Mike Byrne - Ceramic Artist
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Collections & Commissions
Ulster Museum
Limerick City Gallery of Art
AIB Bank
Áras an Uachtarán
University of Limerick 
Mary Immaculate College
Price Waterhouse
Office of Public Works
Glór, Ennis, Co. Clare
Limerick Chamber of Commerce 
National Self Portrait Collection
Handwerksform Hannover, Germany
​Limerick Institute of Technology/TUS
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Solo Exhibitions
2018 "In The Half Light" Custom House Studio & Gallery, Westport, Co. Mayo
2008 “Orto Botanico” Limerick Printmakers
2005 For Murray O’Laoire Architects a series of 16 large format (2.5 x 1.5 mts) woodcuts for apartments on Gerard Griffin St. Limerick
2004-2005 “Urbs Antiqua, New woodcuts” University of Limerick
2003 “Skies Over Venetia and other Vistas” Glór Ennis
2001 MA Show, Limerick City Hall
2000 Millennium Box Set. Hot Bed Press


Awards
​2016 The Peter Brennan Centenary Prize
2020 Homo Faber Guide recommendation

Organisations
Member of Limerick Printmakers
Co-Founder with David Lilburn of Art Network Europe
Co-Founder with David Lilburn of Hot Bed Press
Co-Founder with Mandy Parslow of Irish Contemporary Ceramics Collection at the Hunt Museum Limerick

​Selected Group Shows
2022                                                                                                                             'Made in Ireland', National Craft Gallery Kilkenny, Farmleigh House Dublin and Bambridge   Co Down.                                                                                                                     'Conjuring Form', National Crafts Gallery Kilkenny
'Form and Surface', with Jane Seymour at Kenny's Gallery, Galway.
 
2021
​International Glass and Ceramics Biennial. Haacht, Belgium, Invited artist.
'Conjuring Form', Design and Crafts Council of Ireland, Portfolio Critical Selection. Doneraile House. Co Cork. Ireland
Karamiek Triennale, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

2020
​'In the window' at the Bluecoat Display Centre Liverpool.
Handmade in Europe, Handwerksform, Hannover Germany.
'Material Matters', National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland 

2019
Painters and Makers, SO Fine art Editions, Powerscourt Town house, Dublin, Ireland 
'Material Matters', Design and Crafts Council of Ireland, Critical Selection 2019/20, Dublin Castle, Ireland./ Artesania Catalonia, CCAM Barcelona 
Volle Kanne, Handwerksform Hannover, Germany.
'Blurring the Edge', Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart, Co Down, N Ireland

2018
'Blurring the Edge', From 23rd November. New work with Mandy Parslow, Owen Quinlan, Mary Nagle and Marcus O'Mahony. Hunt Museum Limerick.
Ceramic Ireland Selected Exhibition, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin.

2017

'VASE', Function Revisited, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin
'Narratives in Making', Design & Crafts Council of Ireland 'Portfolio Critical Selection 2017/18', Nation Craft Gallery, Kilkenny & Ruthin Craft Centre, North Wales
'Touchstone' Curated by Ceramics Ireland, Farmleigh Gallery Dublin, and Nation Craft Gallery Kilkenny
'Jugs' Blue Egg Gallery, Wexford
'Ceramics Ireland Open', The Printworks, Dublin Castle 
​Bravura, Blue Egg Gallery Wexford

2016
​Irish Contemporary Ceramics at the Barony Centre Scotland
Ceramics Ireland Open at Farmleigh House Phoenix Park, Dublin
​National Craft Awards exhibition, RDS Dublin and National Museum of Country Life Co Mayo
VASE, Function Revisited, National Craft Gallery Kilkenny 
Savoir, Kilkenny Food week, Butler House, Kilkenny
Ceramics Ireland Selected Exhibition. Pierce Museum, Rathfarnham Dublin

2015
Portfolio @ Solomon Gallery  Design and Crafts Council of Ireland Portfolio Exhibition
​Mill Cove at the Open Window Gallery, Rathmines, Dublin
The Art of the Potter at Kill Rialaig, Co Kerry
Create, Brown Thomas, Grafton, St Dublin DCOI
Limerick Printmakers, Hunt Museum

2014
Irish Ceramic Awards, Mill Cove Gallery, West Cork
'Culture of Clay', Hunt Museum Limerick

2013

Open submission '13, Limerick Printmakers, curated by Charles Harper

2012
'Islands', Custom House Gallery Westport.
Open submission '12 Limerick Printmakers
Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery Exhibition, Kulturwerk des bbk Berlin Gmbh

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