BIOGRAPHY

Charles Harper was born on Valencia Island Co. Kerry in 1943. He studied art at Limerick School of Art and the National College of Art in Dublin as well as filmmaking in Bonn, Germany. He exhibits regularly in Ireland and abroad and has represented Ireland many times abroad in such countries as India, Switzerland, Italy, Latvia, England, France, the US and Sweden.

Harper has received eight National Awards for his painting, including First prize for Painting commemorating the 1916 Rising at the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, The Carrols Open Award at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1971, the Arts Councils Bonn an Uachtarain de Hide at The Oireachtas Art Exhibition.

His work is included in many important public and private collections including the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to name a few. He was a lecturer at Limerick School of Art and Design (LIT), now retired.

He is a founder member of Aosdána and a member of the RHA since 2002.