Michael Cullen
Michael Cullen was born in Wicklow, Ireland and studied at NCAD, Dublin and Central School of Art & Design, London. His paintings are of an autobiographical nature and are most often celebratory. His bright colours are applied most often in impasto and the palette is perhaps influenced by his time spent in Spain, France and Morocco. He is clearly influenced by Fauvism, particularly Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973).
Though a figurative artist, Cullen ‘enjoys the post-Cubist freedom to ignore conventional rules of perspective trading this freedom off against the limitation of acknowledged flatness. Besides the space itself, however, he has also taken liberties with naturalistic representations of figures and objects, radically reorganising structures in a directly Cubist manner…’. Aidan Dunne in Irish Arts Review Yearbook Vol 11.
Among his achievements, he was awarded the Independent Artist’s Major Painting Award in 1984 and the National Portrait Award in 1989. He has had a number of solo exhibitions in various commercial galleries in Ireland as well as being in notable collections including Dublin City Galley The Hugh Lane, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Dundee Contemporary Arts Society Scotland. He is an elected member of Aosdána and a member of Royal Hibernian Academy.
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Though a figurative artist, Cullen ‘enjoys the post-Cubist freedom to ignore conventional rules of perspective trading this freedom off against the limitation of acknowledged flatness. Besides the space itself, however, he has also taken liberties with naturalistic representations of figures and objects, radically reorganising structures in a directly Cubist manner…’. Aidan Dunne in Irish Arts Review Yearbook Vol 11.
Among his achievements, he was awarded the Independent Artist’s Major Painting Award in 1984 and the National Portrait Award in 1989. He has had a number of solo exhibitions in various commercial galleries in Ireland as well as being in notable collections including Dublin City Galley The Hugh Lane, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Dundee Contemporary Arts Society Scotland. He is an elected member of Aosdána and a member of Royal Hibernian Academy.
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