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Rory Prout Sea Stack II, 2022 Ash and Resin on Primed Paper Signed verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About I am an Irish artist living and working in the UK. I have exhibited widely in Ireland and England and have undertaken residencies in Ireland, Italy, Belgium, and Ethiopia. My paintings have previously addressed experiences of the remote Irish landscape, and in more recent years, featured rural scenes from the south coast of England. Education M.A. Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory and Criticism, UCC, 2015 B.A. Fine Art Painting, LSAD, 2008 Select Exhibitions/Awards Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London, 2022 Views From The Cloud Chamber, Project 78, St. Leonards, 2021 The Lowering Skies, Gallery Interlude, Limerick, 2019 The Sussex Open, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, 2018 GREENHOUSE, Volt, Eastbourne, 2017 Folding Landscapes, Burren College of Art, Clare & 126 Gallery, Galway 2016 Emerging Irish Artist Residency Award, Burren College of Art, 2015 Painter in Residence, The Irish Embassy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2015 Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My paintings are made using oil paint on wooden panels, but also with ash, chalk, gesso, wax or resin. The work I have submitted to AOAP are resin and laser engraved ash on primed paper. I experiment with materials and processes in an effort to reinvent the painting medium for myself, in order to try and understand it, to define some part of it. That definitive part that I keep coming back to is the trace of an absent subject; the indexical sign normally associated with photography. Painting, however, is a self-indulgent activity and the traces it fixes are always those of the painter Message from Art On A Postcard: Please do not bid if you intend to sell on the artwork. All artworks have been generously donated by the artists to raise money for The Hepatitis C Trust and when work is sold on the secondary market, it damages our relationship with the artist and prevents us from fundraising