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Brian Mooney
was born in Peak Hill, NSW in 1930, then moved to Hay, where
he spent his childhood until the outbreak of World War II. The
family then moved to Sydney and in 1953, studied in Julian
Ashtons art school for a year, studying drawing under the
guidance of John Pasmore and Henry Gibbons. Brian began to
paint seriously in the 1960s in Melbourne, where he was also
very involved in playing Irish and Australian folk music.
In 1965, Brian travelled to Ireland and
stayed twenty-one years in Galway, where he got married and
raised a family of four sons. During this time, Brian had a
number of successful exhibitions in Galway, and toured Europe
and England on eleven occasions singing and playing folk and
traditional songs.
Since returning to Australia in 1986, Brian
have had shows in Melbourne and Tasmania and was invited in
2001 by the Galway Arts Centre, to exhibit his Irish and
Australian paintings during the prestigious Galway Arts
Festival.
In 2004, Brian was invited by the internal committee of the
Florence Biennale Art Festival to exhibit his paintings at
this festival. Brian also had an exhibition at the Charles
Smith Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne in March, 2005, which
enabled him to go on a 6 week painting trip to the Flinders
Ranges with several paintings done for his new exhibition
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