List of Northern Irish artists
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A

  • Alan Duke (artist) (1952 -
  • James Allen (1941- )
  • Arthur Armstrong
    Arthur Armstrong (painter)
    Arthur Armstrong was a painter from Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, who often worked in a Cubist style and produced landscape and still-life works....

     (1924–1996)

B

  • Roy Burns (1954- )
  • Brian Ballard (1943- )
  • James Bingham
    James Bingham
    James 'Jimmy' Bingham , was a Belfast-based artist. He spent thirty years in London working as a signwriter with his brother. In 1967 he returned to Belfast where he met fellow Belfast artist Daniel O'Neill...

     (1925-)
  • Basil Blackshaw
    Basil Blackshaw
    -Life:Born in Glengormley, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and brought up in Boardmills, County Down, Blackshaw attended Methodist College Belfast and studied at Belfast College of Art...

     (1932- )
  • Bogside Artists
    Bogside Artists
    The Bogside Artists are a trio of mural painters from Derry, Northern Ireland, consisting of Tom Kelly, his brother William Kelly, and Kevin Hasson...

  • Terry Bradley
    Terry Bradley
    Terry Bradley is an artist from Northern Ireland.His early life was spent growing up just off the notorious Shankill Road where his mother tried to keep him inside and away from the “Troubles” outside their front door...

     (1965-)
  • Charles Braithwaite (1876–1941)
  • Muriel Brandt
    Muriel Brandt
    Muriel Brandt was an Irish artist. She studied at the Belfast College of Art and at the Royal College of Art in London, where she was elected Associate Royal College of Art in 1937...

     (1909–1981)
  • Anto Brennan
  • Deborah Brown
    Deborah Brown
    Deborah Brown is an acclaimed Northern Irish sculptor. She is well known in Ireland for her pioneering exploration of the medium of fibre glass in the 1960s and has established herself as one of the country’s leading sculptors, achieving extensive international acclaim...

     (1927- )
  • Lawson Burch (1937–1999)
  • William H. Burns (1924–1995)
  • William J. Burrows
  • John Byrne
    John Byrne (Irish artist)
    John Byrne is an artist born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, now living in Dublin. He went to art college in Belfast, then to the Slade School of Art in London in the mid-1980s...

  • James D. Baker (1989- )

C

  • Arthur M. Campbell (1909–1994)
  • John P. Campbell (1883–1962)
  • John Carey (1861–1943)
  • Joseph W. Carey
    Joseph W. Carey
    Joseph William Carey was an Irish artist.Joseph was the son of the Rev. J. W. Carey, a Moravian Minister at Kilwarlin Moravian Church, Kilwarlin, County Down, Ireland. He trained as an illustrator with Marcus Ward & Co., publishers...

     (1859–1937)
  • Tom Carr (1909–1999)
  • Sydney Mary Christen (1847–1923)
  • Lorraine Christie (1967- )
  • Margaret Clarke (1888–1961)
  • W. H. Conn
    W. H. Conn
    William H. Conn was an Irish cartoonist, illustrator, watercolourist and poster artist. The son of a lithographer, he was educated at the Ulster Provincial School, now Friends' School, Lisburn...

     (1895–1973)
  • William Conor
    William Conor
    William Conor OBE was a Belfast, Northern Ireland born artist.Celebrated for his warm and sympathetic portrayals of working-class life in Ulster, William Conor studied at the Government School of Design in Belfast in the 1890s...

     (1881–1968)
  • Kathleen Cooke (1908–1978)
  • Emily D. Corry (1873–1942)
  • Sam Coulter (1925- )
  • William A. Coulter
    William A. Coulter
    William A. Coulter, born William Alexander Coulter, was an American painter of marine subjects. Coulter was a native of Glenariff, County Antrim, in what is today Northern Ireland. He became an apprentice seaman at the age of 13, and after seven years at sea, came to settle in San Francisco in 1869...

     (1849–1936)
  • James Humbert Craig
    James Humbert Craig
    James Humbert Craig was an Irish painter.Craig was born in Belfast to Alexander Craig, a tea merchant, and a Swiss mother, Marie Metzenen, from a family with a painting tradition. He was raised in County Down and maintained a studio at Cushendun, County Antrim...

     (1877–1944)
  • Ebenezer Crawford (1830–1874)
  • David Crone (1937- )
  • Oswald H. Cunningham (1883–1935)

D

  • Duke Alan (artist) 1952 -
  • Colin Davidson (1968- )
  • Diarmuid Delargy (1958- )
  • Gerard Dillon (1916–1971)
  • Willie Doherty
    Willie Doherty
    Willie Doherty is an artist, who has mainly worked in photography and video. He has twice been a Turner Prize nominee.-Life and work:...

     (1959- )
  • Micky Donnelly (1952- )
  • Rita Duffy (1959- )
  • Caroline Dilworth (Equestrian Artist) (1971 - )

F

  • Patricia Faulkner (1946- )
  • Richard Faulkner (1917–1988)
  • Brian Ferran (1940- )
  • T.P. Flanagan (1929- )
  • Norman Fraser (1943- )
  • Hugh Frazer
    Hugh Frazer (artist)
    Hugh Frazer was an Irish landscape and genre painter.Frazer was born in Dromore, County Down, enrolled in the Dublin Society in 1812 and exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1826 through 1864. Granted membership at the RHA in 1837 he would be a professor there from 1839 to 1853...

  • Ian Friers (1909–1975)
  • Rowel Friers
    Rowel Friers
    Douglas Carson Rowel Boyd Friers, born Belfast, 13 April 1920, died Holywood, County Down, 21 September 1998, was a cartoonist, illustrator, painter and lithographer....

     (1920–1998)
  • Julian Friers (1956- )
  • William H. Fry (1883–1962)

G

  • Aidan Gaffney
  • Gemma Gallagher (1987- )
  • Dennis Gallery
  • George Gault (1916–2001 )
  • Michael Gemmell (1950- )
  • John Gillan (1985- )
  • George K. Gillespie (1924–1995)
  • Arthur Gilmer (1882–1929)
  • Carol Gilmore (1953- )
  • Graham Gingles
  • William St. John Glenn "Bill Glenn" (1904–1974)
  • W.R. Gordon (1872–1955)
  • William Crampton Gore
    William Crampton Gore
    William Crampton Gore RHA was an Irish painter.The son of an army officer from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Gore studied medicine at TCD, graduating in 1897 and practising until 1901. An intervening period of some months in 1898 was spent studying art under Henry Tonks at the Slade School,...

     (1871–1946)
  • Theo J. Gracey (1895–1959)
  • C. Edward Gribbon (1898–1939)

H

  • Siobhán Hapaska (1963- )
  • Maurice Harron
    Maurice Harron
    Maurice Harron is a sculptor, born in 1946 in Derry, Northern Ireland, where he grew up. He studied sculpture at the Ulster College of Art and Design in Belfast....

     (1946- )
  • Sarah Cecilia Harrison
    Sarah Cecilia Harrison
    Sarah Cecilia Harrison was an Irish artist and the first woman to serve on Dublin City Council.Harrison, who went by the name Cecilia, was born to an affluent family in Holywood, County Down. She was the great grand-niece of Henry Joy McCracken. When she was 10 her father died and the family...

     (1863–1941)
  • Henry P. Haslett (1906–1968)
  • Wilfred J. Haughton (1921–1999)
  • Olive Henry (1902–1989)
  • Paul Henry
    Paul Henry (painter)
    Paul Henry was a Northern Irish artist noted for depicting the west of Ireland landscape with a spare post-impressionist style....

     (1876–1958)
  • Raymond Henshaw (1963 - )
  • Martin Heron
    Martin Heron
    Martin Heron is a sculptor from Northern Ireland working with steel.-Notable commissions:* Where dreams go, Strabane District Council, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, 2007-08* Handstanding, Ipswich Borough Council, Ravenswood, Ipswich, 2006...

  • Rowland Hill (1915–1979)
  • Seán Hillen
    Seán Hillen
    Seán Hillen is an artist whose work includes collages and the creative use of photographs.-Early life:Hillen was raised in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland. He studied at the Belfast College of Art...

     (1961- )
  • Allan Hughes (1974- )
  • David Gordon Hughes (1957- )
  • Tim Humphries (1973- )
  • Mercy Hunter (1910–1989)
  • Robert Hunter (fl.
    Floruit
    Floruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...

     1752-1803)

J

  • Ned Jackson Smyth
  • Roy Johnston (1936- )
  • Anne P. Jury (1907–1995)

K

  • George MacD Kane (1889–1954)
  • John Kindness
    John Kindness
    John Kindness is an Irish multi-media artist whose work often contrasts material, image and reference in an unusual and humorous way. He attended the Belfast College of Art and now lives and works in Dublin....

     (1951- )
  • Gareth Knowles
  • Margaret Knowles (1869–1933)
  • G. Moutray Kyle (1865–1950)
  • F.J.Kerr (1989-)

L

  • Charles Lamb (1893–1964)
  • John Lavery
    John Lavery
    Sir John Lavery was an Irish painter best known for his portraits.Belfast-born John Lavery attended the Haldane Academy, in Glasgow, in the 1870s and the Académie Julian in Paris in the early 1880s. He returned to Glasgow and was associated with the Glasgow School...

     (1856–1941)
  • H.R. Lilley (1886–1970)
  • John Long
    John Long (artist)
    John Long is an artist whose work has been exhibited in Dublin and London, as well as in the United States. He is a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy, and a widely-sought lecturer and teacher...

     (1964- )
  • John Luke
    John Luke (artist)
    John Luke was an Irish artist. He was born in Belfast at 4 Lewis Street. The fifth of seven sons and one daughter of James Luke and his wife Sarah, originally from Ahoghill. He attended the Hillman Street National School and in 1920 went to work at the York Street Flax Spinning Company...

     (1906–1975)
  • Roy Lyndsay (1945- )

M

  • Anthony Morgan (1959- )
  • Jim Manley
    Jim Manley
    Jim Manley is an artist, born on 17 January 1934, in St Helens, Lancashire, England. He has lived in Killough, County Down, Northern Ireland since 1971...

     (1934- )
  • William MacBride (1880–1962)
  • Gladys Maccabe
    Gladys Maccabe (artist)
    -Early life:Gladys Maccabe was born in Randalstown, County Antrim. Her mother Elizabeth was a designer in the linen business, and her father George Chalmers, a Scot, was a former army officer and artist specialising in calligraphy and illumination...

     (1918- )
  • Somhairle MacCana (1901–1975)
  • George MacCann (1909–1967)
  • James MacIntyre (1926- )
  • W.G. MacKenzie (1857–1924)
  • Kathleen I. Mackie (1899–1996)
  • Sine MacKinnon (1901–1996)
  • Richard Maguire (1895–1965)
  • Padraig Marrinan
    Padraig Marrinan
    Padraig Marrinan was an Irish painter. Also known as PH Marrinan or Patrick H Marrinan, he was born in Belfast, Ireland. He contracted poliomyelitis at the age of five years and for several years, he could not walk...

     (1906–1973)
  • Violet McAdoo (1896–1961)
  • Frank J. McAleenan (1890–1968)
  • Charles McAuley
    Charles McAuley
    Charles McAuley was an Irish painter. He was born in Gruig, Glenann, Ireland, one of the nine Glens of Antrim, now in Northern Ireland, on March 15, 1910. Despite being from a small rural village, Charles pursued painting from an early age, in an area when farming was one of the main sources of...

     (1910–1999)
  • Denis McBride (1939- )
  • Samuel McCloy
    Samuel McCloy
    Samuel McCloy was an Irish painter.Born in Lisburn, Ireland, McCloy studied at Belfast's School of Design while serving an apprenticeship in engraving. He then spent a year at the Central School, Somerset House, London before being appointed Master of the Waterford School of Art. He returned to...

     (1831–1904)
  • W.J. McClughin (1900–1971)
  • A.D. McCormick (1860–1943)
  • William McDade (1875–1947)
  • Conor McFeely  (1958- )
  • Kieran McGoran (1932–1990)
  • Hugh McGrory  (1970- )
  • Norah McGuinness
    Norah McGuinness
    Norah McGuinness was an Irish painter and illustrator.Norah McGuinness trained at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and at Chelsea Polytechnic in London before spending the 1920s working in Dublin as a book illustrator and stage designer...

     (1901–1980)
  • Frank McKelvey
    Frank McKelvey
    Frank McKelvey was an Irish painter from Belfast.McKelvey was born in 1895 in Belfast, the son of a painter and decorator. He attended the Belfast School of Art and won the "Sir Charles Brett" prize for figure drawing there in 1912...

     (1895–1974)
  • Paula McKinney  (1966- )
  • W.J.W. McLernon (1867–1945)
  • Mark L McMeekin (1975- )
  • Donald McPherson (1874–1935)
  • F. E. McWilliam
    F. E. McWilliam
    F.E. McWilliam , was a British surrealist sculptor, born in Banbridge, County Down. He worked in stone, wood and bronze chiefly.-Biography:...

     (1909–1989)
  • Catherine McWilliams (1940- )
  • Joseph McWilliams (1938- )
  • Simon McWilliams (1970- )
  • William H. Megahey (1882–1934)
  • Steven Meredith (1971- )
  • Colin Middleton
    Colin Middleton
    Colin Middleton MBE was an Irish artist and surrealist.Middleton was born in 1910 in Belfast. He trained at Belfast College of Art, he was heavily influenced by the work of Vincent van Gogh. He regarded himself as the only surrealist working in Ireland in the 1930s.His work first appeared at the...

     (1910–1983)
  • John Middleton (1945–1981)
  • P.H. Miller (1845–1928)
  • William Miller
  • Crawford Mitchell (1908–1976)
  • R. Boyd Morrison (1896–1969)
  • Albert Morrow
    Albert Morrow
    Albert George Morrow was an illustrator, poster designer and cartoonist. He was the son of a painter and decorator from Clifton Street, west Belfast...

     (1863–1927)
  • Edwin A. Morrow (1877–1952)
  • George Morrow
    George Morrow (illustrator)
    George Morrow was a cartoonist and book illustrator. He was the son of a painter and decorator from Clifton Street in west Belfast...

     (1869–1955)
  • Jack Morrow
    Jack Morrow
    John Cassell Morrow was a political cartoonist, illustrator and landscape painter. He was the son of a painter and decorator from Clifton Street, west Belfast...

     (1872–1926)
  • Edward J Morton (1956- )
  • Carolyn Mulholland (1944- )
  • Frank Murphy (1925–1979)

O

  • Helen O'Hara (1846–1920)
  • Ailbhe O'Monachain (1889–1967)
  • Daniel O'Neill (1920–1974)
  • Jean Osborne (1926–1965)
  • Dennis Osborne (1919- )
  • C.T. Ovenden (1846–1924)

P

  • R.M. Patterson (1866–1951)
  • Charles Peers (1875–1944)
  • Daphne Pitt-Taylor (1889–1945)
  • Rosamund Praeger
    Rosamund Praeger
    Sophia Rosamond Praeger, MBE, HRHA, MA was an Irish artist, sculptor and writer.Born in Holywood, County Down, Ireland, she was educated at Sullivan Upper School, the Belfast School of Art and the Slade School of Art in London. She was the younger sister of the naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger.She...

     (1867–1954)
  • Gareth Pyper (1977- )

R

  • Phil Rafferty (1919–1996)
  • Clifford Rainey
    Clifford Rainey
    Clifford Rainey is a Northern Irish glass sculptor. he began his career as a linen damask designer and worked in William Ewarts linen manufacturers from 1965 to 1968...

     (1948- )
  • Marjorie Robinson (1858–1924)
  • Markey Robinson
    Markey Robinson
    Markey Robinson was a prolific Irish artist with a distinctive naïve expressionist style. His main passion was painting, but he also produced sculptures, and designed some stained glass panels....

     (1918–1999)
  • JP Rooney
  • George William Russell
    George William Russell
    George William Russell who wrote under the pseudonym Æ , was an Irish nationalist, writer, editor, critic, poet, and painter. He was also a mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of theosophy in Dublin, for many years.-Organisor:Russell was born in Lurgan, County Armagh...

     (1867–1935)

S

  • Matt Sandford (1877–1943)
  • William Scott
    William Scott (artist)
    William Scott was a British artist known for still life and abstract painting. He is the most internationally celebrated of 20th century Ulster painters.-Early life and education:...

     (1913–1989)
  • Paul Seawright
    Paul Seawright
    Paul Seawright is an artist born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1965. He currently lives in Belfast and is Professor of Photography at the University of Ulster in Belfast.-Life and work:...

     (1965- )
  • Dermot Seymour
    Dermot Seymour
    Dermot Seymour is a Northern Irish artist. He has been described as "a social realist, exploring the anxiety, bewilderment and absurdity of the situation in Northern Ireland and representing it with definite imagery but in an oblique and obscure way"...

     (1956- )
  • Elizabeth Shaw (1920–1992)
  • Neil Shawcross
    Neil Shawcross
    Neil Shawcross is an artist born in Kearsley, Lancashire, England, and resident in Northern Ireland since 1962. Primarily a portrait painter, his subjects have included novelist Francis Stuart , former Lord Mayor of Belfast David Cook , footballer Derek Dougan and fellow artists Colin Middleton...

     (1940- )
  • Oliver Sheppard
    Oliver Sheppard
    Oliver Sheppard RHA was an Irish sculptor, most famous for his 1911 bronze statue of the mythical Cuchullain dying in battle.-Family:...

     (1865–1941)
  • James Sleator
    James Sleator
    James Sinton Sleator , artist, was born in Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland.Painter of portraits and still life, James Sleator was son of William Slator , who taught at Derryvane National School, near Portadown, and was later principal of Strandtown National School, Belfast.The son...

     (1889–1950)
  • Victor Sloan
    Victor Sloan
    Victor Sloan MBE is an Irish photographer and artist.Victor Sloan studied at the Royal School, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone and Belfast and Leeds Colleges of Art, England. He lives and works in Portadown, County Armagh in Northern Ireland...

     (1945- )
  • Hamilton Sloan
    Hamilton Sloan
    Hamilton Sloan is an Irish painter.-Career:ArtistSpent several years in Donegal perfecting his craftCurrently living in Bangor, Co Down...

     (1945- )
  • Sidney Smith (1912–1982)
  • George Henry Smyth
    George Henry Smyth
    George H Smyth is an artist born in Ardglass, County Down, Northern Ireland.-Background:George H. Smyth was born in Ardglass in 1968. His father was a talented water-colourist. Before entering Art College, he had produced art work for Irish rock band Therapy?...

     (1968- )
  • A. Blanche Stack (1870- )
  • Andre Stitt
    Andre Stitt
    Andre Stitt , is a performance artist. Stitt's family moved from Belfast in the early 1960s and spent his early life in Seymour Hill, Dunmurry, near Lisburn, where he attended Dunmurry High School before going to Art College...

     (1958- )
  • Seamus Stoupe (1872–1949)

T

  • Anne Taylor (1907–1976)
  • Samuel C. Taylor (1870–1944)
  • Hugh Thompson (1860–1920)
  • Romeo Toogood (1902–1966)
  • John Turner (1916–2006 )

W

  • David Bond Walker (1891–1977)
  • Una Walker
  • James Ward (1851–1924)
  • George Waters
    George Waters
    George Waters was a pioneer in the credit card industry who is credited with transforming the American Express Card into a global brand and the flagship product of the American Express Company...

     (1863–1947)
  • Frank Wiles (1889–1956)
  • Maurice Wilks (1910–1984)
  • Chris Wilson (1959- )
  • David Wilson (1873–1935)
  • Ross Wilson
    Ross Wilson (artist)
    Ross Wilson is an artist from Northern Ireland. He studied Fine Art at the University of Ulster and at the Chelsea College of Art and Design and has been a visiting speaker at Harvard University and the University of Oxford...

     (1958- )
  • Thomas G. Wilson (1901–1969)
  • J. Edgar Winter (1875–1937)
  • David Winters (1942- )
  • Gordon Woods (artist) (1938- )
  • Padraic Woods (1893–1991)
  • R.J. Woods (1871–1955)
  • Jane Service Workman (1873–1949)
  • Ian Wilgaus (1984- )
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