Thomas Brezing
Born 1969 in Herrenberg, Germany
Lives and works in Co. Dublin, Ireland
(email: thomasbrezing@gmail.com)
List of Solo Exhibitions
2018 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Anvil Dust (September 7th - 28th)
2018 Custom House Gallery & Studios, Westport Out Too Far (Wishing Too Many Things)
2016 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin Jonah And The Whale
2016 Seamus Ennis Arts Centre, Co. Dublin I Am A Painter I Love You
2015 Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo Why Stop Dreaming When You Wake Up
2015 Engage Longford, The Road Is Paved With Good Intentions
2015 Drogheda Arts Centre, Co. Louth The Road Is Paved With Good Intentions
2014 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin The Art Of Finding A Remote Place
2012 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, High Violet
2011 Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda, The Art of Failure isn't hard to Master
2009 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, All of this could be true
2008 Draiocht, Blanchardstown, Dublin New Works on Paper
2008 Seahorse Gallery, Co. Dublin Heaven was in the Sky
2007 The Lab, Dublin Seven Miles Above the Earth
2007 Access To Arts Gallery, Dublin Perished Futures - Found Pasts
2006 Ard Bia Gallery, Galway The World is over there
2005 Basement Gallery, Dundalk Is it another day?
2005 Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Gallery, Dublin Remember when we were older?
2002 South Tipperary Arts Centre, Something that could have lived
2002 Civic Theatre Gallery, Tallaght, Dublin Women and Children first
2002 Drogheda Arts Centre, County Louth Women and Children first
2001 Basement Gallery, Dundalk The Art of Falling Apart
Two Person Shows
2016 Lapua Art Museum, Finland, Father, with Klaus Effern
2016 The Old Church Of Isokyro, Finland, Father, with Klaus Effern
2007 Oriel Contemporary Gallery, Hay-On-Wye, Wales Flaw with Alan Crosby
2002 Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin with Maura Murtagh
1996 Seminarturnhalle, Nagold, Germany Leiden, with Emmajane Watson
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2018 Gathering, Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon, curated by Paul McKenna
2018 Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda, curated by Aoife Ruane
2017 Einblattdrucke, PalmArtPress Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017 Molesworth Artist's, Lavit Gallery, Cork, with Vera Klute, Gabhann Dunne, Helen Blake, Jennifer Trouton
2017 Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, RHA, Dublin, curated by Patrick Murphy and Aoife Ruane
2017 So Here's The Thing, Westport Arts Festival, Collaboration, D.Newton & G.Robinson & T.Brezing
2017 Loughshinny Boathouse Launch exhibition, Fingal, Co. Dublin, curated by Denise Reddy
2017 Soundwaves/Artwaves, Skerries Mills, Skerries, Co. Dublin, curated by Deirdre Glenfield
2017 Memory Has a Pulse, Engage, Longford, with Gary Robinson, Sean Cotter & Thomas Brezing
2017 Memory Has A Pulse, Artists-Run Gallery 126 & NUI Galway Art Gallery, Galway Arts Festival
2017 Stretch, Basement Gallery, An Tain Arts Centre, Dundalk, Co Louth, curated by Heather Cassidy
2016 Waste Not, Want Not, Lourdes Youth & Community Services, Dublin
2016 Waste Not, Want Not, Airfield Estate, Dundrum, Dublin,
2016 Imago Mundi Project, Luciano Benetton exhibited Internationally. Curated by Ciara Gibbons and Sean Kissane
2016 Waste Not, Want Not, Millfield Shopping Centre, Balbriggan, Co.Dublin,
2015 Finders And Keepers, OPW Collection, Lexicon Municipal Gallery, Dun Laoghaire, curated by Claire Halpin
2015 VUE, National Contemporary Art Fair, Dublin, represented by Molesworth Gallery
2015 Artwaves, Skerries Mills, Soundwaves Festival, Co.Dublin
2014 VUE, National Contemporary Art Fair, Dublin, represented by Molesworth Gallery
2014 Foundation14, Battery+, Tullamore, Co.Offaly, curated by Brendan Fox
2014 One Hundred + Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, curated by Aoife Ruane
2013 Voltus Contemporary Portraits, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, curated by Ronan Lyons
2013 Royal Hibernian Annual Show, Dublin (invited artist) & 2012, 2010, 2009 (invited artist) 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
2012 7.42 Cable Factory Helsinki, Finland - with Mary Kelly, Abigail O'Brien & Sean Cotter
2012 7.42 Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda, with Mary Kelly, Abigail O'Brien & Sean Cotter
2012 Additions, National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland, University of Limerick, Bourne Vincent Gallery
2011 7.42 Lapua Art Museum, Finland, with Mary Kelly, Abigail O'Brien & Sean Cotter
2011 Altered Images touring show cont., Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
2011 International Exhibition of Emerging Art, Art Fair, Chicago (also 2010)
2010 Assembly Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda, curated by Aoife Ruane
2010 Altered Images Ballina Arts Centre, Clonmel County Museum, & Irish Museum Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin
2010 Kilkenny Arts Festival, Blackbird Gallery (featured artist)
2010 Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon
2010 Iontas Arts Centre, Monaghan, curated by Ronan Lyons
2009 Eigse Arts Festival, Carlow
2009 The Rough and the Smooth Riverbank Arts Centre, Kildare with Sheila Rennick and Hugh McCarthy
2009 Dreissig Mal Dreissig Galerie Merkle, Stuttgart, Germany
2008 Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin,
2008 The Plinian Sponge, maybe Ashford Gallery, RHA, Touring Exhibition curated by Mark St. John Ellis
2008 Boyle Arts Festival, King House Museum, Roscommon
2008 Eigse Arts Festival Carlow, selected by Patrick Murphy RHA
2007 Vangard Gallery, Cork
2007 Summer show Hillsboro Fine Arts, Dublin
2006 Balbriggan Arts Festival, (also 2004, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998)
2006 Central Bank Exhibition, Dublin, curated by Patricia Clyne-Kelly
2005 Art Cologne, Art Fair, Germany, presented by Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Duesseldorf
2005 A Moment in Time Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
2005 Art Forum Berlin, Art Fair, Berlin, Germany, presented by Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Duesseldorf
2005 End of year show Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin curated by Mark St. John Ellis
2005 Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Duesseldorf, Germany
2004 After Sunlight Ardgillan Castle, Skerries, Co. Dublin
2004 Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
2004 Cross Gallery, Dublin
2002 Conclusions Toradh Gallery, Duleek, Co. Meath
2002 Renegade La Perseveranza, Gent, Belgium
2002 Connections Glor Gallery, Ennis
2002 Members and invited artists Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin
2002 20/20 Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
2001 Connections Civic Theatre Gallery, Tallaght, Dublin
2001 A presence times 3 Arthouse, Dublin
2001 The road less travelled Tinahely Courthouse Arts Centre
2001 Baa baa black sheep Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork
2001 Tense present West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen
2001 It will get you in the end Civic Theatre Gallery, Tallaght, Dublin
2000 Three do tango Signal Arts Centre, Bray
2000 Go forth and multiply Windmill Arts, Tralee
2000 Debut defection Basement Gallery, Dundalk
2000 9 times different Drogheda Arts Centre
1999 Salon 99 Pallas Studios, Dublin
1999 Goethe Institute, Dublin (also 1998)
1999 Eigse Arts Festival, Carlow
Collections
Fingal County Council Collection (2017)
Mason, Hayes & Curran Collection (2016)
Office Of Public Works (2014 & 2005)
National Self Portrait Collection, Limerick (2012)
Lapua Art Museum Finland Collection (2012)
Drogheda Arts Centre Collection (2012)
Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Gallery (2012)
Boyle Civic Collection (2008)
Mayo County Council Collection (2008)
Dundalk District Council (2006 & 2001 & 2000)
Society for Contemporary Arts in Ireland (2005)
Curatorial Projects
2016 Waste Not, Want Not, Lourdes Youth & Community Services, Dublin, David Newton, Gary Robinson etc.
2016 Waste Not, Want Not, Airfield Estate, Dundrum, Dublin, with G. Robinson, Cris Newmann, Carol O'Connor etc.
2016 Waste Not, Want Not, Millfield Shopping Centre, Balbriggan, Co.Dublin, with Aine Ivers, Dave West, J Voda, etc.
Awards/Residencies
Fingal Artists Support Scheme Award (2018)
Arts Council Visual Bursary Award (2017)
Artist-in-residence, Creative Spark, Dundalk (2017)
Residency, Boathouse Studio, Loughshinny, Co. Dublin, Fingal Arts Office (2017)
Fingal Artists Support Scheme Award (2016)
Residency, Boathouse Studio, Loughshinny, Co. Dublin, Fingal Arts Office (2015)
Fingal Artists Support Scheme Award (2015)
Per Cent For Art Scheme, Gaelscoil Bhaile Brigin (2014)
Residency, Lapua Art Museum, Finland (2014)
Arts Council Travel & Training Award (2014)
Arts Council Travel and Training Award (2010)
Residency, Lapua Art Museum, Finland (2010)
Arts Council Travel and Mobility Award (2006)
Residency Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co. Monaghan, Ireland (2002)
Arts Council Studio Rental Assistance Award (2001)
Bibliography
Rory O'Byrne, catalogue introduction, Anvil Dust, published by Molesworth Gallery, Sept. 2018
Visual Artists News Sheet, March - April 2018, Career Development, page 22
Peter O'Neill, book essay, Out Too Far (Wishing Too Many Things) 2017
Thomas Brezing at the Molesworth Gallery, A New Ulster, Issue no 50, Nov. 2016, by Peter O'Neill
Einblattdruck, No 110, Palmartpress Berlin, with writer Peter O'Neill, September 2016
Imago Mundi, An Image From Ireland, 2016, hardback book
Isyyden hämärästä - Klaus Effern ja Thomas Brezing by Pia Timberg, April 2016
Tero Hautamaki, Ilkka, Thomas Brezing & Klaus Effern 13. February 2016
Tarja Kojola, Lapuan Sanomat, Thomas Brezing & Klaus Effern 11. February 2016
Esa Honkimaki & Artturi Kivineva, catalogue essays, Father, January 2016
Susan Campbell, The Visual Artist's News Sheet, issue 2, March/April 2015
Wall Street International, January 2015, http://wsimag.com/art/13138-thomas-brezing
VOX Magazine, Ireland, issue 25, page 20 & 21, January - March 2015
Peripheral ARTeries, November issue, online art magazine, page 40 - 52, Nov. 2013
Elena Goukassian, Carpet Man, USA Sculpture magazine, November 2013 issue
Christodoulos Makris, Carpet Man, The Visual Artists News Sheet, July/Aug 2013
Additions 2012, exhibition catalogue, Limerick University
Niall MacMonagle, What lies beneath, Sunday Independent, 12. April 2012
Gemma Tipton, Between the darkness and the light, Irish Times, 18. April 2012
Aidan Dunne, Gritty paintings and saintly things, Irish Times, 1. December 2011
Cliodhna Shaffrey, catalogue (hardback) essay, The Art of Failure Isn’t Hard To Master, published by Highlanes Gallery, November 2011,
Katherine Waugh, essay for 7.42 show, Lapua Art Museum, Finland
Cristin Leach, Sunday Times Magazine, on Altered Images, May 2011
Book cover, Spitting out the Mother Tongue, author Christodoulos Makris, Wurm Press 2011
Shift In Perspective, catalogue, Arts & Disability Ireland, published 2010
Cliodhna Shaffrey, catalogue essay, The Organisation of Hope, published by Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2009
Dreissig Mal Dreissig, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Merkle Stuttgart, 2009
All of this could be true, exhibition brochure, Molesworth Gallery, 2009
RHA, Ashford Gallery, exhibition catalogue (hardback), The Plinian Sponge, Maybe? Forword by Mark St. John Ellis
The Lab Gallery, 40 Exhibitions 2006 -08, hardback catalogue, edited by Gemma Tipton
Patrick Graham, catalogue essay, Heaven was in the Sky, exhibition catalogue, 2008
Dave Boland, Brezing in Balbriggan, Sunday Tribute, 9. March 2008
Community Voice, Hope is a dangerous thing, interview with Thomas Brezing, 11. – 24 January 2008
Lucy Cotter, catalogue essay & interview, Nation without Friends, 2007
Seahorse Gallery, catalogue, Spring 2007 Exhibition
Seahorse Gallery, hardback catalogue, Opening Exhibition 2006
RHA, Ashford Gallery, Emerging Artists, catalogue, 2005
RHA, Ashford Gallery, brochure, for Remember when we were older? 2005
Aidan Dunne, Child’s Play, Irish Times, 12. January 2005
John Phillip Murray, review for website, Something that could have lived, Sept 2002
Janet Naclia, CIRCA Art Magazine, summer 2001 issue
Noelle Harrison, RTE website, The Road less travelled, 20.9.2001
Rebecca Kelly, Fingal Independent, Aug. 2001
Gemma Tipton, CIRCA Art Magazine 2000
Aoife Desmond, Irish Art Bulletin, Sunlight Studios 1999
Rudiger Saile, Der Gesellschafter, Nagold, Germany, 26. August 1996
email: thomasbrezing@gmail.com
Born 1969 in Herrenberg, Germany
Lives and works in Co. Dublin, Ireland
(email: thomasbrezing@gmail.com)
List of Solo Exhibitions
2018 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Anvil Dust (September 7th - 28th)
2018 Custom House Gallery & Studios, Westport Out Too Far (Wishing Too Many Things)
2016 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin Jonah And The Whale
2016 Seamus Ennis Arts Centre, Co. Dublin I Am A Painter I Love You
2015 Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo Why Stop Dreaming When You Wake Up
2015 Engage Longford, The Road Is Paved With Good Intentions
2015 Drogheda Arts Centre, Co. Louth The Road Is Paved With Good Intentions
2014 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin The Art Of Finding A Remote Place
2012 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, High Violet
2011 Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda, The Art of Failure isn't hard to Master
2009 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, All of this could be true
2008 Draiocht, Blanchardstown, Dublin New Works on Paper
2008 Seahorse Gallery, Co. Dublin Heaven was in the Sky
2007 The Lab, Dublin Seven Miles Above the Earth
2007 Access To Arts Gallery, Dublin Perished Futures - Found Pasts
2006 Ard Bia Gallery, Galway The World is over there
2005 Basement Gallery, Dundalk Is it another day?
2005 Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Gallery, Dublin Remember when we were older?
2002 South Tipperary Arts Centre, Something that could have lived
2002 Civic Theatre Gallery, Tallaght, Dublin Women and Children first
2002 Drogheda Arts Centre, County Louth Women and Children first
2001 Basement Gallery, Dundalk The Art of Falling Apart
Two Person Shows
2016 Lapua Art Museum, Finland, Father, with Klaus Effern
2016 The Old Church Of Isokyro, Finland, Father, with Klaus Effern
2007 Oriel Contemporary Gallery, Hay-On-Wye, Wales Flaw with Alan Crosby
2002 Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin with Maura Murtagh
1996 Seminarturnhalle, Nagold, Germany Leiden, with Emmajane Watson
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2018 Gathering, Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon, curated by Paul McKenna
2018 Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda, curated by Aoife Ruane
2017 Einblattdrucke, PalmArtPress Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017 Molesworth Artist's, Lavit Gallery, Cork, with Vera Klute, Gabhann Dunne, Helen Blake, Jennifer Trouton
2017 Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, RHA, Dublin, curated by Patrick Murphy and Aoife Ruane
2017 So Here's The Thing, Westport Arts Festival, Collaboration, D.Newton & G.Robinson & T.Brezing
2017 Loughshinny Boathouse Launch exhibition, Fingal, Co. Dublin, curated by Denise Reddy
2017 Soundwaves/Artwaves, Skerries Mills, Skerries, Co. Dublin, curated by Deirdre Glenfield
2017 Memory Has a Pulse, Engage, Longford, with Gary Robinson, Sean Cotter & Thomas Brezing
2017 Memory Has A Pulse, Artists-Run Gallery 126 & NUI Galway Art Gallery, Galway Arts Festival
2017 Stretch, Basement Gallery, An Tain Arts Centre, Dundalk, Co Louth, curated by Heather Cassidy
2016 Waste Not, Want Not, Lourdes Youth & Community Services, Dublin
2016 Waste Not, Want Not, Airfield Estate, Dundrum, Dublin,
2016 Imago Mundi Project, Luciano Benetton exhibited Internationally. Curated by Ciara Gibbons and Sean Kissane
2016 Waste Not, Want Not, Millfield Shopping Centre, Balbriggan, Co.Dublin,
2015 Finders And Keepers, OPW Collection, Lexicon Municipal Gallery, Dun Laoghaire, curated by Claire Halpin
2015 VUE, National Contemporary Art Fair, Dublin, represented by Molesworth Gallery
2015 Artwaves, Skerries Mills, Soundwaves Festival, Co.Dublin
2014 VUE, National Contemporary Art Fair, Dublin, represented by Molesworth Gallery
2014 Foundation14, Battery+, Tullamore, Co.Offaly, curated by Brendan Fox
2014 One Hundred + Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, curated by Aoife Ruane
2013 Voltus Contemporary Portraits, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, curated by Ronan Lyons
2013 Royal Hibernian Annual Show, Dublin (invited artist) & 2012, 2010, 2009 (invited artist) 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
2012 7.42 Cable Factory Helsinki, Finland - with Mary Kelly, Abigail O'Brien & Sean Cotter
2012 7.42 Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda, with Mary Kelly, Abigail O'Brien & Sean Cotter
2012 Additions, National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland, University of Limerick, Bourne Vincent Gallery
2011 7.42 Lapua Art Museum, Finland, with Mary Kelly, Abigail O'Brien & Sean Cotter
2011 Altered Images touring show cont., Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
2011 International Exhibition of Emerging Art, Art Fair, Chicago (also 2010)
2010 Assembly Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda, curated by Aoife Ruane
2010 Altered Images Ballina Arts Centre, Clonmel County Museum, & Irish Museum Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin
2010 Kilkenny Arts Festival, Blackbird Gallery (featured artist)
2010 Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon
2010 Iontas Arts Centre, Monaghan, curated by Ronan Lyons
2009 Eigse Arts Festival, Carlow
2009 The Rough and the Smooth Riverbank Arts Centre, Kildare with Sheila Rennick and Hugh McCarthy
2009 Dreissig Mal Dreissig Galerie Merkle, Stuttgart, Germany
2008 Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin,
2008 The Plinian Sponge, maybe Ashford Gallery, RHA, Touring Exhibition curated by Mark St. John Ellis
2008 Boyle Arts Festival, King House Museum, Roscommon
2008 Eigse Arts Festival Carlow, selected by Patrick Murphy RHA
2007 Vangard Gallery, Cork
2007 Summer show Hillsboro Fine Arts, Dublin
2006 Balbriggan Arts Festival, (also 2004, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998)
2006 Central Bank Exhibition, Dublin, curated by Patricia Clyne-Kelly
2005 Art Cologne, Art Fair, Germany, presented by Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Duesseldorf
2005 A Moment in Time Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
2005 Art Forum Berlin, Art Fair, Berlin, Germany, presented by Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Duesseldorf
2005 End of year show Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin curated by Mark St. John Ellis
2005 Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Duesseldorf, Germany
2004 After Sunlight Ardgillan Castle, Skerries, Co. Dublin
2004 Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
2004 Cross Gallery, Dublin
2002 Conclusions Toradh Gallery, Duleek, Co. Meath
2002 Renegade La Perseveranza, Gent, Belgium
2002 Connections Glor Gallery, Ennis
2002 Members and invited artists Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin
2002 20/20 Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
2001 Connections Civic Theatre Gallery, Tallaght, Dublin
2001 A presence times 3 Arthouse, Dublin
2001 The road less travelled Tinahely Courthouse Arts Centre
2001 Baa baa black sheep Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork
2001 Tense present West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen
2001 It will get you in the end Civic Theatre Gallery, Tallaght, Dublin
2000 Three do tango Signal Arts Centre, Bray
2000 Go forth and multiply Windmill Arts, Tralee
2000 Debut defection Basement Gallery, Dundalk
2000 9 times different Drogheda Arts Centre
1999 Salon 99 Pallas Studios, Dublin
1999 Goethe Institute, Dublin (also 1998)
1999 Eigse Arts Festival, Carlow
Collections
Fingal County Council Collection (2017)
Mason, Hayes & Curran Collection (2016)
Office Of Public Works (2014 & 2005)
National Self Portrait Collection, Limerick (2012)
Lapua Art Museum Finland Collection (2012)
Drogheda Arts Centre Collection (2012)
Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Gallery (2012)
Boyle Civic Collection (2008)
Mayo County Council Collection (2008)
Dundalk District Council (2006 & 2001 & 2000)
Society for Contemporary Arts in Ireland (2005)
Curatorial Projects
2016 Waste Not, Want Not, Lourdes Youth & Community Services, Dublin, David Newton, Gary Robinson etc.
2016 Waste Not, Want Not, Airfield Estate, Dundrum, Dublin, with G. Robinson, Cris Newmann, Carol O'Connor etc.
2016 Waste Not, Want Not, Millfield Shopping Centre, Balbriggan, Co.Dublin, with Aine Ivers, Dave West, J Voda, etc.
Awards/Residencies
Fingal Artists Support Scheme Award (2018)
Arts Council Visual Bursary Award (2017)
Artist-in-residence, Creative Spark, Dundalk (2017)
Residency, Boathouse Studio, Loughshinny, Co. Dublin, Fingal Arts Office (2017)
Fingal Artists Support Scheme Award (2016)
Residency, Boathouse Studio, Loughshinny, Co. Dublin, Fingal Arts Office (2015)
Fingal Artists Support Scheme Award (2015)
Per Cent For Art Scheme, Gaelscoil Bhaile Brigin (2014)
Residency, Lapua Art Museum, Finland (2014)
Arts Council Travel & Training Award (2014)
Arts Council Travel and Training Award (2010)
Residency, Lapua Art Museum, Finland (2010)
Arts Council Travel and Mobility Award (2006)
Residency Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co. Monaghan, Ireland (2002)
Arts Council Studio Rental Assistance Award (2001)
Bibliography
Rory O'Byrne, catalogue introduction, Anvil Dust, published by Molesworth Gallery, Sept. 2018
Visual Artists News Sheet, March - April 2018, Career Development, page 22
Peter O'Neill, book essay, Out Too Far (Wishing Too Many Things) 2017
Thomas Brezing at the Molesworth Gallery, A New Ulster, Issue no 50, Nov. 2016, by Peter O'Neill
Einblattdruck, No 110, Palmartpress Berlin, with writer Peter O'Neill, September 2016
Imago Mundi, An Image From Ireland, 2016, hardback book
Isyyden hämärästä - Klaus Effern ja Thomas Brezing by Pia Timberg, April 2016
Tero Hautamaki, Ilkka, Thomas Brezing & Klaus Effern 13. February 2016
Tarja Kojola, Lapuan Sanomat, Thomas Brezing & Klaus Effern 11. February 2016
Esa Honkimaki & Artturi Kivineva, catalogue essays, Father, January 2016
Susan Campbell, The Visual Artist's News Sheet, issue 2, March/April 2015
Wall Street International, January 2015, http://wsimag.com/art/13138-thomas-brezing
VOX Magazine, Ireland, issue 25, page 20 & 21, January - March 2015
Peripheral ARTeries, November issue, online art magazine, page 40 - 52, Nov. 2013
Elena Goukassian, Carpet Man, USA Sculpture magazine, November 2013 issue
Christodoulos Makris, Carpet Man, The Visual Artists News Sheet, July/Aug 2013
Additions 2012, exhibition catalogue, Limerick University
Niall MacMonagle, What lies beneath, Sunday Independent, 12. April 2012
Gemma Tipton, Between the darkness and the light, Irish Times, 18. April 2012
Aidan Dunne, Gritty paintings and saintly things, Irish Times, 1. December 2011
Cliodhna Shaffrey, catalogue (hardback) essay, The Art of Failure Isn’t Hard To Master, published by Highlanes Gallery, November 2011,
Katherine Waugh, essay for 7.42 show, Lapua Art Museum, Finland
Cristin Leach, Sunday Times Magazine, on Altered Images, May 2011
Book cover, Spitting out the Mother Tongue, author Christodoulos Makris, Wurm Press 2011
Shift In Perspective, catalogue, Arts & Disability Ireland, published 2010
Cliodhna Shaffrey, catalogue essay, The Organisation of Hope, published by Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2009
Dreissig Mal Dreissig, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Merkle Stuttgart, 2009
All of this could be true, exhibition brochure, Molesworth Gallery, 2009
RHA, Ashford Gallery, exhibition catalogue (hardback), The Plinian Sponge, Maybe? Forword by Mark St. John Ellis
The Lab Gallery, 40 Exhibitions 2006 -08, hardback catalogue, edited by Gemma Tipton
Patrick Graham, catalogue essay, Heaven was in the Sky, exhibition catalogue, 2008
Dave Boland, Brezing in Balbriggan, Sunday Tribute, 9. March 2008
Community Voice, Hope is a dangerous thing, interview with Thomas Brezing, 11. – 24 January 2008
Lucy Cotter, catalogue essay & interview, Nation without Friends, 2007
Seahorse Gallery, catalogue, Spring 2007 Exhibition
Seahorse Gallery, hardback catalogue, Opening Exhibition 2006
RHA, Ashford Gallery, Emerging Artists, catalogue, 2005
RHA, Ashford Gallery, brochure, for Remember when we were older? 2005
Aidan Dunne, Child’s Play, Irish Times, 12. January 2005
John Phillip Murray, review for website, Something that could have lived, Sept 2002
Janet Naclia, CIRCA Art Magazine, summer 2001 issue
Noelle Harrison, RTE website, The Road less travelled, 20.9.2001
Rebecca Kelly, Fingal Independent, Aug. 2001
Gemma Tipton, CIRCA Art Magazine 2000
Aoife Desmond, Irish Art Bulletin, Sunlight Studios 1999
Rudiger Saile, Der Gesellschafter, Nagold, Germany, 26. August 1996
email: thomasbrezing@gmail.com