Robert Ballagh
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Robert Ballagh (born 22 September 1943) is an Irish artist. He was born in Dublin and graduated from the Dublin Institute of Technology. He is both a painter and designer. His painting style was strongly influenced by pop art and his paintings are often playful and didactic.
In 1991, he co-ordinated the 75th anniversary commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising. Interviewed for a special feature that was published in the Irish Times on the 90th anniversary, he related that this had caused him to be harassed by the Special Branch of the Garda Siochána.
Ballagh represented Ireland at the 1969 Paris Biennale. Among the theatre sets he has designed are sets for Riverdance, Samuel Beckett's Endgame (1991) and Oscar Wilde's Salomé (1998). He has also designed over 70 Irish postage stamps and the last series of Irish banknotes, "Series C", before the introduction of the euro. He is a member of Aosdána.
[edit] Work in Collections
- The National Gallery of Ireland
- The Ulster Museum
- The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery
- The Albrecht Dürer House, Nuremberg
- Trinity College, Dublin
[edit] External links
- Aosdána short biography
- 1916 - What does it mean to you?, in the Weekend Review of the Irish Times, 15 April 2006
