Brian O'Doherty / Patrick Ireland

Brian O'Doherty / Patrick Ireland is one of the most complex and controversial figures to emanate from the American Art scene of the 1960s. Born in Ballaghadereen, Co. Roscommon in 1928, he was a qualified medical doctor and emerging artist when he left Dublin in 1957. In New York he became a pioneering figure of Conceptual Art, a movement which rejected the traditional notion of the artwork as a unique object of status and financial worth in favour of forms which depend on the viewer's mental participation for their existence.