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Michael Mulcahy, b.1952

Dogon Series 8, 1988

One of the most distinctive voices of his generation, Michael Mulcahy is an inveterate traveller, creating highly abstracted paintings of the many remote places he has lived through an intense use of abstract form and sizzling colour.
Mulcahy’s vision of the artist is as the Shaman or healer who suffers for, and guides society to a better state.
Other works by Michael Mulcahy in the IMMA Collection include paintings from his ‘Dogon’ and ‘Ganga’ series.

MediumAcrylic oil and gold leaf on canvas
Dimensions Unframed, 198 x 229 cm
Credit LineIMMA Collection: Donation, Maire and Maurice Foley, 2000
Item NumberIMMA.898 FD
Copyright For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].
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Michael Mulcahy, Dogon Series 8, 1988, Acrylic oil and gold leaf on canvas, Unframed, 198 x 229 cm, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Donation, Maire and Maurice Foley, 2000

For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].

  • About the Artist

    • About the Artist

    Michael Mulcahy, b.1952

    Irish painter Michael Mulcahy attended the Crawford Municipal School of Art, Cork, and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Mulcahy is prominently associated with Neo-expressionist painting in Ireland. He has travelled extensively, particularly in North and West Africa where he lived with local communities. His semi-abstract paintings make reference to those groups, such as the Dogon in Mali, with which he has engaged. Mulcahy represented Ireland at the Sidney Biennale in 1984.

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    Artworks by Michael Mulcahy

    Ganga 2

    Ganga 2 Michael Mulcahy 1991

    The Sepic River as the Sun Goes Sleeping

    The Sepic River as the Sun Goes Sleeping Michael Mulcahy 1989

    Ch’uksoam 1 Do-Gong Series 18 Michael Mulcahy c. 1993

    ‘Mary you forgot your present’ Michael Mulcahy 1984

    Stranger

    Stranger Michael Mulcahy 1983

    The Navigator

    The Navigator Michael Mulcahy 1982