24th October 2024 – Exhibition

New sculptures in bronze by John Behan, one of Ireland’s most celebrated living sculptors. Now in his 86^th year, the artist has spent the last three decades observing and exploring themes around emigration and the global displacement of people. Using the Irish Famine as a starting point, his most recent works highlight the ongoing plight of present-day refugees/migrants in Ukraine, Greece, Syria and more recently those affected by the catastrophic situation in Gaza.

John Behan RHA is firmly established as a sculptor of international stature and can be credited with playing a major part in the development of sculpture in Ireland over the last fifty years. Born in Dublin in 1938, he has been awarded many honours over the years and became a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1990, having been an Associate of the Academy since 1973. He is also a member of Aosdána and was conferred an honorary Doctor of Literature by NUI Galway in 2000.

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