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My work focuses on three overlapping themes: Immigration, Nationalism, & Catholicism.

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Mother Ireland, 2006

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Vertigo, 1998

Having spent the first four years of my life in a Mother and Baby Home I grew up in Edgeworthstown,

County Longford, before emigrating to England in 1959. My paintings are autobiographical, in so far as
they can be considered bulletins or accounts from memory.
Please contact my curator, John O’Hora, should you require further information.

After the Auburn Dance, 1995

After the Auburn Dance, 1995

Catholicism and The Free State

Gifts of The Free State, 2023

The Backward Glance, 1994

Leaving Ireland, 1996

The Dividing Sea, 2012

Far from Land, 2015

Leaving, 2001

The Crossing, 1995

The Wake, 1993

Disembarcation, 1997

Approaching Euston, 2003

Hollyhead-London, 2003

The Free State into which I was born in 1944, was characterized by certain narratives and manoeuvers. Narratives = Catholicism.

Manoeuvers = Immigration.

The Bedsitter, 2003

Nurses and Navvies, 2012

On Euston Road, 2012

The Gender Escalator, 2004

More women left Ireland for England in the 1950s than men, they assimilated better, inter-married and
were upwardly mobile. Hence the symbolism of the escalator.

Navvies and Nurses, 2020

The NHS Ward, 2014

The Emigrant 1, 2009

The King of Camden Town, 2004

Early morning Camden Town, 2007

Half Worlds, 1997

The Crown, 2008

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The Gresham, 2018

OTHER HALF WORLDS

Nuns Digging, 2023

The Law of the Heart, 2018

The Innocent, 2018

THEOCRACY INSTALLATION, Dublin, 2023

In The Free State, 2023

In The Free State, with detail 1 & 2

This work testifies representations of my own lived experience.
As a young Irishman I experienced this ‘State’ firsthand, and to the end I see myself not only as a painter but within the canvas of my paintings.

The Orphan Factory, 2009

Whatever you say, say Nothing, 2023

Visiting my mother’s resting place in Milwaukee, 2018.

My mother’s maiden-name was Helen Power. My father’s was Thomas Lockhart.
I never got to know or meet either of them.

At home with one of my book covers.
My paintings have featured on many book covers.

EXHIBITING AND SHOWING

Canavan in Carrick, 2022

Irish Cultural Centre, 2021

Presidential Award of Recognition, 2018

Former Irish Ambassador to Britain, 
Dan Mulholland, 2014

Awarded Freeman of Cork City, 2017

THEOCRACY opening at
The United Arts Club, Dublin, 2023

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