Rossnaree Art School - Florence Art School,Rosnaree, Slane, Co. Meath, Ireland

Twenty-five year old Dublin-based artist Sam Horler is a rising talent in Irish art. Graduating from the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art & Design with an Honours degree in Fine Art in 2007, Sam has been developing an extensive body of work in various mediums.

In an in depth article about him in the Irish Times, leading art critic Gemma Tipton wrote; What’s interesting about painter Sam Horler is not so much that he comes from a long line of artists that goes back to Maud Gonne – it’s the quality of the work…Most people have their own opinions about the relative merits of the work of artists such as Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst, but every now and then an artist comes to your attention, and you think: this person’s really got something. That’s what I thought when I met Sam Horler.

Regularly collaborating with artists across various disciplines, he was commissioned by Irish film-maker Louis Lentin to create drawings for his film, Grandpa Speak to Me in Russian and works regularly with film artist Paddy Jolley. He was part of a team of two responsible for the execution of a major commission for a monument at the Irish Cultural Institute in Paris by the pre-eminent sculptor Imogen Stuart. He has taken part in several group shows throughout Dublin, most recently he was invited to show at the 180th RHA annual show.

He is currently working in his Clarendon Street studio for his second solo show for late 2010.

To read an interview with Horler in The Irish Times by leading art critic Gemma Tipton click here