2015 Noel Sheridan

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NOEL SHERIDAN
Ιreland | Artist
Born: 12 December 1936, Dublin-Ireland
Died: 12 July 2006, Perth, Australia

Born in Dublin, Noel Sheridan studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Columbia University, New York. He exhibited at the Dawson Gallery in the late 1950s and represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale in 1960. He represented Ireland at the 1962 UNESCO Convention of young painters in Paris and he won the Carroll Prize for Painting at the Living Art Exhibition in Dublin in 1965 and 1969. Sheridan was Director of the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, Australia, from 1975 to 1980, Director of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin from 1980 to 2002, with a four-year hiatus to inaugurate and direct the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Australia. Sheridan was a founding member of Independent Artists, a committee member of Rosc and was elected to Aosdána. In 1994 he won the Emeritus Medal for cultural contribution from the Australia Council for the Arts. A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2001.
Sheridan worked as a gallery attendant in the Museum of Modern Art (New York), painting by night, and got a scholarship for Columbia University in 1967 for a masters in fine art.
He was from 1980 to 2002 director of the National College of Art and Design (NCAD, Dublin). He was also a committee member of Rosc and was elected to Aosdána.
Sheridan also worked in Australia for many years, and was Director of the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide from 1975 to 1980 and won the emeritus medal of the Australia Council for the Arts in 1994.