Public Art
2012 Shortlisted for Dungannon Castle Hill public art commission
2011 Public sculpture for Coalisland Library to commemorate Jim Canning
2011 Public sculpture for Causeway Hospital, Coleraine; Artscare
2011 Shortlisted for Ribble Link public art commission, Lancashire
2011 Shortlisted for Scotswood Village Green commission, Newcastle upon Tyne
2011 Public sculpture for Iontas Theatre, Castleblaney
2011 Public sculpture for Portrush East Strand (Information Page)
2010 Public sculpture for Maghery, Co. Armagh (Information Page)
2010 Shortlisted for Ballycastle/Rathlin commission
2010 Shortlisted for Newcastle West sculpture commission
2010 Public sculpture commission for Armagh City (Information Page)
2010 Shortlisted for Newry, Ballybot commission
2010 Shortlisted for Belfast City Hall artwork
2010 Shortlisted for Newry Historic Canal feature sculpture
2009 Shortlisted for An Nasc commission, Belfast (with Deiseal)
2008 Shortlisted for N8 Mitchelstown Bypass (with Deiseal)
2008 Public sculptures for Oxford Island National Nature Reserve
2008 Public sculpture commission for Lough Gur (with Deiseal)
2006 Public sculpture for Kinnego Marina, Co. Armagh
2005 Public sculpture for Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
2003 City Neighbourhoods perpetual award trophy, Dublin
2003 Shortlisted for public art commission at the Hurst, Shropshire
2001 Shortlisted for public art commission in Navan, Co. Meath
1998 Trophies for Cinemagic film awards, Belfast
1998 Shortlisted for public sculpture commission in Irvinestown
For more information visit the Public Sculpture page and sub-pages.
One and Two Person Shows
2008 Bronze and Concrete, Glór Gallery, Ennis (two)
2007 Beyond the Littoral, Antrim
2007 Higher Bridges Gallery, Enniskillen
2007 An Lorg Brain, Glór Gallery, Ennis (two)
2005 Cavan Co. Museum, Ballyjamesduff
2004 Particia Smart Gallery, Penzance
2002 Rood Gallery, Bristol
1999 The Engineroom Gallery, Belfast
1998 Ards Art Centre, Newtownards
1998 Bonnies, Belfast (two)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
Artistic Alliance Ballymaloe House, Co. Cork(s), (c)
2011
Home, Away, Common Ground, National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi (s), (c)
2006 Works on Paper, Glór Gallery, Ennis (s)
2005
The Caught Bouquet, Cavan (s), (c)
2004
Voicing Dissent, Falmouth Arts Centre, (s), (c)
2004
Design (R)evolution, The Eden Project (s), (c)
2001 Linenhall Gallery, Belfast
2001
Grandes et Jeunes d'Aujourd Hui, Paris, (s), (c)
2001
From Ritual to Romance, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, (s)
2001 Art Garden, Bristol
2000
State-of-the-art, Engineroom Gallery, Belfast, (s), (c)
2000 Art Garden, Bristol
2000 Phoenix Gallery, Belfast, (s)
2000
Consequence, Engineroom Gallery, Belfast, (s)
1999 Stable Gallery, Roundstone, Connemara
1999 Centro del Arte Verrocchio, Casole d’Elsa
1999
Iontas, Small Works Exhibition, Limerick, Dublin, Belfast, (s)
1999 Barn Gallery, Hillsborough (c)
1998
Iontas, Small Works Exhibition, Sligo, Dublin, Belfast, (s), (c)
1998 Ulster Hospital, Dundonald
1998
Happenstance, Engine Room Gallery, Belfast, (s), (c)
1998 Emer Gallery, Belfast, (s)
(s) indicates curated exhibition, (c) catalogued exhibitions
Work in Collections
Work in private collections in Germany, Ireland, Britain and USA and in public and corporate collections in Ireland and Britain, including Heinrich Böll Cottage, Achill; Cavan County Council; UCD, Dublin and several UK Council collections.
Selected Bibliography and Press
'About: Holger Lonze', Craft NI and Perspective magazine, October 2011(Read)
'Holger Lonze', RTÉ Radio 1 Culture File by Eleanor Flegg, Sept. 2011
'Making the Bronze Age' TAG 2010 Session Review, PAST, Prehistoric Society (Read)
Continuing the Bronze Age, paper for TAG 2010, Bristol archaeology conference
Your Place and Mine, BBC Radio Ulster, April 2010
Artists Newsletter [a-n], December 2009
Nicholas Crane’s Brittania, BBC television (Tern TV), January/December 2009
Hidden Heritage, UTV, by Brian Black, March 2009
Traditional Boats of Ireland, ed. Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh, Collins, 2008
BBC Newsline, November 2007, by Gordon Adair
A Humble Skiff, Resurgence, Nov./Dec. 2005
The Caught Bouquet, Heater Brett (ed.), Nov. 2005
Through Time and Tide, exhibition catalogue, October 2005
Belfast Telegraph; August 2005. Article on currachs by Debroah Dundas
RTÉ 1 Nationwide programme. Sept. 2005; Tom Sweeney
Seascapes, Sept. 2005 by the same presenter
The Visual Artist’s News Sheet, Issue 1, 2005; article on bronze work
The Poetry of Materials, Eden Friends magazine, March 2004
Shed Men, Gareth Jones, Wordwell, London, 2004
Eco-Design Handbook, ed. 2004, section on currachs
Design (R)evolution, CD-ROM resource, The Eden Project, 2004
Water Craft; No. 53, Sept./Oct. 2004; Grow your own boat; Steve Graham
Setting Sail in Baskets, British Basketmaker’s Society Newsletter, July 2003
Baskets in the Ocean, Westcountry Woodsmen newsletter, August 2003
Awards
Tyrone Guthrie Centre Bursary, Cork County Council, 2012
Arts Council of Ireland Travel Award, 2011
Arts Council of Northern Ireland SIAP Award, 2006/7, 2008/9
Travel awards of Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft 1997 and 1998
Janet Konstam Award for research into sculpture in Italy, 1999
Aer Lingus Art Flights, 1999, 2001
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