Elizabeth Coyne Biography

Elizabeth Coyne was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1950. She studied art at Darlinghurst College of Art in Sydney between the years 1969 and1972 while at the same time working within the print screening industry.

At this time much of her methods and materials had been influenced from the few years she had spent as a child in Hong Kong. Since then her work has drawn on the influences of realism, with much of her work depicting intricate and detailed styles.

She moved to Ireland in 1979 and later became a founding member of the Artist Association of Ireland in 1985. Her work was chosen to be shown in the ICE (Irish Contemporaries exhibition) and placed in the ICE magazine in 1991. The exhibition was organised as part of the Artangle ’91 programme during Dublin’s year as European City of Culture.

She also joined the Visual Artists of Ireland in 2000, and has since concentrated on painting using oil, acrylic, water colour and ink. She has exhibited her work around galleries such as The Royal Hibernian Academy Gallagher Gallery, The Bad Art gallery, The Siptu gallery and permanent exhibition in Maynooth Library. Elizabeth has exhibited regularly since the mid-1980s, especially in Dublin at The Royal Hibernian Academy Gallagher Gallery and also in Milan.

Her time living in Dublin City between the years 1988 and 1995 meant that much of the content of her artwork has most memorably been seen in a series of highly successful works of Dublin’s sociological and economic conditions. Presently living in Meath, she is married to Michael Coyne, a Vietnam veteran who recorded footage of his time as a solider. This rare archive footage inspired her to create a series of works based on the footage.

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