Richard Malone
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| Richard Malone | |
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| Born | Wexford, Ireland |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Irish |
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Overview[edit]
Richard Malone is an Irish artist and designer from Wexford, Ireland.
Malone was born and grew up in Wexford Ireland. Malone has cited their working class upbringing and Irish identity as informative and important in their work. Malone previously worked with his father on building sites and during their initial studies in art at Waterford College of Further Education .
Malone's creative practice includes sculpture, installation, performance, drawing, costume and garment making. Malone's work often uses distinct and gendered labour practices to explore the ideas of queerness, class, place and otherness.
Malone's essays and letters have been published by British Vogue [1] and Luncheon magazine. In 2022, a series of Malone's poems and self portraits were shown in EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in the exhibition Out in the World: Ireland’s LGBTQ+ Diaspora. [2]
Between 2020 and 2022, Malone curated and showed work alongside several intergenerational Irish artists and craftspeople in the touring exhibition Making and Momentum : In Conversation with Eileen Gray, a travelling exhibition of contemporary visual art. The exhibition celebrates the legacy of modernism in Ireland, and the influence of modern Irish making and indigenous craft worldwide. The show included Ceadogán Rugmakers, Laura Gannon, Mainie Jellett , Mourne Textiles, Nellie Malone, Niamh O'Malley , Richard Malone and Sara Flynn. The exhibition opened in Roquebrune, France in June 2021 alongside the refurbishment of Eileen Gray 's E-1027 Villa, before travelling to the National Museum of Ireland , Dublin where is was opened by Albert II, Prince of Monaco . The exhibition was finally shown in Wexford, Malone and Gray's hometown, at the Wexford County Council's Municipal Buildings. Select work's were auctioned and raised over €170,000 for the continued restoration of Gray's work and the establishment of an artist's prize.[3]
Malone's recent solo shows include the National Gallery of Ireland Dublin, [4] Ormston House Limerick [5] and in summer 2023, Malone's largest sculptural mobile to date was shown in the Central Hall of the Royal Academy in London. [6] The piece is titled poem in the dark about sadness, filíocht faoi bhrón, as an dorchadas
In 2022, Malone was the artist in residence at the National Gallery of Ireland Dublin, responding the gallery's first major showing of Alberto Giacometti in Ireland.[7]
In 2023, Malone was awarded the Golden Fleece Award . Ireland's largest and most prestigious award for contemporary art.[8]
Malone's work is held in some of the world's most important museums and institutions, including the Musuem of Modern Art New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum London and the National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne. Malone's portrait, by artist Howard Tangye is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London .
Malone graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2014, resulting in his graduate collection being bought by Brown Thomas Dublin.
In 2017, Malone's work was included in the Museum of Modern Art's Is Fashion Modern? exhibition and is now part of the museum's permanent collection.[9][10]
In 2019, Malone was a finalist in the LVMH Prize[11] and won the Woolmark Prize in 2020.[12]
In February 2021, it was announced that Malone had been selected as a finalist in the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund 2021.[13]
Malone's garments are made to order only and he is stringently against the system of fashion and mass production. Malone's garments have been worn by Bjork , Róisín Murphy , Lorde , Debbie Harry , Beyoncé and more.
References[edit]
- ↑ https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/open-letter-repeal-the-8th-richard-malone
- ↑ https://epicchq.com/out-in-the-world-ireland-lgbtq-diaspora-artist-announcement/
- ↑ https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/richard-malone-making-and-momentum
- ↑ https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/knot-bind-gesture-bend
- ↑ https://ormstonhouse.com/programme/richard-malone/
- ↑ https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2023
- ↑ https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/giacometti/artist-residence-richard-malone
- ↑ https://www.goldenfleeceaward.com/artists/richard-malone
- ↑ "Richard Malone". Woolmark Prize. Woolmark Prize. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
- ↑ https://www.moma.org/artists/68077#exhibitions
- ↑ Lifshutz, Hannah. "Introducing the 2019 LVMH Prize Semifinalists". Paper Magazine. Paper Magazine. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
- ↑ "RICHARD MALONE AND BODE'S SUSTAINABLE ACHIEVEMENTS IN DESIGN WIN INTERNATIONAL WOOLMARK PRIZE". CR Fashion Book. CR. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
- ↑ Sergison, Darcy. "Richard Malone, Supriya Lele Among Brands Shortlisted for The BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund". Business of Fashion. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
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