Reality is Overrated
Sant Carles
Born in Dublin, in 1962 and adopted and reared in Killybegs, a remote fishing town on the northwest coast of Ireland. Sharkey has lived in London, New York and Ibiza and is now based in both Ireland and Spain. The self-taught and highly-acclaimed artist is one of Ireland’s most successful and thought-provoking artists. A full-time artist for the last 14 years, Sharkey was formerly a fisherman and a television presenter in Ireland and the UK, the artist’s vividly colourful and boldly expressive paintings and sculptures are sought-after by collectors worldwide. Sharkey has had a string of sellout exhibitions over the last few years, including ‘Alchemy’, his premier show at his Dublin gallery which sold out within 48 hours in Spring 2006 and his ‘Dreamscapes’ showing in Summer 2005 with Irish art ‘giants’, the late Tony O’ Malley, Louie Le Brocquy and William Crozier. |
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