Recent:
 COMPETITION WIN

The design by Seán and landscape architect Desmond Fitzgerald has won the international design competition for an Omagh Bomb Memorial.
The shortlisted entries were exhibited in Omagh during July 07.

 The result was widely reported and featured on the main BBC NI & UTV news reports. There were large photofeatures in the Irish Times, Mirror and the Irish News.
The memorial will be in place in August 2008.

News item in CIRCA Art Magazine.
SeanHillen.com

Seán is now represented by London-based art dealer Damien Matthews.
read more about Damien Matthews Fine Art:

'wikipedia' entry for Seán Hillen

review of the photomontage work from CIRCA magazine

recent text on the latest IRELANTIS collages: an excerpt from a 2006 catalogue text by Eimer McKeith here.

"The View" TV review of exhibition online TV review of focail.com project (both need RealPlayer)
video article at 3Dclic.com

Mic Moroney's introductory essay for the catalogue (2005)
2001 article on Seán's collage & photomontage works, by Mic Moroney here

recently added: images of Seán's video projection for Re-Joyce Festival (2004)

See more news, other bookcovers etc. at Irelantis news and Irelantis Press
 Recent:
 PRESS ON THE OMAGH DESIGN

IRISH TIMES article by Fintan O'Toole:
"shows why we need public art"

blogger pimlicoarts : "doubt there are many creatives more qualified to create a beautiful and lasting memorial to those lost in this most tragic of events"

apublishersblog:
"moves memorials onto a new level"
See the Pictures photomontages from the 'Troubles' era
Visit Irelantis later collage works at irelantis.com
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Make Contact contact details
back to homepage and other galleries
some information on this work

Contact Seán Hillen here

Download a printable pdf document of 48 photomontage images
WARNING- LARGE FILE! (2.9Mb)

 image downloads:
(right-click image or title and select 'download link to disk')

Or use contact mail above to request any image from the GALLERY
Warning- large files!


"Who Is My Enemy?"
photomontage, 1987 - 3,478 x 3,272 pixels 1.8MB

"Cosmonaut Lands in Annalong Harbour"
photomontage, 1992. 2,843 x 3,480 pixels 2.72MB

"The Goddess Appears in Newry, Easter 1993"
photomontage, 1992. 1,998x 2,532 pixels 1.44MB

Seán Hillen prints now at:
the original print gallery


New webgallery- now nearly 900 of Seán's original photographs from the period of the 'Troubles'.

Essay on Seán's early montage work by JohnHeartfield expert David Evans (1993)

Older news below:

2003:
An onlineTV video review on RTÉ's "The View" of focail.com, the collaborative billboard & web project by Seán, Ruán Magan & Gabriel Rosenstock
(requires 'realplayer'. On some Macs, you may have to copy the link and paste into the player)

2002:
Seán was one of several Irish artists commissioned for the ABSOLUT collection.
He made a lava lamp of the famous bottle:


2002:
Seán got a mention in Yahoo! Picks in June in a review of the excellent photomontage site Cut'nPaste


2001:
Seán made a video for the Super Furry Animals, for their DVD album & single 'Rings Around The World'.



Here's a review, and another review. Here's an article from a local paper, the 'Newry Democrat'
He used 'The Great Pyramids.IRELANTIS.' collage at the beginning and end of the video and it became the cover image for the single of 'Rings Around The World'


more here at irelantis news


March 1999:
Seán had 23 collages (half 'Irelantis', half 'troubles' in an exhibition in the Royal Festival Hall, London, which then travelled to The Royal Photographic Society at Bath.



"The Goddess Appears in Newry"
was the leaflet and poster image, and appeared on the cover of
the June '99 "Photographic Journal", the magazine of the Royal Photographic Society.


Many other SH montages
were published in the press,
one across a full page of the London Times Metro.

"St. Christopher Appears in London.." appeared on the cover
of LAM magazine:




1993:
"Jesus Appears in The City"
appeared on the cover of
' Creative Camera' magazine. There was also a colour spread inside.


In 1981, this documentary photo of Seán's was used on the cover of a memoir by the late Nora Connolly O'Brien, daughter of Easter Rising leader James Connolly.
Seán didn't know about it until a few years ago.(he had lent the negatives to a friend who provided them to the publishers and who is actually credited on the back)




Mosquito Press, 1981



 

March 2008: ONLINE PUBLICATION
The marvellous CANDY COLLECTIVE have published 20 pages of Seán's work, with an interview, in their latest downloadable mag. Find it HERE.

February 2008: MUSEUM PURCHASE
The Imperial War Museum, London, have purchased two more of Seán's 'Troubles' - era photomontage works for their Permanent Collection.

January 2008: NEW BOOK COVER
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