Terry McAllister (b.1964)

Pond (2011)

Terry McAllister was born in Portglenone in 1964 and has worked as a professional artist in Belfast since graduating in Fine Art from the University of Ulster’s College of Art in 1990. He was a founder member of the Emperor’s New Clothes Group and is a long-standing member of QSS Studios & Gallery, Belfast.

His works have been shown in group and individual exhibitions in Ireland and abroad. These include EVA, Limerick; ‘Open Water’, Belfast / Bay Area, California Exchange, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Archeus Fine Art, London; ‘West’ at The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; ‘Heal’ at Queens University Belfast, the Royal Ulster Academy and Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibitions and the Royal Academy Summer Show. He had a solo show at the Naughton Gallery at Queens University Belfast in autumn 2015.

His work is included in the collections of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, as well as private collections in Ireland, the UK and abroad.

This piece, entitled Pond represents McAllister’s work with the landscape. Developed from close cropped images of clouds, trees and water it has been carried out at a scale which reveals the inherent physical patterns underlying the apparently random nature of landscape composition, conferring the images with an abstract quality. At this level, it becomes evident that these details are unique, complex, intriguing and worthy of closer attention.