Jim Savage was born in Manchester 1950. He studied at the Manchester School of Art and at the Slade School of Art London. His work is primarily concerned with drawing.
He moved to Ireland in 1982. He lives in Co. Cork and is married to the sculptor Sarah O’Flaherty.

Exhibitions

British Drawing, 1982 Hayward Gallery, London and
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.

The London Group, Camden Arts Centre, London.

Two Painters, a joint show with the painter David Redfern at the Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

Living Arts 1985,1986, Dublin.

Independents 1986, Dublin.

Recent Work : 1988  joint exhibition with the printmaker Jim Sheehy at the Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick. 

Art Network 1992,1995, Holland, Belgium and Russia.

New Work : 1993 joint exhibition with the painter Jill Denis and Jim Sheehy at the Vangard Gallery, Cork.

Vangard Gallery at Sheen Falls 1999. 

Terrain : 2000 solo exhibition of landscape drawings at the Vangard Gallery, Cork. 

EVA 1984,1993,1994,1999, 2000, Limerick.

RHA 1996,1997,1998,1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, received RHA Drawing Prize 2004, invited artist 2005.

Line/Exploration, 2002, the Lavit Gallery, Cork; curated by Maria Simonds-Gooding. 

In 2001 with the printmaker David Lilburn, founded Occasional Press.

Organized the exhibition Focus on Drawing at the Limerick City Gallery of Art and at the Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork.

Edited Drawing Texts, (an anthology of writings on drawing by Artists, critics, curators, and historians), published by Occasional Press.

Large drawing purchased by the National Collection of Drawing, Limerick City Gallery of Art.

In 2005 curated From Landscape, an exhibition of large-scale drawings by 29 contemporary artists working in Ireland, touring throughout 2005/2006 to The Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray; Limerick City Gallery of Art, Galway Arts Centre and the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork.

Organized (for Cork 2005: European Capital of Culture) an exhibition of drawings by John Berger and Marisa Camino, at the Vangard Gallery, Cork and edited Berger On Drawing, an anthology of John Berger’s writings on drawing, published by Occasional Press, 2005.

Most Recent Publications

Some Thoughts On Getting From A To B: an interview with the Irish sculptor Tom Fitzgerald in the artist’s monograph The Ministry of Dust, (Gandon Editions 2004); and Intelligent Missiles: essay in Tom Fitzgerald: The Ministry of Dust Drawings, (Gandon Editions 2004).

 

David Lilburn is an artist, whose current work predominantly involves the graphic processes of drawing and printmaking. He studied history and political science at Trinity College Dublin, (MA); lithography at the Scuole D’Arte, Urbino and art and design at Limerick School of Art and Design, (Dip. AD), where he taught for a number of years.

His recent commissions include:

In Medias Res, for the James Joyce Ulysses Exhibition, National Library of Ireland, 2004.

The Courthouse Maps, and “Frieze”, two commissions for Limerick County Council, 2002/2003.

Coastline, for the Irish Pavilion, “Expo”, Hamburg, 2000.

A Map for City Hall, Millennium Project 2000, Dublin Corporation.

At IMPACT 3 in Cape Town he presented Urbs Antiqua Fuit Studisque Asperrima in Causa Belli - (Re)Presenting the City (in Print).

His recent printmaking awards include:

First prize, ‘Impressions’, open print award, Galway, Ireland, 2004.

“Michael Byrne Award for Printmakers”, administered by the Arts Council of Ireland, 2002.

“Mary Farl Powers Printmaking Award”, 2000, administered by the Arts Council of Ireland, 2001.

First prize, Second Limerick Mini-Print Exhibition, 2000.

Lilburn has works in numerous public collections, including the Office of Public Works, Ireland; the University of Limerick; the National Self-Portrait Collection; the National Collection of Artists Books, NCAD; the National Collection of Contemporary Drawing, LCGA; the Palazzo della Penna, Perugia; the National University of Ireland, Cork; the Dublin Corporation; AIB; Guinness; MIC, Limerick; the Limerick Corporation; the Shannon Development Company; and the Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, Ireland.