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Donald Teskey (b.1956) WOMEN ON SYNGE STREET signed and dated [1995] lower right oil on...

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Donald Teskey (b.1956) WOMEN ON SYNGE STREET signed and dated [1995] lower right oil on...
Donald Teskey (b.1956)
WOMEN ON SYNGE STREET
signed and dated [1995] lower right
oil on paper
75 by 104cm., 29.5 by 41in.
Exhibited:
‘Donald Teskey New Paintings’, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, 9-25 November 1995
Born in Limerick, Donald Teskey studied at the Limerick College of Art and
Design, before moving to Dublin where he has lived for over twenty years,
painting and teaching at NCAD. He has long been an observer of the urban
environment, trawling the littoral zone where townscape and "nature" overlap.
However, as Andrew Lambirth wrote in an essay to accompany Teskey’s 1999
exhibition at the Rubicon, "he is no chronicler of neat public gardens; the
well-worn lamppost on the street-corner is a more favoured subject". Like fellow
Shannon-sider John Shinnors, Teskey’s canvases are carefully mapped out in terms
of tone and chiaroscuro, creating a pervasive sense of mystery to his
compositions. Human figures are in perpetual motion, "scurrying off stage left
or right" on secret, personal errands. They are united with their environs
however, by the vigorously applied impasto, which the artist applies with
plasterers’ trowels, scraping back, repainting, and sculpting his paint in a
rich, thick layer, covering all - humans, shop-fronts, housing façades, iron
fence railings, lampposts - as one.
Teskey’s work is in the permanent collections of the Arts Council, the Office of
Public Works, the Haverty Trust, AIB, the Butler Gallery Kilkenny, Aer Rianta,
the Jefferson Smurfit Group, and Great Southern Hotels, among many others.
€7,000-€8,000 (£4,600-£5,200 sterling approx.)
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