Donald Teskey was born in Co Limerick in 1956. After graduating from the Limerick College of Art & Design with a Diploma in Fine Art in 1978 he began a successful career in Fine Art, exhibiting throughout Ireland as well as in the USA, UK, Germany and Canada. His talent has been rewarded on many occasions; as early as 1981 he received a prize for drawing at the Limerick EV+A and in 1995 he was presented with the Fergus O'Ryan Award at the RHA Annual Exhibition. This pattern has continued to
the present day with residency programmes in Cill Rialaig, Kerry and the Josef Albers Foundation, CT, USA.
He was elected an Academician of the RHA in 2003 and a member of Aosdana in 2006. His work is included in many prominent public and private collections in Ireland and worldwide. Among the public /corporate collections his work is to be found in The Arts Council, IMMA, OPW, the University of Limerick and Irish Life Assurance to name but a few.
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