Wilton Gallery is pleased to present in our Winter Exhibition recent work by Anthony Ivan Wigglesworth at the gallery.
He is a contemporary Irish Artist (1979). Throughout his career he has negotiated between music and painting. Wigglesworth moves effortlessly between the two mediums. His work has been shown internationally from New York to Miami, to Edinburgh to Paris.
The work seeks to capture the ethereal by exploring texture, movement, and effects of spatial illusion. Inspired by music and the Irish landscape; they aim to present a celebration of abstraction in its pure form rather than a representation of the natural world. He is interested in exploring the properties of paint as an artistic device.
His practice involves creating and destroying through layering and manipulating the paint with brushes, palette knives and large scrapers. He first makes an underlayer of paint, then steadily layers surface upon the surface, merging multiple colours and continuously building up various paint dimensions. Through this process, the artist creates dynamic works integrating vivid and bright colours, often employing silver, gold, and pewter paints to create sheens within the pieces themselves.
Wigglesworth, graduated with a M.Phil. Master's in music and media technologies, 1 st class honours 2011 - 2013 from Trinity College Dublin.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo
IRE
2023 Harmonic Fields, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin
2018 On The Surface of It, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin
2014 What Lies Beneath, The Helix, Glasnevin, Dublin
2013 In the Web of The City, Number 10, Ormond Quay, Dublin
2010 Absent Light, Number 10, Ormond Quay, Dublin
2009 Achromatic Elements, Number 10, Ormond Quay, Dublin
2008 Blacklight, Number 10, Ormond Quay, Dublin
Group
USA
2023 Biosphere - Noosphere - Etra Fine Art, Nov 2022 – February 2023, Miami
2022 Water - Ether, Etra Fine Art, December 26 – February 19, 2022, Miami
2019 Abridgment: Donghwa Ode Gallery Winter Exhibition at The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery
Turbulence, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, New York
IRE
2014 New Music Dublin, The National Concert Hall, Dublin
Cork French Film Festival, The Gate Cinema, Cork
Synthesis, The Irish Film Institute, Dublin
2013 I Hear A New World, Luan Gallery, Athlone & Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin
2011 Trinity Arts Society 2nd Annual Exhibition, Oisin Gallery, Dublin
2007 Irish and European artists, The Loft Gallery, Dublin
SELECTED ART FAIRS
UK
2023 Fresh Art Fair, Cheltenham Racecourse, Sol Art Gallery
AAF Battersea, London, Sol Art Gallery
2018 Edinburgh Art Fair, Robart, Edinburgh
2018 AAF Battersea, London, Sol Art Gallery,
2017 SOFA, Chicago, Sol Art Gallery
USA
2022 Art Market, Donghwa Ode Gallery, San Francisco
2020 Art Miami 2020, Donghwa Ode Gallery
2019 Art Miami, Donghwa Ode Gallery, Miami
Art New York, Donghwa Ode Gallery, Pier 94,
2018 Art Wynwood,
IRE
2019 VUE, Sol Art Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2018 VUE, Sol Art Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
