Category Archives: Bibliography

Carissa Farrell | Consolitated Practice | Visual Artists Ireland News Sheet July/August | 2014 In April this year, I took part in an Ask the Artist event at the Luan Gallery, Athlone, with artist Tom Climent. We sat in the gallery with an audience and engaged in conversation about his exhibition, Vessels, and wider his practice as an artist. FollowingContinue reading “Carissa Farrell’s article Consolitated Practice in the Visual Artists Ireland News Sheet July/August | 2014”

Mark Ewart | Review of A Place Found | Sternview Gallery | The Irish Examiner | 2014 Tom Climent has built a solid reputation for paintings that seduce the eye, and compositions that smoulder with theatrical tension and atmosphere. The energy and expressiveness of early work has come to be replaced by a calmer and more contemplativeContinue reading “Mark Ewart’s review of A Place Found at the Sternview Gallery in The Irish Examiner | 2014”

Cristín Leach Hughes | Review of Final State | Blueleaf Gallery | The Sunday Times | 2012 One of the great joys of looking at painting lies in observing how the artist handles colour. The abstract architectural structures in Tom Climent’s compositions shimmer in a place where green and pink meet orange, and russet red dances withContinue reading “Cristín Leach Hughes’s review of Final State at the Blueleaf Gallery in The Sunday Times | 2012”

Margaret O’Brien | Irish Interiors Magazine | 2010 Tom Climent’s paintings have an arrestingly luminosity. It’s a quality that reels in the viewer, compelling them to stop, and stare into the soul of his vibrant work. In recent years many of those in the know in the Irish art world, have tipped the Cork basedContinue reading “Margaret O’Brien’s article on Tom Climent in the magazine Irish Interiors | 2010”

Robert O’Byrne | Dictionary of Living Irish Artists | 2009 Few young artists of late have caused such excitement at their debut as Tom Climent. But then again, few young Irish artists begin their painting career by offering his kind of stirring exuberance. Within a year of graduating from Cork’s Crawford College of Art andContinue reading “Robert O’Byrne’s essay on Tom Climent for the Dictionary of Living Irish Artists | 2009”

Alannah Hopkin | Representing Art in Ireland | The Fenton Gallery Book | 2008 Tom Climent can create spectacularly dramatic paintings. With a characteristic and impressive use of chiaroscuro, areas of darkness are counter-balanced by vibrant colour. For him, the process of painting is both spontaneous and meditative, informed by his knowledge of art historyContinue reading “Alannah Hopkin’s essay on Tom Climent for Representing Art in Ireland, The Fenton Gallery Book | 2008”

Vera Ryan | An Artist in the Painterly Tradition | Essay for Decade ( A retrospective catalogue published in 2006) Tom Climent’s stunning degree show in 1995 showed great promise. Many degree shows do that but not every graduate is able to susain their practice or their promise. Nonetheless, many people were quietly optimistic about Tom andContinue reading “Vera Ryan’s essay; An Artist in the Painterly Tradition, on Tom Climent for Decade ( A retrospective catalogue published in 2006)”

Brian Fallon | Introduction to Decade (A retrospective catalogue published in 2006) TOM CLIMENT is a highly individual artist, still relatively youthful, who is rather out of step with current fashion and is all the better for that. Instead of playing cerebral games with his material, he paints for the love and also – I should sayContinue reading “Brian Fallon’s introduction to Decade (A retrospective catalogue published in 2006)”

Nikki Walsh | Rising Stars | Select Magazine | 2005 Just who will be the big names in tomorrow’s art world? Predicting who will make it in the art world isn’t easy. When we approached Nuala Fenton of the Fenton gallery, Kevin Kavanagh of the Kevin Kavanagh gallery, auctioneer and valuer Ian Whyte and portraitist James HanleyContinue reading “Nikki Walsh’s article Rising Stars (Just who will be the big names in tomorrow’s art world ) in Select Magazine | 2005”

Mark Ewart | Review of New Paintings | Fenton Gallery | The Irish Times | 2003Over a relatively short period of time, Tom Climent has achieved a considerable amount as a painter, picking up a number of high-profile plaudits along the way. What is most striking about Climent’s paintings is the way in which they declare aContinue reading “Mark Ewart’s review of New Paintings at the Fenton Gallery in The Irish Times | 2003”