Blaise Drummond was born in Liverpool in 1967 and lives in County Longford, Ireland. He graduated from the National College of Art and Design (Dublin) in 1994 with First Class Honours in Fine Art Painting and Art History and received an M.A. in Fine Art Painting at the Chelsea College of Art in London four years later. He has had solo exhibitions: in Aliceday (Brussels), Galerie Loevenbruck (Paris), Andrew Mummery Gallery (London), Rubicon Gallery, (Dublin), the Castlefield Gallery (Manchester), Stedelijk Museum (Belgium) and the Crawford Municipal Gallery of Art, (Cork). He has also participated in group shows with the Ikon Gallery (Birmingham), Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), the Bluecoat Gallery (Liverpool) and many more, and was selected twice for the John Moores exhibitions in the Walker Art Gallery, (Liverpool) and in the 'Utopias' show at the Douglas Hyde Gallery (Dublin).

Drummond's paintings, whether seen as a series or in isolation, explore the tenuous relationship between nature and culture. The artist perceives the landscape with a fresh eye that does not seek out ‘nature's bounty’, but instead focuses on what is really there, altered and revised by modern culture. Cricket grounds, picnic areas, and natural woodlands are represented as sterile areas yet are not devoid of beauty. The artist finds an exactness and comfort in this preprocessed environment. In his world, Blaise captures a world of genetic engineering and chemical alterations, but one in which the tension between repetition and deviation creates its own excitement. The result is a smoothly seductive body of work that revels in the new order of things and captivates the viewer with a vision of refinement and precision.

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