Jane Rainey

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Jane Rainey is a fine artist painter based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 2014 Rainey graduated from the Ulster University, Belfast, with a first class honours in Fine Art Painting. Whilst there she was recognised for artistic merit by being awarded the Dean’s List Award and the John and Rachel Turner Bursary Award. She then went on to complete a Master in Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland in 2016. Since her graduation Rainey has extensively exhibited in Belfast, Dublin and throughout Ireland, and has started exhibiting further afield in USA and Italy.

Education

2016  Masters in fine art painting, National College of Art and Design, Dublin

2014 First class honours in fine art painting, University of Ulster, Belfast

2011 Distinction, certificate in foundation studies, art and Design, University of Ulster, Belfast

Solo Exhibitions

2018 (July) The Cross Gallery, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin

2017 The Ultimate Fate of the Universe, Ards Art Center, Co. Antrim

Group Exhibitions

2018

(May) Invited to show at RHA 188th Annual Exhibition, Dublin

(May) Art Trail, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Bullitt Hotel, Belfast

2017

Gallery 545 launch, QSS Gallery, Belfast

VUE Art Fair, RHA, Dublin

Art Explorations, Atelier Design, Belfast

Futures Series 3, Episode one, RHA, Dublin

Hermione, Alexandra College, Dublin 

A Bounce Borrowed, The Dock, Curated by Sarah Searson, Carrick on Shannon

2016

QSS, A Painting Show, Belfast

An Insider Art Exhibition, Victoria Square, Belfast 

Contemporary Art at Christmas Exhibition, Mason Hayes & Curran, Dublin

Headless Cities, TULCA, Curated by Daniel Jewesbury, Galway

RDS Visual Art Awards, Curated by Alice Maher, Dublin  

Affordable Art Fair, New York, represented by Sol Art Gallery Dublin

Amalgamate, PS2 Gallery, Belfast

Art Works, Éigse, Carlow

MFA Graduate Exhibition, NCAD, Dublin

Royal Hibernian Academy, Annual Exhibition. Dublin  

2015

We are nonetheless always under the influence of gravity, Curated by Lee Welch, NCAD

Gate Europa,Palazzetto Dell’ Arte, Foggia, Italy

Drawing today, Signal Arts, Brae

Disrupting Reality, Spectrum Centre, Belfast

Wet, Hive Emerging, Waterford

2014

State of play, Masters show at NCAD, Emmet House Dublin

The possibilities of here and now, Waterfront hall, Belfast

New Talents, Market Place theatre and arts centre, Armagh

Open minds, University of Ulster, Belfast

Introducing,Waterfront Hall

2011

End of year show, Foundation year, University of Ulster

ISFIT, Festival, Norway

2017 OPW State Art Collection Ireland

2016 Mason Hayes and Curran Private Corporate Art Collection

2017 Project Art, Chapter One, Dublin