Robert Ballagh's portrait of the ageing process

SEVEN decades are celebrated in Robert Ballagh’s exhibition ‘Seven’, which opens next weekend at the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork. UCD recently presented Ballagh with an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Literature to celebrate his lifetime’s achievements in the arts, and the exhibition of 14 portraits coincides with his 70th birthday later this month.

Robert Ballagh's portrait of the ageing process

Born in Dublin, where he still lives, Ballagh is one of the best-known of Irish painters. His work as a designer includes the final series of Irish Punt banknotes, as well as postage stamps and sets for the theatre — these include Riverdance.

‘Seven’ consists of seven of Ballagh’s self-portraits and seven of his portraits of leading cultural figures, both alive and dead. Most of the work has been borrowed from private collections, so it has not been seen in public before. Ballagh himself hasn’t seen much of the work since its completion.

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