MADRA Art Auction 2021 - Flipbook - Page 14
MADRA ANNUAL ART AUCTION, 2021
Imelda Healy
Title: Summer pasture
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 40 x 40cm, framed
Reserve: €295
Imelda Healy was born in and lives in Dublin. She holds degrees in Social Sciences from
UCD, History of Art from Trinity College, and a B.F.A. from NCAD. She studied painting as a
mature student and won the Symantec Prize for her degree show at the Gallagher Gallery,
RHA in 2001. Imelda was a founding member of Brunswick Mills Studio and Tondo art group.
She has exhibited in many solo and group shows in Ireland and California, where she lived in
Santa Monica for three years and founded Berkeley Alley Studios, a collective of women
artists. As part of her practice, Imelda has created and run art programs for recovering addicts
from the inner city at Merchants Quay, prisoners on probation at Dorset and Irishtown centres
and community groups in Ringsend. She curated “River,” a show of work from these groups,
at the Civic Offices, Dublin in 2005. Imelda taught drawing classes at the National Gallery
from 2007-9 and has been a part-time faculty member in painting and drawing at IADT since
2008.
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