Art
The Bang experience is all about great food, great wine and a great atmosphere. The original artwork and rare prints by leading Irish and international artists displayed in Bang add a unique quality to the atmosphere of our restaurant. We are committed to continually developing the Bang collection of fine modern art and are proud to play a small but important role in the promotion of significant artists and their work.
Conor Harrington was born in Cork, Ireland. (Dublin Contemporary 2011)
Conor is perhaps one of the most successful exponents of the unification of street art and fine art. With a penchant for military re-enactments as subject, the presence of a central male figure as a reference to the masculinity of urban culture is a constant theme throughout Conor’s works. The men who feature in Conor’s paintings are typically brooding and representative of inherent stoicism, proving that graffiti doesn’t have to shock to have meaning. Conor did graffiti throughout his teens and then went to art school to study fine art. His work now is a result of both worlds, the indoor silence and the outdoor chaos.
Patrick Scott was born 1921 in Kilbrittain, County Cork.
Patrick Scott originally trained as an architect and did not become a full time artist until 1960. He is best known for his gold paintings, abstracts incorporating geometrical forms in gold leaf against a pale tempura background. His works are distinguished by their purity and sense of calm, reflecting his own interest in Buddhism. He won the Guggenheim Award in 1960, and on July 11 2007 was conferred with the title of Saoi, the highest honour that an Irish artist can receive.
William Crozier was born in Glasgow in 1930.
William Crozler has lived in many areas of the world including London, Dublin, Paris, and southern Spain. His travels proved to be very influential to his development as an artist. In 1991 the Crawford Art Gallery Cork and the Royal Hibernian Academy curated a large retrospective of his work. Crozier’s work can be seen in the national and private collections in the UK and Ireland.
John Cronin was born in Dublin in 1966.
While his work's primary concern is abstract painting in the age of artificial intelligence, the titles of his exhibitions often reflect a desire to add a thematic twist to each new body of work. Cronin has gleaned praise from many quarters most notably from the eminent New York Critic Donald Kuspit, who says - 'he puts the "juice" back into modernist painting, after Greenberg's post-painterly theory squeezed it out.' John Cronin is one of the leading abstract painters working in Ireland today.
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Eamon Coleman was born in Dublin in 1957.
From 1993 to 1995 he was the Chairperson of The Artist Association of Ireland. He also served as a Board member for the Sculptors Society of Ireland. From 1995 to 200 he held the position of President of The European Council of Arts. Until 2004 he was a Bord member of The Buttler Gallery in Kilkenny. Eamon Colman now lives and works in County Kilkenny. He lives with his partner Irish artist Pauline O'Connell and their son Reuben. He is one of Ireland's most popular and critically acclaimed contemporary painters.
David Godbold was born in Norwich in 1961.
Godbold's work concentrated on the critical examination of the production, circulation and reception of visual imagery in both 'high' and 'low' culture. He works in a variety of media, but is best known for drawings and texts overlaid onto found materials which produces witty, irreverent and iconoclastic commentaries on a range of topics. Godbold has exhibited widely and is represented in Trinity College and the Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
Taffina Flood was born in Dublin in 1967.
She has exhibited both paintings and prints in solo and group exhibitions in Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Sweden and the USA. Taffina was educated at The National College of Art and Design in Dublin. She received BA in Fine Art (Painting) In 1991 and an MA in Fine Art ( Painting and Printmaking) in 1998. She has a studio in Dublin and also lectures at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.
Barbra Rea was born in Falkirk in 1943
Rae’s work has been included in many solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Her first solo show was held in 1967 at the New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh. In 1994 and 1999, she won tapestry commissions for The Festival Theatre, Edinburgh and for the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, respectively. Rae’s work is included in many private collections in Britain, Europe and the USA, as well as in many public and corporate collections.
Maria Simonds Gooding ; Maria Simonds-Gooding has been identified as one of Ireland's foremost painters and printmakers to have emerged since the Sixties. Her work, which has been exhibited internationally, is represented in many public and private collections, including those of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
James O Nolan was born in Dublin in 1929. ,
He specialises in landscape and figurative painting and has completed a number of self-portraits and portrait commissions. His self-portrait, “The Singapore Hat” was chosen to represent Ireland in the prestigious “Master Painters of the 20th Century” Self-Portrait Collection in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Hisvision is that of the Poet Painter. He paints from nature and iscontent to be identified with the Barbizon school of plein-airartists
Carmel Benson was born in Wexford in 1950.
Combining figurative and abstract elements, her work is drawn from themes of childhood and nature. Through a strong use of colour, light and the simplification of perspective, it seeks to explore the integration or isolation of the individual in space/time. Elements from the established domain of Art are sometimes integrated with the personal, bringing an aspect of the collective to this individual vision. Her work is included in many public and private collections including: the Irish Contemporary Art Society, Bank of Ireland, AIB and the Arts Councils of Ireland. She now lives in Co. Wicklow where she works as a full time artist.
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