Paul Rooney's Online Portfolio

paulroonie@yahoo.com
rooneypaul@eircom.net

WORK

Digital Based Artwork using Adobe Photoshop, and Digital Photography with found images and materials, inkjet printed on tissue paper. Final works are collaged together and resin sealed. Selected images available as A4 editioned prints.

BACKGROUND

Since 1991 Paul Rooney has worked in various areas of the Art & Design industry. This includes street theatre / performance ; ceramics assistant ; book designer / Illustrator for Donegal Genealogical Society; education (Art & Technology technician at Victoria College, Belfast) and numerous community arts & workshop projects including two years as Community Arts Worker at The Doorway Project, Letterkenny.

His work is in private collections in Ireland, England, France, Germany, Holland and the United States (Boston, Louisiana, California & Nebraska) and Irish public collections including Donegal County Council, Office of Public Works, Coolkeeragh ESB and Letterkenny Institute of Technology. Paul has worked at the award winning Queen Street Studios, Belfast taken part in a "Wider Horizons Programme" (Internship at University of SouthWestern Louisiana, Lafayette, developing work in painting, sculpture & printmaking and is a founder member of Letterkenny Artspace Studios.

Recent work includes a large scale digital art commission for Coolkeeragh ESB with Oakgrove Integrated School, Derry and has recently been awarded The Derek Hill Foundation Prize at the Glebe Open Exhibition.









EXHIBITIONS:

Selected One Person Shows:

A BETTER PLACE @ Beckett Centre, Trinity College, Dublin, November ’04.
JPEG REMNANTS @ Donegal County Museum, Letterkenny, October. ’03.
b.c.d. @ An Grianan Theatre, Letterkenny,
October ’00.
ELEMENTAL @ Various locations, Letterkenny,
July '98.
EPHEMERAL @ Central Library & Arts Centre, Letterkenny, November `95.
SCHISM @ The Factory, Sligo & The Port Gallery, Letterkenny, May/July `93.
SCAPES @ Errigal Arts Festival Gallery, Letterkenny, July ‘92.
Selected Group Shows:

GLEBE OPEN @ Glebe Gallery, Churchill.
April ’04.
STARDUST @ The Context Gallery, Derry,
November ’00.
BUNTAS @ Ardara Working Arts Centre, Ardara, October ‘98.
CIOTH IS DEALAN @ Library & Arts Centre, Letterkenny, November '97.
CHURCH OF THE FUNK (with Matt McDonogh & DeCal) @ Central Library & Arts Centre, Letterkenny, July ‘97.
QUEEN STREET ARTISTS @ Berlin Irish Gallery, Berlin, December ‘95.
QUEEN STREET STUDIOS / LETTERKENNY ARTSPACE @ Central Library & Arts Centre, Letterkenny,
July ‘95.
CHRISTMAS SHOW @ Model Arts Centre, Sligo, December ‘94.
OIREACHTAS 94 @ Guinness Hopstore, Dublin, September ‘94.
$71 PHONE BILL @ USL Gallery, Lafayette, Louisiana, December ‘93.
GALAMATIA @ USL Gallery, Lafayette, Louisiana, November`93.
NORTHWEST ARTISTS STUDIO SHOW @ Bishop Street Studios, Derry, March ‘90.
NORTHWEST ARTISTS WINTER SHOW @ The Shirt Factory, Derry, December ‘89.