Gerry Waldron was born in Dublin in 1945. He started sculpting and painting full-time in 2000, after 25 years living and working in the Middle East. He has travelled extensively and currently divides his time between London and the Republic of Ireland, where he has a studio/gallery.
2008
Oct 22nd - Nov 15th: The Truth of the Matter, Sculpture & Paintings, The Market House, Mullingar (solo show)
April 5th - 30th: Being One's Self, Sculpture & Paintings, Lucy Tormey Visual Arts Studio & Gallery, Mullingar (solo show)
2007
Group shows, June & December, Visual Arts Gallery, Mullingar
2006
The Naked Truth: An exhibition of Contemporary Figurative Sculpture, Kensington & Chelsea College Gallery, London
2005
Boyle Art Festival website
Mind into Matter, The Meridiana Gallery, Kensington, London (solo show of sculptures)
2004
“Christ and the Apostles” judged winner by the Sculpture Department in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Inspired by the V&A competition. website
2003
Exhibition of Irish Art, The Walton Gallery, Gloucester Road, London
2002
Bodies and Souls, Mullingar Art Centre, Mullingar (solo show of sculpture, paintings and drawings)
2001
A Spiritual Journey, The Narthex Gallery, King’s Road, Chelsea, London (solo show of paintings)
In addition his work has been regularly included in group shows at the Beldam Gallery (Brunel University, Uxbridge), The Chelsea Art Society Annual Exhibition (Town Hall, Chelsea) and The Kensington & Chelsea College Annual exhibition (Hortensia Gallery, Chelsea).
• Press Coverage
Boyle Art Festival:
Gerry Waldron’s portly Jeff (Firbolg) recalls the contemporary classicism of Waldemar Otto, the subject of a major show as part of the Galway Arts Festival some years back.
Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times
Irish Art Exhibition, The Walton Gallery:
The honesty of Gerry Waldron's work unnerves as well as engages the viewer. His acute perception of human life brings an original, inimitable quality to his sculpture. He works from the model, slowly over a long period of time. Not inhibited by working from life, his work is created with meticulous intensity displaying an unforgiving and penetrating observation. He focuses on the nakedness and vulnerability of the human body, conveying the texture and thinness of skin over flesh, exposing its blemishes and wrinkles. His sculptures are dramas without incident or narrative, haunting in their quality and disturbing in their frankness.
Damian Matthews
Bodies and Souls, Mullingar Art Centre:
Gerry’s painting is contemplative, emanating from the solitary self. He attempts to capture the ‘inner mindscapes’, sometimes using figurative imagery, sometimes abstract.
Marian Keaney, The Westneath Examiner