Paul McGrane
Paul McGrane (b.1991, Dublin) is an artist & curator working in Dublin, Ireland. He graduated from Technological University Dublin in 2015 with a BA in Fine Art.
His practice focuses predominantly on painting and sculptural installation. McGrane is intersted the "commonplace", everyday spaces, in which we all find ourselves living, working and navigating in.
For instance McGrane recalls once opening a white cabinet in a bathroom, it was completely empty, apart from toothpaste and lipstick marks. In sections the surface was worn down to wood.
What intrigued him was that such a small enclosed space could be so active with traces of colour, time and memory
Paul McGrane
NNTEITH, 2025
oil paint emulsion linen and cotton canvases
320 x 180 cm
Survey
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Title Green Boy 2, 2025
oil paint and polychomos Pencil
150 x 120 cm -
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Process Red, 2025
oil paint emulsion polychromo pencil
150 x 120 cm -
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“Hybrid Theory”, 2025
oil paint, polychomos pencil on cotton
160 x 160 cm -
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User Manual, 2025
oil paint emulsion aerosol on linen
160 x 240 cm
Biography
Paul McGrane (b.1991, Dublin) is an artist & curator working in Dublin, Ireland. He graduated from Technological University Dublin in 2015 with a BA in Fine Art. He worked as co-curator for The Complex Gallery from 2016 - 2019.
Recent awards include Hang Tough Solo Exhibition Award, Dublin, and Rua Red Winter Open Award (2019), Dublin. Agility Award (2025).
Recent exhibitions include Páipéar (2022) at Hang Tough Gallery, Dublin, Solo exhibition, "I Will Follow you Into the Dark" Rua Red (2023). Solo exhibition "Memories Pieced Together", The Complex (2023). RHA Annual group show (2025). and Herman's Auctioneers group exhibition (2025).
His work is included in the Office Of Public Works, State Art Collection, The Law Society of Ireland and multiple private collections.