Editing Felim Egan (section)

==Biography==
Born in [[County Donegal]], Egan attended [[St Columb's College]] in Derry before studying Art in [[Belfast]] and [[Portsmouth]] and at the Slade School of Art in [[London]]. He lived and worked in Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland. He painted restrained abstracts in which ghostly squares appear to float to the edge of a monochromatic canvas. The ethereal quality of his paintings owes itself in part to his technique of building up colour by applying layer after layer of thin acrylic mixed with powdered stone.

He represented Ireland at the [[Paris Biennale]] in 1980 and the [[São Paulo Art Biennial]] in 1985. In 1993 he won the Premier UNESCO Prize for the Arts in Paris, and he received the Gold Award at Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1997. Felim Egan was a member of [[Aosdána]]. Major exhibitions of his work were held at the [[The Whitworth|Whitworth]] Art Gallery, [[Manchester]] and the [[Irish Museum of Modern Art]], Dublin in 1995–96, and at the [[Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam]] in 1999.