Artist Rhys Douglas Farrell
Title The Aura of Incandescence
Media acrylic and aerosol on wood panel
Dated
2024
Size 47.5 x 47.5 in. / 120.6 x 120.6 cm.
Estimate $2,250 - $4,500
Notes
signed and dated verso; unframed
Provenance
generously donated by the artist; proceeds will be donated to the Kiyooka Ohe Art Centre and Sculpture Park in Springbank, Alberta. KOAC is a contemporary art centre founded by artists Harry Kiyooka and Katie Ohe where visitors can visit an impressive collection of outdoor sculptures while enjoying the sanctuary of environment. For more information or to donate directly, visit koartscentre.org
Biographical Information
Rhys Douglas Farrell ~ [21st century] Canadian
see artist's website at itsxyz.com; represented by Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary
Rhys Douglas Farrell is an artist living and working in Calgary, Alberta. He received his
Bachelor of Fine Arts (major in Drawing +Painting) from the Alberta University of the Arts in the
spring of 2016. Farrell is the recipient of several painting scholarship from AUARTS where he was
also the Representative for the Painting Department and the Director of the Student Gallery, Quoin
Gallery. He was signed on with the Herringer Kiss Gallery when still a student and his first solo show
was named by Canadian Art Magazine as a 'Must See'. Farrell has completed a number of public art
projects with the Telus Spark Science Center, Beltline Urban Mural Project, the City of Calgary and a
number of private commissions. His work has been aggressively collected by private and corporate
collections alike and he has completed five international residencies with Pinea & Linea De Costa
A.I.R program in Spain, Graniti Murales in Sicily, the TARP Program in Kuala Lumpur with Taksu
Gallery, JupiterFab Artist Residency program in Guadalajara, Mexico as well as The W Hotel Artist in
residence in Kuala Lumpur. Gaining international recognition he signed with TAKSU Gallery in
Singapore 2019 and Gallery Mckinley in 2023. Farrell is the recipient of the 2019 Alumni Horizon
Award from AUArts. Most recently Farrell received the Visual Arts Individual Project Grant from the
Alberta Foundation for the Arts.