Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Terence Haggerty

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: Essex, UK
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002
More: www.terryhaggerty.org
Terence Haggerty is a British painter. He has exhibited widely at galleries and museums around the world, including Sikkema Jenkins, New York; Max Hetzler, Berlin; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Aldrich Museum, Connecticut; and PS1, Long Island City. Commissions include wall drawings for Dallas Cowboys Stadium, Munich Re, London, and private collections in the U.S. and Germany. Haggerty is the recipient of several awards including the For-Site foundation Award (2009), John Anson Kittredge Award (2003); and the NatWest Art Prize (1999). The concept of the trompe-l’oeil; the interplay between reality and illusion, has always fascinated artists. In this way, with the simple gesture of curving lines, Haggerty is able to create complex illusions, garnering both volume and depth. The artist carefully considers ambiguous forms and likenesses, to familiar indicators of space such as ledges, edges, corner and gaps. Nevertheless, the viewer is not only drawn to Haggerty's paintings as a result of the suggestion of plasticity, but also owing to their cool, smooth, machine-like surface perfection.

Studios

Firth

Terence Haggerty worked in the Firth studio.

Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…

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