Catherine Creaney (b. 1978) is a Northern Irish self-taught artist working primarily in portraiture in the mediums of oil, pastel and pencil in a realist style. Catherine has exhibited throughout the UK, Ireland and Europe and has won multiple awards for her work including: The ESB Keating Award and Silver Medal for an outstanding artwork at the 185th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition and First Place in the Artist’s Magazine All-Media Online Competition (2014). She won The Drawing Prize and The Rowel Friers Perpetual Trophy at the Royal Ulster Academy’s Annual Exhibition twice. She was shortlisted for the Hennessy Portrait Prize, Dublin (2016). She has been awarded the don niccolo d'ardia caracciolo award at the Royal Hibernian Annual Exhibition, Dublin, The Henri Roche Award and The People's Choice Award at The First International Pastel Exhibition, Rome (2017). Catherine has also won the People's Choice Award at The Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast and the Portrait Prize at the National Open Art, London (2018). She has been commissioned by the Office of Public Works in Ireland to create a portrait of the Former Taoiseach Enda Kenny (2018). Most recently She has been involved in creating a portrait for the Women on Walls Campaign (2019). Being one of six artists commissioned to create a series of portraits of historical female leaders in medicine to be displayed in the Boardroom of the RCSI Dublin.
Grants & Awards
2017 The Portrait Prize, 21st National Open Art Competition,
London
2017 Henry Roche Award
at the First International Pastel Exhibition, Rome
2017 People’s Choice
Award at the First International Pastel Exhibition, Rome
2017 People’s Choice
Award at the Royal Ulster Academy’s 136th Annual Exhibition, Belfast
2017 The Don Niccolo
d'Ardia Caracciolo medal and award at the 187th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual
Exhibition, Dublin
2015 The ESB Keating
Award and Silver Medal for an outstanding art work at the 185th Royal Hibernian
Academy Annual Exhibition
2014 First Place in the
2014 Artist’s Magazine All-Media Online Competition
2014 Drawing Prize
sponsored by the Tom Caldwell Installations at the Royal Ulster Academy’s 133rd
Annual Exhibition
2014 The Rowel Friers
Perpetual Trophy sponsored by Bewley’s Ltd at the
Royal Ulster Academy’s
133rd Annual Exhibition
2011 The drawing Prize
sponsored by the Tom Caldwell Gallery at the Royal Ulster Academy’s 130th
Annual Exhibition
2011 The Rowel Friers
Perpetual Trophy sponsored by Bewley’s Ltd at the Royal Ulster Academy’s 130th
Annual Exhibition
Selected Group
exhibitions
2019 The Royal Ulster Academy 138th
Annual Exhibition, The Ulster Museum, Belfast
2019
Painting Today, MEAM, Barcelona
2019
Observe, Rehs Conyemporary, New York
2019
20 Years in 20 x 20”, MEAM, Barcelona
2019
The Royal Hibernian Academy 189th Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2018 The Royal Ulster Academy 137th
Annual Exhibition, The Ulster Museum, Belfast
2018 ModPortrait 2017, Pablo Serrano Art Museum,
Zaragoza and MEAM, Barcelona
2018 Derwent Art Prize, Mall
Galleries, London
2017 First
International Pastel Exhibition, Rome
2017 The Royal
Ulster Academy’s 136th Annual Exhibition, The Ulster Museum, Belfast
2017 21st National
Open Art Competition, London
2017 Royal Hibernian
Academy 187th Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2016 The Hennessy
Portrait Prize, National Gallery Ireland, Dublin
2015 Edinburgh Art
Fair, Edinburgh
2015 Semblance,
Gormley’s Fine Art, Belfast, Dublin
2015 Royal Hibernian
Academy 185th Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2014 Trowbridge Arts
Festival 2014, Trowbridge Arts, Trowbridge
2014 The Royal
Ulster Academy 133rd Annual Exhibition, The Ulster Museum, Belfast
2014 Derwent Art
Prize, Mall Galleries, London
2014 Royal Hibernian
Academy 184th Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2011 The Royal
Ulster Academy’s 130th Annual Exhibition, The Ulster Museum, Belfast
2008 The Royal
Ulster Academy’s 127th Annual Exhibition, The Titanic Quarters, Belfast
2006 The Royal
Ulster Academy’s 125th Annual Exhibition, Ormeau Baths,
Belfast
Media &
Publications
INPA 7 (International
painting annual 7), 2017
Art and Freedom XI -
Artlibre, 2017
Strokes Of Genius 8:
Expressive Texture (The Best of Drawing), 2016
Artist’s Magazine
All-Media Competition, July/August edition of The Artist's
Magazine, 2015
Revealing Expressions –
Realistic art by Catherine Creaney, BHL- Bald Hiker Life, 2015
Collections
The Office of Public Works, Dublin, Ireland
MEAM, Barcelona, Spain
Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland
