Royal Academy of Arts

Members in Focus: Mick Rooney RA

First Thoughts - Finished Works

30 Oct 2014 - 23 Apr 2015

Mick Rooney RA
The Nestling, 2011.
Etching and gouache. 14 x 11cm.
Mick Rooney RA
Young Unicorn, 2012.
Two plate etching. 16 x 11 cm.
Mick Rooney RA
Nocturnal Schoolboy, 2007.
Gouache/Tempera on paper. 25 x 15 cm.
Mick Rooney RA
Lunar Picnic.
Oil on canvas. 75 x 99 cm.
Mick Rooney RA
La Pescadora.
Oil on canvas. 14 x 18 cm.
Mick Rooney RA
Daniel, 2012.
Etching and gouache. 10 x 15 cm.
Mick Rooney RA
Casino Life.
Pencil on paper. 56 x 42 cm.
Mick Rooney RA
The Coming of Spring.
A/P two plate etching/Gouache. 64 x 50 cm.
Mick Rooney RA
Private Passions, 2013.
Gouache on paper. 20 x 15 cm.
Mick Rooney RA
Playing the Giraffe, 1996.
Gouache on paper. 20 x 15 cm.
MEMBERS IN FOCUS: MICK ROONEY RA
First Thoughts - Finished Works
30 October 2014 — 23 April 2015

This exhibition is the first in a new series celebrating the work of our Royal Academicians. Mick Rooney RA describes the selection as ‘the snippets that come out of the everyday’.

Born in 1944, Mick Rooney RA studied at both the Royal College of Art and British School of Rome. Since then he has taught and exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, receiving numerous awards for his work.

This exhibition presents a diverse range of drawings, prints and key paintings from the past 35 years showing the extraordinary breadth of Rooney’s practice. He describes the selection as ‘the snippets that come out of the everyday’. The works, many of them sketchbook drawings, explore subjects ranging from intimate family studies to witty musings upon life in general. Rooney was elected a Royal Academician in 1991. He lives and works in Charlbury, Oxfordshire.

This exhibition is the first of a new series celebrating the work of Royal Academicians, entitled ‘Members in Focus’.