gordon gallery
contemporary fine art
FRAMING
SERVICES
1927 Born Belfast
National College of Art, Dublin
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1951 Donegall Place Gallery, Belfast
1955 British Council, Glasgow
1956 Belfast Museum and Art Gallery (now Ulster Museum)
1962 CEMA Gallery, Belfast
1964 New Gallery, Belfast
New Vision Centre Gallery, London
1966 Ritchie Hendricks Gallery, Dublin
1968 David Hendricks Gallery, Dublin
1969 Arts Council Gallery, Belfast and Brooke Park Gallery, Derry
1973 David Hendricks Gallery, Dublin
1974 Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast
1977 David Hendricks Gallery, Dublin
1982 Deborah Brown: Mid Career Retrospective. Selection of works completed between 1947 and 1982, Ulster Museum, Belfast;
Orchard Gallery, Derry; Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
David Hendricks Gallery, Dublin
1984 The Gordon Gallery, Derry
1987 Solomon Gallery, Dublin
1989 Shambles Gallery, Hillsborough
1990 Ardhowen Theatre, Enniskillen
1995 Mitchell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1996 Shambles Gallery, Hillsborough
2002 Cavanacor Gallery, Lifford, Co. Donegal
2002 ‘Cast in Nature’, Waterfront Hall, Belfast
GROUP SHOWS
1948 Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Ulster Academy, Belfast
1949 Society of Women Artists, London
Ulster Academy, Belfast
1951 Royal Society of British Artists, London
1953 Victor Waddington Gallery, Dublin
Travelling CEMA Exhibition, Bolton Art Gallery; Oldham Art Gallery and the Welsh National Library, Aberystwyth
1954 Royal Ulster Academy, Spring Exhibition
Mayfair Art Gallery, Bruton Street, London
1959 New Vision Centre gallery, London
Ulster Society of Women Artists
Royal Ulster Academy
1960 New Vision Centre Gallery, London
Free Painters Group, Walker gallery, London
Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, CEMA Art Gallery, Belfast
Ulster Society of Women Artists (Dublin Exhibition)
1961 Avgarde Gallery, Manchester
Women’s International Art Club, exhibition in Paris
Irish Exhibition of Living Art, and frequently thereafter until 1976
1961-2 Women’s International Art Club, Annual Exhibition, London
1962 Free Painters Group, London and Hove
Open Painting exhibition, CEMA Gallery, Belfast
1964 New Vision Centre Gallery, London
1964-65 Women’s International Art Club, London and a selection shown in Belfast
1965 Four Ulster Painters, Arnolfini Gallery, Oxford
1966 Women’s International Art Club, London
New Charing Cross Gallery, Glasgow, Eight North of Ireland Painters, sponsored by the Scottish Committee of the Arts Council of GB
Exhibition of Modern Irish Art on loan from the Great Southern Hotels of Ireland sponsored by the Arts Council (An Chomhairle Ealaíon)
An Oireachtas, Dublin
Modern Irish Paintings, Ulster Museum
Open Painting Exhibition, Arts Council of Northern Ireland
1967 Women’s International Art Club Exhibition, Galerie Greuze, Paris
1968 Ulster Painting 68, Arts Council of Northern Ireland
1969 Contemporary Irish Painting, Park Square Gallery, Leeds
Council of Irish tradition, exhibition of Ulster Artists, Queen’s University, Belfast
1969-71 Modern Irish painting, Arts Council (An Chomhairle Ealaíon) exhibition touring in Europe
1970 David Hendricks Gallery, Dublin
Irish Exhibition of Living Art
1971 Art Spectrum, Ulster
David Hendricks Gallery, Dublin
Irish Imagination, ROSC 71, shown in Dublin, Boston, Philadelphia & Washington
1972 Gordon Lambert Collection, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin and Ulster Museum, Belfast
1973 Irish Exhibition of Living Art
International Exhibition, Cagnes sur Mer (chosen with Theo McNab to represent Ireland)
Artist’s Choice, Ulster Museum
1974 Paintings from the collection of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Dublin, Cork and Limerick presented by the Arts Council of Ireland
(An Chomhairle Ealaíon)
Irish Artists, David Hendricks Gallery, Dublin
Irish Directions of the Seventies, USA Touring Exhibition
Bank of Ireland, Dublin
1975 New University of Ulster, Coleraine
Irish Exhibition of Living Art
1976 Irish Exhibition of Living Art
1980 A Sense of Ireland - The International Connection, Round House Gallery, London
1983 Limerick Exhibition of Visual Arts (EVA), the Past Prize winners also shown in Belfast and Dublin
1984 ROSC, Guinness Hop Store Gallery, Dublin
David Hendricks Memorial Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast and Douglas Hide Gallery, Dublin
1985 Nine Irish Artists from ROSC, Armstrong Gallery, New York
The Inaugural Exhibition, Shambles Gallery, Hillsborough
1987 Irish Women Artists, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
1990 Contemporary Artists from Ireland, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London
Arts Council of Ireland (An Chomhairle Ealaíon) Touring Exhibition shown in Helsinki, Göteborg, Stockholm, Biefeld, Bonn, Saarbrücken,
Copenhagen, London and Leeds
1992 Gallery Artists, Solomon Gallery, Dublin
1993 Small Sculpture, Solomon Gallery, Dublin
1994-2002 Boyle Festival Exhibitions held biennially
1996 Solomon Gallery, Dublin
1999 Frederick Gallery, Dublin
2000 Air Rianta, ‘Gateway to Art’, Dublin
Deborah Brown