NOEL MOLLOY VISUAL AND PERFORMANCE ARTIST
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ABOUT

Studied Limerick School of Art and Design 1978 – 1982.
Degree in Fine Art 1982. Works in sculpture/mixed media and performance art. He has exhibited and created performance extensively throughout Ireland, Western and Eastern Europe and the U.S.A.
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REVIEW 

thequietus.com/articles/31284-acid-granny-spilt-milk
Noel Molloy – Selected Audio Work 1983 - 1999
(Nyahh Records)
Since the late 70s, Roscommon multidisciplinary artist Noel Molloy has made strange, challenging works out of found objects and domestic detritus. Visit his website, and you’ll find contorted scrap metal sculptures of soldiers, dancers, kings and bears. You’ll see an Irish flag, painted across three bottles of holy water. You’ll see a baby’s pram, crudely repurposed into a sort of military vehicle. A rusty mask will stare back at you with a grotesque metallic grin. Molloy’s semi-figurative creations occupy an uncanny space that is tied to the familiar, but is outlandish enough to trigger unique, unpredictable responses. His feverishly out-there performance pieces engage the mind in a similar, synapse-sizzling way; costumes, set designs, abstract actions, cut-up audio and musical extracts allude to themes such as religion, conflict, history and environmentalism, but what it “means” is left entirely to the audience. Selected Audio Work 1983 - 1999, released on Leitrim’s Nyahh Records, stitches together the extracted sounds from some of these performances, leaving the mind to create its own wild, visual accompaniment. This is a collection of growling, hypnotic oddness, full of distorted voices, faint musical interjections and clattering environmental audio. It pulls you into its strange, tactile world, where the sounds of saw on wood, an inter-county fallout warning, and a crumpled clip of a 1930s pop tune become haunting choruses to a concrète symphony. It’s a fascinating document for the archives of experimental Irish art.

SUMMARY 

I am a visual and performance artist that continues to work nationally and internationally, exhibiting my sculpture and performing. My sculpture medium is found objects and is semi figurative. I perform nationally and internationally at symposiums, festivals and events.  I curate exhibitions and events such as group exhibitions of visual art, ARTS CABARET (live events) and have organised the international event CROSSROADS SYMPOSIUM '95.I continue to be part of national and international selected exhibitions, invited to exhibit and perform at festivals and symposiums.  

​COMMISSIONS / WORKSHOPS​ 
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I also accept commissions small and large, indoor and outdoor and request a deposit be made on agreement of purchases. I am available for workshops/ talks on visual art. 

COLLECTIONS

National Collection of Contemporary Drawing (NCCD) Limerick City Gallery of Art Limerick Ireland.
William and Mary Collage  Muscarelle Museum of  Art, Williamsburg VA USA.
​Landfill Art hubcap collection Wilkes-Barre PA USA.
​Banana Factory Arts Center Bethlehem PA USA.
Roscommon Civic Art Collection Roscommon County Council Ireland.
Roscommon , Castlerea and Longford Libraries. 
Private and public collections in Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Canada, China, USA. 




LINKS

​www.noelmolloyperformance.weebly.com  

www.workingartistsroscommon.weebly.com  

​biseachartcycle.weebly.com/

​www.crossroads95art.weebly.com  

​www.faxboxart.weebly.co
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issuu.com/noelmolloy/docs/biseach_book

www.nollaigmolloy.com

www.saerlaithmolloy.com





   
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MEMBER

M​Member Sculptors’ Society of Ireland/ Visual Arts Ireland(V.A.I.)
Member Irish Visual Artists Rights Organisation (IVARO) 
Member Artists Association of Ireland now joined with V.A.I. 
Member of Unit1 performance collective.
Founder, Administrator Working Artists Roscommon 1990 to present. 
Member of M2 time base Arts organisation.
Member Roscommon Visual Arts Forum.

Founder /Member  A.L.I.E.N. Artists Link International Exchange Network, international artists network 1996.
​Member Bbeyond performance Belfast Northern Ireland



AWARDS

2023 Individual Artists Bursary Roscommon Arts Office.
2022 Individual Artists Bursary Roscommon Arts Office.
​2021 Individual Artists Bursary Roscommon Arts Office.
2020  Creative Ireland Programme Clár Éire  Roscommon Arts Office.   
/Individual Artists Bursary Roscommon Arts Office.
2019    Individual Artists Bursary Roscommon Arts Office. /Cultural Night Ireland/Roscommon Arts Office fund.
​2018-Cultural Night Ireland/
​Roscommon Arts Office fund.
​2017 Cultural Night Ireland/
​Roscommon Arts Office fund.
2018    Artists Bursary Roscommon Arts Office. 
2017     Artists Bursary Roscommon Arts Office.
​2016     Artists Bursary Roscommon Arts Office.
​2016     Community Groups/ 1916 fund Roscommon Arts Office.

2014     Grant aid Roscommon County Arts Office.
2006     Arts Council of Ireland Travel and Mobility Award.
Grant Aid Roscommon V.E.C. / Roscommon Arts Office.

2003     Grant Aid from Roscommon V.E.C. / Roscommon Arts Office.
Grant aid from Cultural Relations Committee Dept. of Arts.
2001     E.C.D.L. Certificate for Computers.
2000     Arts Council of Ireland/ Aer Lingus Artflight Award.
Grant Aid from Roscommon V.E.C. / Roscommon County Council.
1999     Visual Arts Publications Assistance Award, Arts Council of Ireland.
Arts Council of Ireland / Aer Lingus Artflight Award.
Grant Aid from Roscommon V.E.C. / Roscommon County Council.
1998     Arts Council of Ireland / Aer Lingus Artflight Award.
US/Ireland Residence Award for Bethlehem Pennsylvania at
Bethlehem Musikfest Association T/A Banana Factory by the Arts Council of Ireland/ Americans for the Arts.
1996      Sponsorship from Cadbury Irl. Ltd. for Achill Island Symposium.
1995      Artist in the Community Arts Council of Ireland.
Arts Council of Ireland Grant for ‘Crossroads Symposium 1995.
1994      Artist in Residence Arts Council of Ireland.
1993      Arts Council of Ireland / Aer Lingus Artflight Award.
Cultural Relations Committee/ Dept. of Foreign Affairs Travel Award.
1991       Artist in the Community Arts Council of Ireland.
 

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Work Examples

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sculpture MASK
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commission PA USA
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performance' Farraige' Market Sq. Gallery Williamsburg VA USA
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