Michael Wann

Camille, 2024

Charcoal on paper 

"Having long been an admirer of Camille Souter’s work, I was fortunate in 2017 to find myself in her company while on residency at the Heinrich Böll Cottage on Achill Island. Over the following weeks, she invited me to her home to show her my  current work. After some persuasion, she agreed  to my doing her portrait. This drawing is from a series of portraits made this year, in memory of that time, and of Camille’s distinct humour  and personality." - Michael Wann

Dublin-born Michael Wann lives and works in Sligo. He has held solo exhibitions at venues including the Royal Hibernian Academy, Cross Gallery, Dublin, Custom House, Westport, Solstice, Navan, Draíocht, Dublin, Claremorris Gallery, Co. Mayo and Solomon Fine Art, Dublin. He has won the AXA Insurance Drawing Prize, the ESB Seán Keating Prize and RHA Silver Medal, the Tom Caldwell Drawing Prize and the Inaugural Rowel Friers Perpetual Trophy at the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts. His work features in public and corporate collections including the Boyle Civic Collection, the Waterford Municipal Collection,  the Office of Public Works, Mayo County Council, Fingal County Council, Beaumont Hospital, the Ballinglen Arts Foundation Collection, Co. Mayo, The Niland Collection, Sligo, and the National Gallery of Ireland. He is represented by Solomon Fine Art, Dublin. 

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