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50 John Shinnors (b.1950) STRAWBOY 3 (2004)signed lower right
oil on canvas
40.5 x 40.5cm (16 x 16in)
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Taylor Galleries, Dublin (label verso);
€8,000-12,000 (£6,956-10,434)
John Shinnors was born in Limerick in 1950 and studied at the Limerick School of Art and Design. He has exhibited nationally
and internationally since the 1980’s with the Taylor Gallery, Dublin as his principal gallery. He is a member of Aosdána and is
involved in the promotion of the arts through the Shinnors Scholarship and the Shinnors Drawing Award. Shinnors is represented
in many private and public collections and was the subject of the RTE 1 documentary “Split Image John Shinnors”.
Shinnors paints reoccurring themes and this allows him to paint portraits with dramatic contrasts of light and dark, these dark and
light tones are a major element in his work with shapes taking precedence over line. The shapes are nearly square in format with
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energy compelling the viewer to be involved.