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GALLERIES
GALLERIES
'Troubles' - Era Collages 1983-92
'IRELANTIS' Collages 1994-
'The Consolations of Genius' 2010-2017
'Searching for Evidence ...' 2006-2010
'Troubles' - Era Collages 1983-92
IRELANTIS Collages 1994-
'The Consolations of Genius'
'Searching for Evidence ...'
'Troubles' Era Photos 1980-92
Other Works; Recent Collages, etc
Books and Book Covers
Forthcoming: The Cloud Machine
PHOTO SERIES
'Ghost Shops'
COLLAGE SERIES
'The Prophet Ezekiel with a Kitten in The Sistine Chapel'
SCULPTURES
The Omagh Bomb Memorial
VIDEO, NETFLIX and others
ACADEMIC PAPERS
FORTHCOMING
Seán Hillen is an artist whose work includes collages and the creative use of photographs.
Born in 1961 in Newry, Hillen lives and works in Dublin. He studied at Belfast College of Art, the London College of Printing, and at the Slade School. His 1980’s photo-collage works, based on his own documentary photographs mixed with tourist, toy packaging, and fantasy material were at different times highly praised and heavily censored.
One featured as a frontispiece in the Imperial War Museum’s recent book ‘Art from Contemporary Conflict’.The original black and white photos have since been acquired as a permanent collection by the National Library of Ireland and … Read More