Michael Canning

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Michael Canning studied sculpture at Limerick School of Art & Design, LIT, and at The School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece, after being awarded the Greek Government Scholarship. He completed an MA in Painting at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 1999. Michael is a lecturer at the Department of Fine Art, at Limerick School of Art & Design, LIT, and has taught on the Sculpture and Combined Media and Painting courses. His studio practice addresses issues in painting, sculpture and printmaking surrounding the relationships between imagery and its meanings, matter and its transformations, history, memory and fact. In 2007 Canning was awarded a fellowship by The Ballinglen Artists Foundation. He was awarded the Hennessy Craig Scholarship by the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2005. Selected recent exhibitions include In Residence, Oliver Sears Gallery, Fitzroy Sq, London., Artists’ Rooms, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Language and Information., Waterhouse & Dodd, London., Things Go Dark, Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo., and Interlude, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin. His work is in private and public collections internationally, including Allied Irish Banks, Bank of Ireland, AXA Ireland, University of London, The National Self Portrait Collection at University of Limerick, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Department of An Taoiseach, McCann Fitzgerald Dublin, McGraw Hill London, and Office of the Attorney General.