What inspires and drives the creative mind? John Kelly returns to RTÉ One with new episodes of The Works Presents, which explore this very question - watch now, via RTÉ Player.
In the latest edition, John talks to artist Robert Ballagh - watch a preview above.
Robert Ballagh is an Irish painter and designer, his work extremely well-known thanks to commissions to design everything from banknotes to commemorative stamps, to the set of Riverdance.
His paintings, too, have also entered the public consciousness – particularly his portraits of Irish literary, historical and political figures. Robert is a self-taught artist who left behind a career in the showbands, to pursue his interest in art, and in 1969 he represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale.
He's also well-known for his passionate commitment to various social, political and art-related causes – and it's an activism he traces back to his early days in Dublin, and the attitude of his Presbyterian father to life and to citizenship.
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