Dublin born artist Robert Ballagh has worked in numerous, but always recognisable, styles, but has most often been labelled a pop artist and a photorealist. His painting career began in 1966, working as an assistant to Michael Farrell where he received his only training, and is otherwise self taught...

Born in 1943, Brian Ballard studied in his home town at Belfast College of Art and went on to further studies at Liverpool College of Art. Best known for his modern treatment of the traditional genres of the still life, the nude and the landscape, and his distinctive use of bold yet evocative colour...

Moyra Barry was born in Dublin and attended the Royal Hiberian Academy School where she won a Taylor Prize. She later went on to study at Slade in London before moving to Quito in Ecuador where she taught for some time. On returning to Dublin she exhibited regularly with the RHA and the Dublin Paint...

Tipperary born Rose Barton, began a long relationship with the Royal Water Colour Society of Ireland in 1872 when she first exhibited with them, and later became a Committee member. Three years later she spent some time in Brussels, taking painting and drawing classes, and in 1878 she exhibited for ...

Melchiorre Bega was as an Italian architect and designer who has come to define the urban and domestic worlds that we inhabit today. Born into a design family, who ran the company Vittorio Bega & Figli in Bolonga, they specialised in manufacture and restoration of furniture. Melchiorre, along wi...