Ahead of Gordon Hogan’s first exhibition in Ireland, Mike Fitzpatrick visits the artist at his home in Tipperary
Meeting Gordon Hogan outside his pre-famine cottage in the Irish countryside, he immediately immerses me in the history of the landscape, explaining that my journey on the rigidly straight lane dates back to the ‘public works projects’ that were imposed during the famine to provide food for work.
Hogan’s return to Tipperary after more than twenty years in Germany and finding an old cottage, which he is renovating, on a few acres of land, has energised his being. As an artist, he is buoyed up by receiving the basic income grant, a welcome boost for a returning creative. The news accelerated his ability to set up his studio in an old barn.
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