I have a need to be myself and to be myself alone. I have little enthusiasm for generalities of identity, Irish or otherwise. Bill Crozier tells Brian McAvera

I had never met Bill Crozier. On the phone he sounded like a young man, though I knew he wasn’t irrepressible, with a warm but spry sense of humour. He came to Belfast to adjudicate a RUA exhibition and I found a presence that was part choir boy, part sage. But all artists are chameleons