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"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

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