Gail Ritchie
Born Comber, Co Down. Previously a member of Cork Artists Collective
and Backwater Artists Group Cork before relocating to Belfast and joining
Queen Street Studios , in 2003.
Has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland and increasingly internationally
in China, Berlin, Mexico, Spain and Lithuania. Has had four major solo
exhibitions (Cosmic Dig, Albert, Arc, Pelt) between the period 1997
– 2003 as well as participating in numerous group shows. A fifth
solo exhibition takes place in October 2005 in Millennium Court Arts
Centre, Portadown .
Has received awards from Arts Council Ireland, Arts Council Northern
Ireland, Cultural Relations Committee and the British Council. Work
is in the collection of Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork and Trinity,
Dublin.
Her first collection of poetry ‘Coyote Leaping’ was published
in 2005 by Bradshaw Books, Cork.