Counihan Gallery

Social realist artist was known as a radical

Noel Counihan (1913-1986) was a social realist artist who refused to adhere to the tenets of Modernism and went his own way. He was a communist, and much of his work portrayed working people. He prov...

One of the 20th century's great realist artists

Noel Counihan (1913-1986) was a radical artist; he painted what he saw. Often his paintings involved working people or industrial environments, such as coal mining. For many years, his realist painti...

Social realist artist who earned renown

The Counihan Gallery does not have many works by Noel Counihan, whose paintings are extremely valuable these days. Counihan was a socialist, who painted in social realist style. He had a rough trot du...

New exhibition

There is a bit of humour and insight in this F_ocus exhibition, open until late April 2020. I loved the iconography of Kim Kardashian and the images relating to indigenous interactions with the coloni...

Small gallery probes contemporary issues

Noel Counihan was a social realist painter and print maker who used his art to expose social evils. He was a communist and an aetheist. His political viewpoint made him unpopular, but he is now recogn...