Niall de Buitléar


Niall de Buitléar is an Irish artist working in sculpture, painting, and drawing.

Education and Career

De Buitléar is a graduate of the Dublin Institute of Technology. He was awarded a studio membership at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios from 2011–14. De Buitléar was also the winner of the fourth annual Wexford Arts Centre Emerging Visual Artist Award in 2009 and the Irish Artists’ Residential Studio Award 2009 – 2010 at the Red Stables in St Anne’s Park, Dublin.

Work

Writing about his exhibitions, The Irish Times art critic Aidan Dunne, described De Buitléar’s paintings as "built from intricate concentric patterns, are geometric but also suggestive of organic processes. They equate to the world outside: complex and orderly but also contingent and unpredictable. Their handmade precision makes them visually fascinating". Dunne has also written that "De Buitléar’s paintings and sculptures start with a basic geometric motif, the circle. This circular unit reverberates through varieties of echoing, concentric patterns. On the one hand the patterning is absolutely strict, retaining its geometric basis. On the other, the works are made by hand, so that tiny fluctuations of touch, the fallibility of the human hand, is part of the overall character of the works. In fact, it’s essential to their character."

Selected Exhibitions