gordon gallery
contemporary fine art
FRAMING
SERVICES
Born Lurgan, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland
1961-65 Belfast College of Art,
1965-67 Brighton College of Art
1967-70 Teaching at Goldsmiths School of Art, London
1973-76 Teaching at Ravensbourne College of Art, London
1977-80 Arts Council of Northern Ireland Printmaker in Residence Fellowship at Belfast Print Workshop
1980-2002 Director of Belfast Print Workshop
1977 - Living and working in Belfast
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 Wellspring Gallery, Tralee
2002 Cavehill Gallery, Belfast
1991 Kerlin Gallery, Belfast
1988 Kerlin Gallery, Belfast
1985 Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast
1976 Caldwell Gallery, Belfast
1975 Queen’s University Senior Common Room, Belfast
Upper Street Gallery, London
1973 Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
Burleighfield House Gallery, Loudwater, Bucks
1972 The Room Gallery, Greenwich, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 ‘’Printmakers 2006’, gordon gallery, Derry
2005 ‘Four Now’, Gluksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
‘Across Boundaries’, Dept. Finance & Personnel / Office of Public Works touring exhibition, Ireland
Small Contemporary Works, Carnegie Centre, Larne, Co. Antrim
Inaugural Group Show, gordon gallery, Derry
2004 Royal Ulster Academy, Ulster Museum, Belfast
‘Reference’, Exhibition, Cavanacor Gallery, Lifford, Co. Donegal
2003 ‘Impressions’, Office of Public Works Print Collection touring exhibition, various centres, Ireland
‘Public Eye’, Fifty Years of Arts Council Collection
City Art Gallery, Edinburgh
‘Small Works’, St. Patrick Centre, Downpatrick
‘A Sense of Place’, Belfast Printmakers, Dyehouse Gallery, Waterford
2002 ‘Public Eye’, Fifty Years of Arts Council Collection
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon
‘The Infernal Method’, GMIT Campus, Galway
‘The Holy Show’, Chester Beattie Gallery’ Touring Ireland, Sweden & USA
Royal Hibernian Academy Exhibition, Gallaher Gallery, Dublin
Royal Ulster Academy, Ulster Museum, Belfast
2001 Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition, Ashford Gallery, Dublin
Group Exhibition, Cavehill Gallery, Belfast
2000 Group Exhibition, Cavehill Gallery, Belfast
‘Matisse’s Armchair’, Ballance House, Glenavy
‘North & South’’, Lemon Street Gallery, Dublin
1999 Galerie Verin fur Original-Radierung, Munich, Germany
Gasteig Arts Centre, Munich, Germany
Newry & Mourne Arts Centre, Newry
1998 Gray’s Museum, Strabane, Co. Tyrone
Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart
1996 ‘Temple Bar International Print Exhibition’, Temple Bar Studios Gallery, Dublin
‘Altered States’’, An Chomhairle Ealaion touring exhibition
1995 St. John’s Art Centre, Listowell, Co. Kerry
Northern Irish Printmakers, An Chomhairle Ealaion, Dublin
Department of Art, Culture & Gaeltacht, Dublin
Downpatrick Arts Centre, Downpatrick, Co. Down
1992-95 Various Group Exhibitions
1992 ‘Contemporary Graphic Art’, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
1991 Invited Artist, Banquet Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery, Dublin
‘1/30’ Print Exhibition, Arts Council touring exhibition, Ireland
‘Northern Ireland Printmaking’’, N.Y. University, Binghampton, New York
‘Irish Landscape’, Narrow Water Castle Gallery, Warrenpoint
Northern Ireland Print Workshops Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
1987 Royal Ulster Academy (Conor Prize-Winner), Ulster Museum, Belfast
1986 ‘The Sea’, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Various group shows
On The Wall gallery, Belfast
1985 ‘Ten Years On’, Thumb Gallery, London
1983 Two Person Show, Thumb gallery, London
1982 ‘Art and the Sea’, I.C.A. Gallery, London
1981 Invited Artist, 1st Triennale Europea Dell’incisione
Two Person Show, Key’s Gallery, Derry
‘Summer reflections’, Thumb Gallery, London
1980 ‘The Corner of my Eye’, 4 Print-Poems by James Allen and Michael Longley, Ulster Museum, Belfast
Two Person Show, Queen’s University Senior Staff Common Room, Belfast
1979 Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Dublin
Prints at Orchard Gallery, Derry
Listowell Graphics, Listowell, Co. Kerry
1978 Prints at Air Gallery, London
Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast
‘Realism Now’, An Chomhairle Ealaion Touring Exhibition
17 British printmakers, Alternative Centre for International Arts, New York
Listowell Graphics, Listowell, Co. Kerry
1977 5 Landscape Painters, Caldwell Gallery, Belfast
‘Four Northern Ireland Printmakers’, Glasgow Print Workshop, Glasgow
‘Oireachtas’, Exhibition, Dublin
8 Northern Ireland Artists, Third Eye Gallery, Glasgow’ Art in Ulster 1957-77’, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
‘Double Issue Exhibition’, Thumb Gallery, London
1976 Invited Artist, Biella International Print Biennale, Italy
’30 Contemporary Printmakers’, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1975 Prints at Sunderland Arts Centre
1974 Two Person Show, Upper Street Gallery, London
Barclay Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
New British Printmakers, Brooklyn Museum, New York
1973 Invited Artist, Biella International Print Biennale, Italy
Four Printmakers, DM Gallery, London
1972 Prints at Serpentine Gallery, London
Prints in ‘Fortresses to Follies’ show, Oxford gallery, Oxford
Prints at Warwick University, Warwick
COMMISSIONS
Etched copper mural for Dungannon Public Library
Northern Ireland Housing Executive
Narrow Water Castle Gallery, Warrenpoint
Various hotels
Hospitals by Artcare
‘Altered Status’, An Chomhairle Ealaion, Dublin
COLLECTIONS
Arts Council of Great Britain
Armagh County Museum
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
An Chomhairle Ealaion, Dublin
Belfast education and Library Board
Government Art Collection
Intel, Dublin
Lloyds Bank
Northern Bank
National Self-Portrait Collection, Limerick University
Office of Public Works, Dublin
Queen’s University of Belfast
Telfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia, USA
Ulster Television
Ulster Museum
Various private collections
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Painting and Sculpture by Kenneth Jaimson in ‘’Causeway, the Arts in Ulster’ (Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Gill
and Macmillan, Dublin 1971)
‘James Allen’, by Pat Gilmore in Arts Review, 1973
‘Art in Ulster II’, by Mike Catto (Blackstaff Press 1977)
‘Thinking Long’, by Liam Kelly (Publisher - Gandon Editions, Kinsale, 1996)
James Allen