Janet Mullarney

Janet Mullarney attended the Accademia di Belle Arti and Scuolo Professionale de Intaglio in Florence, and divided her time between Italy and Ireland for many decades. Her extensive travels - including trips to India, Mexico and Egypt - had a clear influence on her work. She exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in Ireland, Italy and elsewhere. She is represented in the collections of IMMA; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; Crawford Art Gallery; Limerick City Gallery; The Model, Sligo; MACO, Mexico; The Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labador; Millennium Art Museum, Beijing and Shanghai. Mullarney lived in Italy from 1970, and her home in the Tuscan hills was situated near Masaccio’s birthplace, San Giovanni Valdarno. Several works by her are in the Casa Masaccio Arte Contemporanea there. She received the RUA Perpetual Silver Medal (2009); the RHA Sculpture Award (2008); the Irish America O’Malley Award (2005; and the Pollock Krasner Award (1998). She was also shortlisted for the Hennessy Portrait Prize in 2015. She produced commissions for the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast in 2001, and for St Ultan’s National School in Cherry Orchard, Dublin between 2006 and 2009. Mullarney was elected a member of Aosdána in 1998, and an Associate member of the RHA in 2010. A book featuring photographs of the artist, illustrations of her work, and personal tributes by friends and associates was published by Irish Academic Press this year.