Stand in front of the work of Dublin artist PIGSY and you’ll feel a sense of unease, a rising curiosity.
Or at least I did. Yellow letters and little faces peer through the grey smoke of the canvas. There is a distinct feeling of looking into a unique world.
PIGSY is the artist, quite distinct from the man who opens the door of the studio with a friendly smile. PIGSY is an anarchist; happiest in the studio, throwing paint and creating blackout poetry from sheafs of pages, he does not belong in society.
Society on the other hand has quite a liking for PIGSY; you can find his work in private collections & galleries around the world, an invisible mycelial network that somewhat explains the mystery of artists earning their bread. And this artist has quite a network.
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