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In Oliver Comerford's work, the landscape plays a supporting role as the transient backdrop to the journey depicted. His subject matter is not the landscape as destination, but the momentary awareness of a timeless world existing outside the windows of a speeding car. The geographic disparity of his subjects, as well as the allusions to contemporary film and photography, serve to underline the way in which we perceive the outside world in our daily lives as we shuttle between destinations. In his catalogue essay to the Royal Hibernian Academy exhibition earlier this year, Patrick Murphy perfectly described Comerford's romantic realism as a 'blue note of melancholy' deriving from 'the truck stops, bends, and airports of our itinerant lives'.

Now Dublin-based, Comerford studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London; Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine; NCAD, Dublin and The Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include the RHA Gallagher Galleries, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Temple Bar Gallery and The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, as well as numerous group shows. His work is included in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane Gallery and Office of Public Works.