Basil Blackshaw (Born in Glengormley, Co. Antrim 1932) is an Irish painter.

Blackshaw's painting are often figurative in form, but with a non-naturalistic palate which rebalances the composition in an expressionist, even abstract, way. His themes are very Irish and often rural; greyhounds, Irish Travellers and the landscape. He has also produced portraits and has designed posters for Derry's Field Day Theatre Company. This article is about the breed of dog; for other meanings of Greyhound, see Greyhound (disambiguation). ... Irish Travellers are a nomadic or itinerant people of Irish origin living in Ireland, Great Britain and the United States. ... Derry or Londonderry (in Irish , Doire Cholm Chille or Doire), often called the Maiden City, is a city in Northern Ireland. ...

The Arts Council of Northern Ireland organised a major retrospective of his work in 1995, which travelled from Belfast to Dublin, Cork and many galleries in the U.S. In 2001 he received the Glen Dimplex award for a Sustained Contriubtion to the Visual Arts in Ireland is the distinguished Irish painter Basil Blackshaw. The Ulster Museum held a major exhibition of his work in 2002. The Ulster Museum is located in the Botanical Gardens in Belfast and has around 8,000 square metres of public display space, featuring material from the collections of Fine and Applied Art, Archaeology, Ethnography, Treasures from the Armada, Local History, Numismatics, Industrial Archaeology, Botany, Zoology and Geology. ...

Works in Collections

• The Arts Council of Northern Ireland including:
  • The Last Walk (http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/aotm/1995/dec1995.htm)
• The Arts Council of Ireland including:
  • Green Landscape (1980) (http://www.artscouncil.ie/gallery/details.asp?id=42)
• The Ulster Museum
• The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin, including:
  • Niall's Pony (1997) (http://www.hughlane.ie/collection/collDetail.asp?offset=2)

The Arts Council of Ireland is a government funded body which promotes art in the Republic of Ireland. ... The Ulster Museum is located in the Botanical Gardens in Belfast and has around 8,000 square metres of public display space, featuring material from the collections of Fine and Applied Art, Archaeology, Ethnography, Treasures from the Armada, Local History, Numismatics, Industrial Archaeology, Botany, Zoology and Geology. ... The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery is an art gallery funded by Dublin City Council and located in Charlemont House in Dublin city in Ireland. ...

References and External Links

• Brian McAvera (2002), Basil Blackshaw: A New Vision (http://www.irishartsreview.com/html/vol19_no3/blackshaw/blackshaw_feature.htm), Irish Arts Review Vol 19 No 3.
• Aosdána short biography (http://www.artscouncil.ie/aosdana/biogs/visualarts/basilblackshaw.html)
• The Press Release announcing the 2001 Glen Dimplex award (http://www.modernart.ie/en/page_19287.htm)