Solomon Fine Art is delighted to host an exhibition of new paintings by the multiple award-winning artist Comhghall Casey.  Born in 1976 Casey grew up in Omagh, Co Tyrone before moving to Belfast to study fine art at the University of Ulster. He has been living and working in Dublin since graduating.

Comhghall Casey Retrospective Exhibition @ Strule Arts Centre • 15 April – 28 May 2016

Running concurrently with the Solomon exhibition, his fourth solo show with the gallery, is Comhghall Casey’s mid-career retrospective at the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh, Co. Tyrone. This major exhibition features drawings and paintings charting the artist’s development from his school days in Omagh to the present.

The outstandingly talented Casey’s small-scale still-lifes in oil are intimate studies of everday objects such as vegetables, fruit and children’s toys and each is meticulously observed. The compositions are universally simple, where the object is placed centrally against a neutral background focusing the viewer’s attention and highlighting the artist’s skill and spectacular attention to detail. He says; “the intention is that the resulting images are tangible, distinct and convincing, with an understated presence extending beyond the subject depicted.”

Comhghall also produces regular self-portraits; like the still-lives they are simply composed allowing him to work on colour and his typical exquisite detailing. This exhibition will feature his most recent self-portrait. In 2013 his ‘Self Portrait as a Cyclist’ was shortlisted for the esteemed BP Portrait Award in the UK and in 2015 his ‘Self-Portrait 2014’ was also selected for the BP Award.  Both paintings were subsequently hung in the National Portrait Gallery, London, the National Scottish Portrait Gallery and the Ulster Museum.  

Comhghall has also received numerous important awards at the RHA and RUA (including the prestigious Hennessey Craig Scholarship) and his paintings have been selected by the Royal Academy in London from 2011 to 2013.  His work features in many notable collections including the National Self Portrait Collection and the Ulster Museum. In 2015 An Post issued an edition of stamps featuring Casey’s toy paintings.