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Artist Information:
Derek Culley
SOUTHPORT,
United Kingdom
Member Since: Apr 2005
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Artist Exhibitions:



Previous Exhibitions

Group Shows

1985 Windsor Fringe Festival
Windsor
1986 Celtic Vision Tour
Conde Ducqe Gallery Madrid

Kiosko Alfonso La Coruna
Crawford Art Gallery Cork
Glasgow Arts Centre Glasgow

1987 Celtic Vision Tour
Orial Mostyn Llandudno
Bede Gallery Jarrow
Newlyn Gallery Penzance
Chapter Gallery Cardiff
P.A.R.C. Nantes...

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Born and educated in Dublin,
Derek Culley is essentially a
Celtic Artist mainly self
taught and intuitive in
approach. As a young man his
visual imagination was
stimulated by early Celtic
stone carvings on exhibition
at the National Museum in
Dublin.

Their monumental presence and
symbolic mystery...

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Artist Statement for Derek Culley



About Derek Culley

Derek Culley b.1952 –

Self-taught artist, born and educated in Dublin, with an Irish father and English mother.
Culley did his masters degree in marketing through Brunel University, 1992-94, his dissertation subject being “Marketing of the visual arts in Britain – are there lessons to be learned from Europe?”

Culley was a founder member and chairman of Celtic Vision with the painters John Bellany and Denis Bowen, and participated in the group’s exhibition tour in 1986-7. He took part in many other group shows including The London Group tour 1987; Knapp Gallery, 1988: 2000 Years Celebration, Customs House Dublin, 1991; Modern Irish Painting, Dillon Gallery, 1995; and Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art, Republic of Macedonia, 1996.

Solo shows include “Five Years of Culley” The Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin Ireland, 1989, and The Irish Club, London 1996.
Strong chiaroscuro, heavy impasto, vigorous brushwork and direct, expressive handling were characteristics of Culley’s work, in which Celtic imagery and associations were important.
Lived in Windsor, Berkshire.”

The Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945.
By David Buckman
Art Dictionaries Limited, Bristol 1998








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