Cecil Noel Sheridan was an Irish painter, performance artist, installation artist and actor. He was a member of Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists.
Occupation
visual artist, etcher
Citizenship
Ireland
Born
1936
Died
July 12, 2006
Overview
Cecil Noel Sheridan (12 December 1936 – 12 July 2006) was an Irish painter, performance artist, installation artist and actor. He was a member of Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists.
Early life
Sheridan was born in Dublin in 1936. His father was Cecil Brinsley Sheridan, a noted comic actor and panto dame at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin. Noel attended Synge Street CBS and worked for the Irish Independent; he studied for a Bachelor of Communications at Trinity College at night, and began to perform with the Trinity Players.
Career
He was also an amateur artist, painting abstract landscapes, his work appearing from 1958 in the annual exhibitions of Living Art and at the Paris Biennale in 1960; he represented Ireland at the 1962 UNESCO Convention of young painters in Paris and won the Carroll Prize for Painting in 1965 and 1969.
