Patrick Hall

Born in 1935 in Co Tipperary, Patrick Hall studied at the Chelsea School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design in London. In 1966 he moved to Spain, returning to Ireland in 1974. Solo exhibitions include the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 1995; Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, 2002; Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, 2004; The Model, Sligo, 2006; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2007; The Model, Sligo, 2021; Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, 2022. Fergus McCaffrey, New York, 2023. Hall’s works are included in many private and public collections including the Arts Council of Ireland, the Dublin City Gallery: The Hugh Lane and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. He was appointed a member of Aosdána in 1982. He currently lives and works in Co. Sligo.

Patrick Hall
W.M. in a Striped Shirt, 2005
Oil on canvas
27.5 x 30 cm

Private Collection 

Survey

  • Sea Figure. 2011

    oil on canvas
    120 × 153 cm

  • Work Drawing #14, 2014

    ink and watercolour on paper
    25.5 × 25.5 cm

  • Stone with Bird, 2014

    oil on canvas
    122 × 153 cm

  • Seastone, 2009

    Oil on Canvas
    153 x 158 cm
    Collection of The Hugh Lane Gallery

Biography

“Painting is always a form of communication. We're not painting in a vacuum. We're painting because we're a member of the human race and this is our deepest way of communication and of receiving response. It's deeper than any other; it's deeper than sex; it's deeper than speaking; it's deeper than thought, because it is beyond thought. It is actually physical, and it's the physicality of the painting which connects me to other people, not just the painting, but its being. It's a mutual acknowledgement of our common physicality and fate...”

Patrick Hall From an interview with  Hans Ulrich Obrist