GAVIN MC CREA ART
Exhibitions
2020 The Minecraft Exhibition (Group, selected), The Minecraft gallery, Online
2020 Incognito (Group, invited) Solomon Gallery, Dublin
2020 Mind, Breath, Beat (3 Person, selected), 126 Gallery, Galway
2020 1ft SQ (Group, selected), Waterways Ireland, Enniskillen
2019 RUN (Group, invited), The Hyde Bridge Gallery Sligo, Sligo
2019 Incognito (Group, invited) Solomon Gallery, Dublin
2019 1ft SQ (Group, selected), Strule Arts Centre, Omagh
2019 Speed Power and Flow (Solo, selected), Ards Art Centre, Newtownards
2019 Intertidal (Solo, selected), Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina.
2019 Intertidal (Solo, selected), The Alley, Strabane, Co Tyrone
2018 Run (Group, invited), The Hyde Bridge, Sligo
Cairde Visual (Selected Group), The Model Sligo
Bluebell Arts Project (Group, selected), Gasyard, Derry
Incognito (Group selected), Solomon Gallery, Dublin
Innermost Limits (Award Solo), The Hyde Bridge Gallery Sligo
2017 Cairde Visual (Selected Group), The Model Sligo
Incognito (Group, selected), Solomon Gallery, Dublin
Out of the Blocks (Group Show), Institute of Technology Sligo,
2016 Xmas Exhibition (Group Show), Unit 4, Bundoran Retail Pk, Bundoran, Co Donegal.
Summer Show (Group Show), Higher Bridges Gallery, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh.
13 Degrees, Student Show, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim.
Third Year Fine Art Degree Show, Institute of Technology Sligo.
2016 Lateral (Group show), Strandhill People’s Market, Strandhill, Co Sligo.
2013/16Pockets Full of Water, Film Festival, Bundoran, Co. Donegal.
2013 Drew University Transatlantic Conference, Bundoran, Co. Donegal.
2012 Local Hands. (Group show), Local Hands, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal.
2011 Sea Sessions, Sea Sessions Music Festival, Bundoran, Co. Donegal.
2011 Flashlight (Invited Group), Bundoran, Co. Donegal.
2010 Kinsale Water Festival, Kinsale, Co. Cork
2007 Horizons (2 person, selected), The Dock, Carrick on Shannon Co. Leitrim.
Media
2019 Diafano magazine (Online)
2018 VAI News Sheet, Career Development Article.
Circa ART Magazine, This Matters Now
2016 Featured artist on Irish Arts Review – Next Generation.
2012 Guest Artist on RTE Dirty Old Towns.
2009 Featured in RTE Nationwide.
Memberships
Artlink
126 Gallery
Member of VAI
Other Relevant Info
2017 Awarded Graduate Solo Show from The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo.
2017 Longlisted RDS Visual Art Awards.
2016 Awarded Highest Grade in BA Fine Art Degree.
2016 Longlisted RDS Visual Art Awards.
2016 Intervarsity’s Longboard Surfing Champion.
2013 Commissioned by Bundoran Tidy Towns to create 50ft long mural on main street Bundoran.
2012 – Present One of 100 artists who are annually commissioned to paint sculptures in aid of Jack and Jill Children’s Charity.
2011 – Present Artist in residence for Sea Sessions Surf and Music Festival in Bundoran Co. Donegal.
2006 – Present Commissioned to make prizes for Irelands longest running surf contest, The Rossnowlagh Intercounties.