For all its light-hearted appearance, Patrick O’Reilly’s installation at Centre Culturel Irlandais harbours a serious undertone, writes Rosetta Beaugendre
‘In many ways my life would have been so much easier without this compulsion to be an artist’. This admission by Patrick O’Reilly is characteristic of an artist whose frankness and anarchic spirit have been driving forces since he decided to leave Belfast College of Art in the late 1970s.
The realm of faith illustrated in the Book of Kells can be elusive to modern audiences; however, a new study by Bernard Meehan provides valuable insights into this peerless manuscript