MADRA Art Auction 2021 - Flipbook - Page 17
MADRA ANNUAL ART AUCTION, 2021
Leah Beggs
Title: Beach Sunset
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size: 24 x 24cm, framed
Reserve: €220
Leah graduated from Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design in Dublin in 1996 with a
Diploma in Fine Art. Originally from Dublin, she currently lives and works in Connemara, Co.
Galway on the West Coast of Ireland. Her work forms part of various collections in Ireland
including The Doyle Hotel Collection, Deloitte Art Collection, Savills Ireland, Garda HQ, Office
of the Revenue Commissioners, An Bord Pleanála, Microsoft Irish Art Collection, Dun
Laoghaire Rathdown County Council (DLR), Charleville Hotel Rathmines and The Stephens
Hall Hotel Leeson Street. In 1998 & 2000, Leah was commissioned by the Office of Public
Works to develop ten specific pieces which hang in the National Concert Hall and the
Department of the Taoiseach respectively. Recent solo exhibitions include Solomon Fine Art,
Dublin (Jan 2019, Sept 2016 & Oct 2014), The Market Place Arts Centre Armagh (Jan 2013)
The Kenny Gallery Galway (Feb 2009) The Linenhall Arts Centre Castlebar (May 2009) and
The Signal Arts Centre Bray (Sept 2009). She exhibits regularly in many group shows,
selected group shows include RUA Belfast (Sept 2008), ‘Ealaíon at Lúnasa’ Group show
directed by Galway City Museum, Galway Arts Centre and Galway University Hospitals Arts
Trust (Aug 2009), CCA:RDS Dublin curated by Helen Carey (Nov 2010) ‘Not the Royal
Academy’ Llewellyn Alexander Gallery in London (Summer 2013 & 2014) and Barbara
Stanley Gallery, London (Summer 2015). She is a founding and active member of
uachtarARTS, a community arts group in Oughterard, Co. Galway. In 2011, 2013 & 2017 she
was awarded an Individual Artist Bursary from Galway County Council, and a purchase prize
from the 2013 DLR Open Submission.
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