Arts Life - Bill Griffin
Favourite café: I like pubs
Current listening: ‘Red to Blue’ by me mate Mick Flannery
The last gig I attended: Mick Flannery at the Mine Museum in Allihies
The last book I read: That Ole Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
The last play I attended: Silence by Cobh actor Pat Kinevane
Last exhibition I attended: David White’s ‘Palette and Mallet’ at the Allihies Mine Museum
Favourite film: Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven
Favourite artist: Vincent Van Gogh. Who else?
Favourite work of art: ‘Women of Algiers’ by Pablo Picasso
Favourite venue: Cork Vision Centre
The artist/writer/musician I would most like to meet: Eve, without Adam. I’d like to know what really happened!
Bio: Bill Griffin is a self taught artist who was born in Cork in 1947. He began painting in the mid-1960s in London but moved into the oil business in the early ’70s after failing to make any serious impact as an artist. In 1999 he returned to full-time painting, this time to some substantial success. He has had 22 solo exhibitions in the last 13 years. His work is widely collected.
He lives and works on the Beara Peninsula with his partner Deirdre. He wrote his one-man, one-act play Betrayal, about the artist Vincent Van Gogh, during a convalescence following a leg injury which prevented him from painting.
Upcoming shows: Bill Griffin performs Betrayal at the Wandesford Quay Gallery in Cork at 8pm this evening and Trish Caffrey’s Summer School in Allihies on Jul 26.
Painting exhibitions: Elizabeth Martin Curated Salon in New Jersey, USA from Oct. 12 — 15, and George Billis Gallery Chelsea, New York USA in June 2013.
