ROY TUMELTY
dRAstiC pLAstiC
EXPRESSIONIST
http://www.geocities.com/skinboyz
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I was born in Belfast Ireland March 25th 1971, raised in St. Catharines Ontario. I am self-taught artist with no previous institutional experience beyond secondary school. Have spent several years exploring and developing my artistic abilities while traveling in Canada, Irealnd, Scotland, Englad and the United States. My work is also scattered amongs many of the places that I have travelled and where ever the owners ended up, these works are in various mediums from my pencil, painting to my furniture and installations.
ONE MAN SHOWS
1994 Cellarbench, St. Catharines, ON
1996 No No's, Toronto, ON
1997 Bar Babylon, Toronto, ON
Dr. K. Lipinski, Toronto, ON
1998 Queer Space "Exorcism" Belfast, Ireland
1998 Body Tattoo started in Ireland
2000 new web site :)
GROUP SHOWS
1990 Ballett-Mackenzie Art Gallery, St. Catharines, ON
Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON (juried exhibition)
1994 Barbwire Gallery, Toronto, ON
Canadian Craft Gallery, Toronto, ON
Beantree's, St. Catharines, ON
Child Find, NOTL, ON (juried exhibition)
1995 Beantree's, St. Catharines, ON
Rhino Gallery, Toronto, ON (apperared in magazine ARTWORD)
Rhino Gallery, Toronto, ON (interviewed for c.b.c. and city t.v.)
1996 Beantree's, St. Catharines, ON
1997 Firsthand Gallery, Toronto, ON
Camilla Scott Talk Show 'Designing Geniuses'
1998 Foylefriend/Amnesty International, Derry Ireland (charity auction)
2000 Prego Della Piazza, "Individual" & "Extinction of the Bondages of Egoism"
2000 auction for The Arbitration League of Monroe county 'Damhsa Naom Padraig le Cu Chulainn an nathair'
COMMISSIONS
1992 Vernisage, House of Blane, Montreal QUE
1995 Vernisage, Dr. K. Lipinski, Toronto, ON
1996 Dr. K. Lipinksi "Christmas", (piece in Europe somewhere)
1997 II Chez Cafe, Toronto, ON (doors for the washrooms)
1998 Queer Space, Ireland (mural "confession" appeared in zine G.C.N)
1998 Michael Carlevale, Toronto, ON "individual"
1998 2 ashtrays, one mural and one drawing Ireland
1998 "boy on bacon" for Eddie Gray painted on top of the only UNFINSIHED
piece of Francis Bacon :))))) lol London England
1999 Michael Carlevale "extinction of the bondages of egoism" Toronto
1999 Rodney Curtis "tikkun" Rochester, NY
2000 Bill "2 portraits" Toronto, ON
2000 Bob Mackie 'portrait of him' while in Toronto, ON
2000 Judith Laing, Rochester, NY
2000 Rodney Curtis, Rochester, NY