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Basil Blackshaw (Born in Glengormley, Co. Antrim
1932) is an Irish painter.

Blackshaw's painting are often figurative in form,
but with a non-naturalistic palate which
rebalances the composition in an expressionist,
even abstract, way. His themes are very Irish and
often rural; greyhounds, Irish Travellers and the
landscape. He has also produced portraits and has
designed posters for Derry's Field Day Theatre
Company.

The Arts Council of Northern Ireland organised a
major retrospective of his work in 1995, which
travelled from Belfast to Dublin, Cork and many
galleries in the U.S. In 2001 he received the Glen
Dimplex award for a Sustained Contriubtion to the
Visual Arts in Ireland is the distinguished Irish
painter Basil Blackshaw. The Ulster Museum held a
major exhibition of his work in 2002.

==Works in Collections==
* The Arts Council of Northern Ireland including:
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http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/aotm/1995/dec1995.ht
m The Last Walk
* The Arts Council of Ireland including:
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http://www.artscouncil.ie/gallery/details.asp?id=4
2 Green Landscape (1980)
* The Ulster Museum
* The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin,
including:
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http://www.hughlane.ie/collection/collDetail.asp?o
ffset=2 Niall's Pony (1997)
==References and External Links==

* Brian McAvera (2002),
http://www.irishartsreview.com/html/vol19_no3/blac
kshaw/blackshaw_feature.htm Basil Blackshaw: A New
Vision, Irish Arts Review  Vol 19 No 3.
*
http://www.artscouncil.ie/aosdana/biogs/visualarts
/basilblackshaw.html Aosdána short biography
* http://www.modernart.ie/en/page_19287.htm The
Press Release announcing the 2001 Glen Dimplex
award