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4pp. Exhibition open Daily 10 a.m.-5.30 p.m. Saturday 10 a,m,-1p.m. until Saturday 24th September 1960. Minor wear, stains and creases. Rare. Sheridan, Noel (1936?2006), artist, actor, and arts administrator, was born 12 December 1936 in Dublin one of three children (two daughters and a son) of Cecil (Brinsley) Sheridan, entertainer, and his wife Ann ('Nan') (née Doyle). His son, (Cecil) Noel Sheridan, attended Synge Street CBS but left without a clear career plan. While working as an office boy and then clerk in the circulation office of the Irish Independent newspaper, he studied for four years at night in TCD for a B.Comm. degree, and took a diploma in public administration in 1958. During that time he began acting with Trinity Players, and also wrote satirical pieces for revues; his first performances received good reviews, as his father's son but also on his own account. For a number of years, up until 1963, he continued to act semi-professionally. He was also, however, interested in the visual arts, though he lacked formal training; his early work appeared from 1958 in the annual exhibitions of Living Art (winning the Carroll prize for painting in 1965 and 1969), and in the Paris Biennale in 1960. Encouraged by this success, and by winning a prize of £50 in an art competition, the young man left his job in the newspaper to become an artist. His abstract landscapes attracted the attention of Leo Smith, of the Dawson Gallery, who put on a show of his work in 1960. (Sheridan was one of the five young artists who in 1959 founded a group called Independent Artists, risking thereby the displeasure of established, influential figures such as Smith.) In 1961 Sheridan was awarded one of the first Macaulay fellowships (established by William J. B. Macaulay (qv) in 1958), and with his new wife, Liz (née Murphy), moved to London for a year to develop as an artist. He exhibited again in the Dawson Gallery the following year, appeared as a lead character in an RTÉ television drama by Thomas Coffey, The long sorrow (1963), and continued a collaboration with his father's colleague, the actor and writer John Molloy (1929?99). They wrote and performed in several versions of a revue, 'Tete at eight', which enjoyed enthusiastic press comment and long runs in the Gate and Eblana theatres from 1959 to 1962. The show was produced at the famous jazz festival in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1963, and moved to the Strollers Theatre on Broadway, but was not a success, as its opening coincided with the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. At this point, Sheridan decided to stop working in the theatre to concentrate on his painting. His father's eminence and local popularity in Dublin was a difficulty for him, and he believed that professionalism demanded specialisation. Moreover, he wanted to stay in New York, an exciting place for a young artist. He took a job as gallery attendant in New York's Museum of Modern Art, painting by night, and with the assistance of a scholarship entered Columbia University in 1967 to study for a master's degree in fine art. Thereafter he was strongly influenced by the conceptual art movement which was developing in the New York art scene, effectively changing the definition of art; for years he felt it was no longer worthwhile to paint, and instead concentrated on art events, performance art, video, and what would come to be called multi-media. His skills as performer and writer underpinned his new departures. He died at his home in Fremantle, Western Australia, on 12 July 2006, survived by his wife Liz, four daughters and a son. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers DAY133
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