Fine Arts
Meet the Artist with Peter Monaghan: ‘I’d like people to have a visceral connection with my work’
Dublin artist on collecting illustrated children’s books and records and a love of Cadiz
Dublin-born Peter Monaghan attended the National College of Art and Design in the mid-1970s. After graduating, he joined Dara O’Lochlainn’s graphic design firm, before starting his own successful design company.
In 2000, he gave up design work to concentrate full-time on his artistic practice.
“My work is the result of a disciplined research into the experience of looking – the experience of pure visual sensation and aesthetic pleasure. Simple forms and colours are used ...
