{{Short description|Irish visual artist (1936–2006)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox artist | name = Noel Sheridan | image = | image_size = <!-- if image is smaller than 250px --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Cecil Noel Sheridan | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1936|12|12}} | birth_place = Dublin, Irish Free State | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2006|7|12|1936|12|12}} | death_place = Perth, Western Australia, Australia | other_names = | alma_mater = Trinity College, Dublin<br />Columbia University | parents = Cecil Brinsley Sheridan<br />Ann 'Nan' (née Doyle) | elected = Aosdána | known_for = painting, acting | notable_works = | style = Landscape painting, abstract art | movement = | spouse = Liz Murphy | partner = | children =5 | website = | embedded = <!-- For embedding other infoboxes in this infobox --> }} '''Cecil Noel Sheridan''' (12 December 1936 – 12 July 2006) was an Irish painter, performance artist, installation artist and actor.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/versatile-and-charismatic-presence-in-art-scenes-of-two-countries-1.1031166|title=Versatile and charismatic presence in art scenes of two countries|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nival.ie/collections/artists-database/view/artist/name/sheridan-noel/|title=National Irish Visual Arts Library: Sheridan, Noel|website=www.nival.ie}}</ref> He was a member of Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dkit.ie/artgallery/artist/view/noel-sheridan|title=DkIT Art Gallery|website=www.dkit.ie}}</ref>

==Early life== Sheridan was born in Dublin in 1936.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KMiixwEACAAJ&q=%22Noel+Sheridan%22|title=Important Irish Art: Including Noel Sheridan (1936-2006) - the Studio Sale|date=27 February 2007|publisher=Whyte's|via=Google Books}}</ref> 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.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/sheridan-noel-a9483|title=Sheridan, Noel &#124; Dictionary of Irish Biography|website=www.dib.ie}}</ref>

==Career== [[File:Jeunes peintres du monde à Compiègne the list of the artists 1961 OCT 21-22 3.jpg|thumb|Page from the brochure of the Young Painters of the World residency programme, where Sheridan's work ''Blanc & Orange'' is listed.]] 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stoneyroadpress.com/artists/noel-sheridan/|title=Stoney Road Press &#124; Noel Sheridan|website=www.stoneyroadpress.com}}</ref>

Sheridan worked as a gallery attendant in the Museum of Modern Art (New York), painting by night, and got a scholarship for Columbia University in 1967 for a masters in fine art.<ref name="auto"/>

He was from 1980 to 2002 director of the National College of Art and Design (NCAD, Dublin).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pr8cEAAAQBAJ&q=%22Noel+Sheridan+&pg=PA255|title=Art and the Nation State: The Reception of Modern Art in Ireland|first=Róisín|last=Kennedy|date=27 March 2021|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9781789622355|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/paintings-by-noel-sheridan-1.1116717|title=Paintings By Noel Sheridan|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref> He was also a committee member of Rosc and was elected to Aosdána.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://imma.ie/collection/goodbye-old-paint/|title=Goodbye Old Paint - Noel Sheridan|website=IMMA}}</ref>

Sheridan also worked in Australia for many years, as art critic on South Australia's ''Sunday Mail'' 1977–80 and as Director of the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide from 1975 to 1980 and won the emeritus medal of the Australia Council for the Arts in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://imma.ie/artists/noel-sheridan/|title=Noel Sheridan|website=IMMA}}</ref>

==Personal life==

Sheridan was married to Liz Murphy;<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6rN6OLNrycIC&dq=%22Noel+Sheridan%22&pg=PT170|title=Brett: A portrait of Brett Whiteley by his sister|first=Frannie|last=Hopkirk|date=1 February 2013|publisher=Pan|isbn=9781743341339|via=Google Books}}</ref> they had 5 children. He died in 2006.<ref name="auto1"/> Paul Durcan wrote a poem in his honour after his death.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5Mh60thFC4C&dq=%22Noel+Sheridan%22&pg=PT40|title=The Laughter of Mothers|first=Paul|last=Durcan|date=18 January 2011|publisher=Random House|isbn=9781409017653|via=Google Books}}</ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sheridan, Noel}} Category:Irish male painters Category:Aosdána members Category:Painters from Dublin (city) Category:Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Category:Columbia University alumni Category:Columbia University School of the Arts alumni Category:Irish landscape painters Category:2006 deaths Category:1936 births