Isabella Evengelisti previews Michael Cullen’s first exclusively Spanish-themed collection on view at Taylor Galleries, Dublin
When Michael Cullen first visited Spain in 1969 as a curious young artist he discovered a deep vein of inspiration that remains productive to this day. In formal terms travel opened his mind to the expressive possibilities of colour, and in the environment of southern Spain light began to infiltrate his canvases. Personally, it was the beginning of his life as a vagabond, as travel only served to increase his curiosity and thereafter became his modus operandi as an artist, taking him “out of the backwater and into the mainstream”
Ireland’s most highly regarded architectural émigré is the subject of a new publication and a USA-based exhibition; Ellen Rowley looks at his legacy