Guggi: 'The brain bleed gave me a sense I've so much more work to do'

Guggi's own brush with death and the recent loss of his parents has informed the work in the former Virgin Prune's latest exhibition 

Guggi currently has an exhibition at the Kerlin in Dublin. Picture: Gabriella Janni

Guggi In the spring of 2021, the Dublin artist Guggi had a close brush with death, undergoing a four-and-a-half-hour operation in Beaumont Hospital to counteract the effects of a bleed on his brain.

“I’ve done some crazy things in my life,” he says. “I’ve had motorbike accidents and so on, but the brain bleed was different; it gave me a sense that I have so much more work to do.”