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Collapse The Box: Kevin Killen

Kevin Killen studied from 1996 to 1999 at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design University College, specialising for one year in 3D Design and two years in Fine Art. He continued his training in Dallas Texas in 2009, studying neon glass skills; developing his long term interest in neon. Now based in Northern Ireland, […]

Collapse The Box: True Colours

Review of the art exhibition, True Colours, held at the Ulster Museum. This exhibition showcased a selection of the best of the GCSE, AS and A2 exam entries from summer 2014 and includes preparatory work alongside finished pieces. With Mo McDevitt.

Mary Duffy: Unarmed & Dangerous

Artist extraordinaire Mary Duffy explores aspects of her work, lifestyle, philosophy and examines the hurdles and political difficulties she has faced throughout her career as an individual affected by the misuse of Thalidomide given to expectant mothers in 1960s. In conversation with Mo McDevitt in Co. Wexford we find the source of her expansive collection […]

Collapse The Box: Conrad Atkinson

The work of the artist, Conrad Atkinson. Conrad Atkinson was born in Cumbria in 1940. He has received international recognition for his innovative art. Lawrence Rinder, Curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, observed “It is the forging together of conceptualism and activism to art practice that distinguishes Atkinson’s work and makes it such […]

Collapse the Box: Bill Kirk

The work of the photographer, Bill Kirk Collapse the Box is an arts series on NVTV, Belfast Local Television

Collapse the Box: Neil Shawcross, The Portrait

Collapse the Box is an arts series on NVTV. “It’s a purely natural and innate thing in me. It’s always been there. The less I have to think and just paint…the better.” Neil Shawcross Neil Shawcross grew up and studied art in Lancashire, England before moving to Ireland in 1962 to teach art. Ever since […]