Brian Henderson was born in Wicklow in 1950. Brian began painting and exhibiting his work at the very early age of 18 in the Living Art, Independent Artists and Oireachtas exhibitions in Dublin between 1968- 71.
He has become known as an abstract artist, and is noted for his bold and vibrant use of colour, scale and structure.
Joining in 1968, Brian was a committee member of the original Project Arts Centre; in 1971, he held his first one-man show there of large-scale paintings and was subsequently awarded the prestigious William J.B, McCauley Travel Fellowship by the Arts Council of Ireland, and to this day is the youngest recipient of this award.
On receiving the award, Brian moved to New York, where he continued to live and work in loft warehouse studios in the Chelsea, Soho, and Tribeca districts of lower Manhattan.
His immediate neighbours and acquaintances at this time included Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, and John Lennon.
Henderson’s work has been shown in many of the major galleries and bought by museums in the U.S.A, U.K, Europe and Ireland over the past forty years. He is also represented in many major collections worldwide.
In Ireland, his works are notably represented in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Ulster Museum, the Arts Council, UCD, the Bank of Ireland, the Central Bank, the Office of Public Works, Coleraine University and in the Contemporary Irish Arts Society.
In 2007 Brian was made a member of Aosdána (the top honour for an Irish artist.)
His current exhibition ‘Planned Palimpsests’ (a palimpsest is defined as a parchment or other writing material from which one or more previous writings have been erased to make room for another), at the renowned Taylor Galleries, 16 Kildare Street, Dublin 2, will be extended in the upper floors for another three weeks.
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