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Beneath a gibbous moon, on a crisp, cold January night, the stars came out for Guggi’s Kerlin Gallery opening. Them, new paintings and sculptures, is now showing, and among the crowd that evening were Gavin Friday, Caroline and Andrea Corr, Richard Gorman, Leah Hewson, Eoin Colfer, Jim Jarmusch, James Hanley and Orla de Brí. And every artist’s favourite colour – red-dot red – was everywhere. ....
In galleries and museums we now spend, on average, 29 seconds in front of a masterpiece and that includes the time it takes to click a selfie. But sometimes a work is so unusual, so interesting, so accomplished that it will hold the viewer for much longer – and one such work is this large, almost life-size oil-on-canvas painting of a young man in an artist’s attic studio. ....