Taylor Galleries is pleased to present Niks, a solo exhibition of new paintings by gallery artist Pat Harris, running from 13 November to 6 December 2025.
In this exhibition, Harris brings together two complementary bodies of work: a series of oil paintings inspired by the coastline of North Mayo, and a group of large-scale paintings featuring a single flower motif. While these flower paintings mark a new direction in the artist's practice, they remain deeply connected to his experience of the Mayo landscape.
Harris's fascination with the light, space, and profound sense of nothingness that he encounters on long walks through the boglands of North Mayo informs both strands of this exhibition. The flower and landscape motifs stand side by side as testaments to the silvery light and quiet expansiveness of this western terrain. Through these works, Harris renders space, light, and silence as tangible, physical presences in paint.
As with all of his work, Niks reaffirms Harris's profound love of painting and his belief in its capacity to make the invisible visible - to transform sensation, perception, and memory into rich surfaces of pigment and form.
Pat Harris was born in Dublin and studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and the Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Antwerp. From 1986 until 2015 he served as Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp.
He has exhibited widely across Europe, with solo shows at Taylor Galleries, Dublin; Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast; Purdy Hicks, London; De Zwarte Panter, Antwerp; Gallery S65, Aalst; and Valerie Traan Gallery, Antwerp and Ostend.
His work has been included in major exhibitions of Irish art, including In the Time of Shaking at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), and is represented in numerous public collections such as The Arts Council of Ireland, IMMA, Hugh Lane Gallery, and the Office of Public Works (OPW).
In 2008, he was awarded a Doctorate in Fine Art by the University of Antwerp. He is a member of both Aosdána and the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA).