceland
2020
Creative Spark print studios, Dundalk
2016
Villa Ukuli, Lapua, Finland
2008/2010
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Monaghan
2007
Cill Rialig, Kerry
2005
Ludwigshafen, Germany
1997

Commissions

The Poetry Project, curated by Patrick T Murphy and Gemma Tipton
2013
http://thepoetryproject.ie/
Kildare County Council, paintings installed at Monasterevin Library, Kildare
2007

Selected Group Exhibitions

Surveyor, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan
2020
Feeling Home, Lapua Art Museum, Finland
2019
Consequence of Memory and Pulse, Burren College
2019
Taisce Lu: A Curator’s Choice, Basement Gallery, An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk
2019
Surveyor, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan
2019
Memory Has a Pulse, GIAF and Engage, Longford
2017
With Thomas Brezing and Gary Robinson
RHA Annual, Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin
2017
30 Years, Artists, Places, various venues across Ireland
2015/16
Breathing Space, Basement Gallery, An Táin, Dundalk
2016
In a Grave Time, video project commissioned by The Poetry Project
2013
Engage, Longford
2015
Landscape, Limerick City Gallery of Art
2012
7.42, Lapua Art Museum, Lapua, Finland and Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda
2011/12
RHA 180th Annual Exhibition
2010
Planes of Colour, Gormley’s, Belfast
2010
Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon
2010
Essence, Gormley’s, Belfast
2008
Ireland-England-Scotland, with Michael McSwiney, Jock McFadyen and Peter Howson, Kirkwood Gallery, Oslo, Norway
2007
Selected Artists, Vanguard Gallery, Cork
2007
Lomha, Selected show, Droichead Arts Centre, Basement Gallery Dundalk, Lapua Culturel Centre, Lapua Finland
2006
Iomha, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda Basement Gallery, Dundalk
2004
Selected Irish Artists, Arklow Arts Centre, Arklow
2004
Irish Artists, Barbara Stanley Gallery, London
2004

Awards

Invited Artist RHA Annual
2012
Louth Local Authority Grant
2008, 2010
Tyrone Guthrie Regional Bursary Award
2007
Kildare Corporation Touring Grant
1996
Arts Council/Aer Lingus Arts Flight Award
1996
Galway Corporation Exhibition Grant
1995
Erasmus Grant
1990