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. He uses mixed media (mainly water colours and acrylic).

Selected exhibitions - Jim Manley

1976 Arts Council Gallery, Belfast 1978 Davis Gallery, Dublin 1979/80 Bell Gallery, Belfast 1982/84 Lincoln Gallery, Dublin 1985 Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast 1986 Hendricks Gallery, Dublin 1989/91 Solomon Gallery, Dublin 1992/94/97/99 Duncan Campbell, London 1992/93 The coast of Co. Down, Downpatrick, Sligo, Cavan, Armagh 1993 Bluecoat Chambers, Liverpool 1995 Basement Gallery, Dundalk 1996 Dyehouse Gallery, Waterford 1997 Blackcombe Gallery, Cork 1997 Ayesha Castle, Killiney 1998 Wolfson College, Oxford 1998 Croatian Embassy, London 2000 Dyehouse Gallery, Waterford 2000 Bluecoat Chambers Gallery, Liverpool 2001/3 Duncan Campbell, London 2004 Origin Gallery, Dublin 2003 Linen Hall Library, Belfast 2004 Origins Gallery, Dublin 2004 Cill Rallaig, County Kerry 2005 Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast 2008 The Yard Gallery, Portaferry 2010 Castle Espie, Comber, County Down 2010 Caldwell Gallery Belfast

Selected exhibitions - various artists

1980/99 Royal Ulster Academy (RUA) 1988 Ulster Way - Galleries throughout Ireland 1989 The Mournes, Narrow Water Gallery, Warrenpoint 1990 Young EVA, Limerick 1991 Paradise Island, Bluecoat Chambers, Liverpool 1991/99 IONTAS, Sligo 1994 Watercolours at the Walker, Liverpool 1995 Blian is Fice as Fag, Sligi 1997 Honouring Colmcille, Donegal/Edinburgh 2003 Exhibition of the Sea, Leith, Edinburgh 2004 IONTAS, Sligo 2007 Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition

Awards

1979 McGonigal Prize, Oireachtas 1984 Paton's Prize, EVA 1997 Landscape Prize, RUA 1997 Elmwood Gallery, Smallworks 1999 Painting Prize, IONTAS 2005 Ross's Watercolour Prize, RUA

Watercolours purchased by public collections

Conrad Hotel - Dublin UTV - Belfast Stormont Castle - Belfast Abbott Hall - Kendal Walker Art Gallery- Liverpool Bank of Ireland - Dublin Allied Irish Bank International Arts Council of Northern Ireland Down County Museum

Watercolours purchased by private collections His Excellency the Croatian Ambassador - Dubrovnik Seamus Heaney Stephen Rea Dean Sullivan Lady Lea Leigh the late Colin Middleton