Fine Arts
Meet the artist: John Doherty – minutiae of an Ireland fading from view
The Kilkenny artist’s current show, Tempus Fugit Et Vita Brevis, is running at the Taylor Galleries
Co Kilkenny-born John Doherty studied architecture before moving to Sydney and beginning his career as an artist.
For many years he divided his time between Ireland and Australia, but he now lives and works in West Cork. He is best known for his finely detailed studies of the minutiae of life in an Ireland that is slowly fading from view, slipping from the present into past tense.
The abandoned corner shops and bars, the rusting ...
