Born in Worcester in 1949, Martin Gale moved to Ireland at a young age and studied painting and drawing at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin from 1968 to 1973. In 1982 Gale was elected a member of Aosdána and in 1996 was made a full member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. He is currently a Board member of the National Gallery. He represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale in 1980 and his paintings have been included in several major surveys of contemporary and 20th century Irish art. A large-scale retrospective of his work travelled from the Royal Hibernian Academy to the Ulster Museum in 2004-05. In 2013 Gale was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Art from NUI Maynooth and earlier this year he was the recipient of the RHA Award for a Senior Artist at the 184th Annual Exhibition.

Public Collections

NUI Maynooth.

National Gallery of Ireland (print collection).

ESB commission 10 works celebrating 40th anniversary of inauguration of Turlough Hill power generating station.

The Arts Council/AnChomhairle Ealaion

Bank of Ireland, Dublin

Investment Bank of Ireland, Dublin

Dublin City Gallery, Hugh lane

AIB Group

Office of Public Works, Dublin

PJ. Carroll &Co. Ltd. Dundalk

ESB Moneypoint, Co.Clare

European Investment Bank, Luxembourg

National Self-Portrait Collection, Limerick

Municipal Gallery, Waterford

Waterford Institute of Technology

Athlone Institute of Technology

Bord na Mona

First National Building Society

Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork

European Parliament, Strasbourg

Wesley College, Dublin

Irish Farm Centre

Kildare Co. Council

IMI

Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

Ulster Bank

Permanent TSB

Dundalk Institute of Technology

Irish Museum of Modern Art

Department of Finance & Personnel, Belfast

University College Cork