![]() ![]() Taught by Brian Maguire, one of Ireland's best known contemporaryĪrtists, who runs a painting course at Portlaoise.Ī HARDENED criminal who had followed his brother into a life in the ![]() His young brother took up painting eight years ago after being Martin Cahill masterminded the world's biggest art theft andĮven visited the home days before the raid to choose which ones he would Priceless Beit collection paintings which his brother The General stoleįrom Russborough House - the Wicklow home of Sir Alfred Beit - in 1986. ![]() Ironically, he was quizzed by Gardai about peddling some of the Venture which is keeping him on the right side of the law. Today collectors anxiously await his latest offerings from a His first works to be exhibited were shown in Dublin's ProjectĪrts Centre in 1995 when he was still behind bars. Himself to being a full-time artist since his release from prison. The charcoal drawings and acrylic paintings, featuring hauntingįaces of women and men which Cahill has created over the past two years,Ĭahill, whose brother Martin was shot dead in 1994, has devoted Wonderland, is currently on show at the City Arts Centre.ĭespite the cheery title Cahill's works have been inspired byĪ collection of disturbing subjects from Dublin's underworld. Today a single painting by the former criminal fetches up to poundsġ,600 while three inch square motifs are being snapped up at pounds 75Ĭahill's private exhibition, entitled Grafton Street's A While serving an eight years in Portlaoise jail for possession of pounds The convicted kidnapper and drug smuggler started painting in 1992 General is thousands of pounds richer since a gallery of his paintings THE brother of Ireland's most notorious criminal, MartinĬahill, has taken the art world by storm in a new exhibition of hisĮddie Cahill, 48, younger sibling of murdered crime lord The APA style: ART'S NEW GENERAL Cahill's brother finds paint pays better than crime.ART'S NEW GENERAL Cahill's brother finds paint pays better than crime." Retrieved from MLA style: "ART'S NEW GENERAL Cahill's brother finds paint pays better than crime." The Free Library. ![]()
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