Gordon Hogan: ‘I went from being a young lad in Ireland to hanging out with Holocaust survivors’
Gordon Hogan currently has an exhibition at the Source Arts Centre in Thurles.
Central to Gordon Hogan’s Exploding View exhibition at the Source Arts Centre in Thurles, Co Tipperary is a model of a church, suspended in mid-air on a wooden frame. While many artists of his generation – Hogan was born in 1978 – have come to regard organised religion with indifference or scorn, his own attitude is more measured.
“Religion is a huge part of my work,” he says. “My father was Catholic, and my mother Protestant. They always had a kind of humourous approach to religion. My dad went to church when we were kids, because he was a builder, and that was where you’d meet people and get jobs. Other than that, my family was never religious, and yet I became an altar boy, and got really into the whole thing. My mother used to make fun of me for that.”
