Bill Griffin: 'I was always in trouble with the cops, for smoking, and taking speed' 

The Cork artist may be battling cancer, but he has at least one more exhibition to add to his CV in what has been a very storied life 

Bill Griffin has owned a space shuttle and met both Francis Bacon and Muammar Gaddafi. 

Bill Griffin is not sure if his forthcoming solo exhibition at St Peter’s on North Main St in Cork will be his 51st or 52nd. It’s not that he can’t remember, more of a case of whether his last show, at the Allihies Mines Museum in June, should actually count.

“I had only a month’s notice to get that together,” he says. “A lot of the paintings were only half-done. I was cross at myself for showing them at all.”