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Biography of Robert Ballagh - Painter
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Robert Ballagh (born 22 September, 1943) is an Irish artist. He was born in Dublin and is both a painter and designer. His painting style was strongly influenced by pop art and his paintings are often playful and didactic. Ballagh represented Ireland at the 1969 Paris Biennale. Among the theatre sets he has designed are sets for Riverdance, Samuel Beckett's Endgame (play)|Endgame (1991) and Oscar Wilde's Salomé (play)|Salomé (1998). He has also designed over 70 Irish postage stamps and the last series of Irish banknotes, "Series C", before the introduction of the euro. He is a member of Aosdána. ==Work in Collections== *The National Gallery of Ireland *The Ulster Museum *The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery *The Albrecht Dürer House, Nuremberg *Trinity College, Dublin ==External Link== *http://www.artscouncil.ie/aosdana/biogs/visualart s/robertballagh.html Aosdána short biography
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