Patrick J Murphy discusses the development of John Behan’s distinguished career as he marks his 70th birthday and prepares for two exhibitions later this year
John Behan is seventy years of age this year and marks this important birthday with an upcoming exhibition of new work at the Lavit Gallery in Cork next September, followed soon afterwards by a major exhibition at the prestigious Beaux Art Gallery in Bath, which specialises in featuring the works of important modern sculptors. Behan at seventy is an impressive, successful artist. He has come a long way from his early childhood in the inner city neighbourhood of Sheriff Street, to being one of the most popular and best patronised of living Irish artists, with an international reputation
Riann Coulter investigates the variety of proposals from the four short-listed artists for Ireland’s most significant art prize
