David Crone RHA RUA

David Crone was born in Belfast in 1937. He studied sculpture at the Belfast College of Art from 1956 but turned to painting in the 1960s. He went on to teach at Ulster College. He gained several awards, including an Arts Council of Northern Ireland travel scholarship to Europe in 1964. A retrospective of his work was held at the Ulster Museum in 1995.

Since 1985, Crone has been lecturing in the Belfast College of Art. His exhibitions include the Tom Caldwell Gallery, the Northern Ireland Arts Council and the Hendricks and Kerlin Galleries in His work in represented in public collections, including the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the Arts Council of Ireland and the Ulster Museum. Crone was elected a member of the RHA in 2005

On Crone’s work, Michael Longley wrote, ‘Nowadays much of the landscape (and townscape) painting in this country celebrates an Ireland that never really existed. It consoles too easily and stops us thinking. In his energetic engagement with the world, Crone defies such complacency. A thundery disquietude hangs over even his brightest creations. His watchful, edgy, ambiguous work suggests that everything – from wild flower to boulder, from graffito to stone cross – is provisional. David Crone’s wonderful paintings commemorate the interim.’