Behan comes full circle

Human Chain, Homage to Seamus Heaney, Bronze by John Behan
John Behan with his Hare in Motion sculpture

A journey in a leaky boat to an uncertain future is a recurring theme throughout history.

“James Joyce believed in the artistic phenomenon of eternal recurrence, that art is cyclical, not linear,” says John Behan.

His exhibition of 30 new works in bronze and 20 paintings revisits the Táin, the Great Irish Famine, and the present in the form of the emigrant crisis in Africa and the ...