John Kindness (born 1951) is an Irish artist working a range of media including sculpture and painting. His work often contrasts material, image and reference in an unusual and humorous …

Northern Irish artist John Kindness graduated from Belfast College of Art in 1974. Throughout his career Kindness has used traditional methods such as mosaic and fresco painting to explore …

The Big Fish[1] is a printed ceramic mosaic [2] sculpture by John Kindness. The 10-metre-long (33 ft) [3] statue was constructed in 1999 [3] and installed on Donegall Quay in Belfast, …

Kindness brings his virtuosity to various mediums and introduces novel strategies to represent the various episodes in the tale. Inspired by James Joyce’s version of the Odyssey, Ulysses, …

Aug 27, 2010 · John Kindness is an internationally renowned painter, sculptor and multimedia artist from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who created and contributed to comic zines in the 1970s.

Jan 31, 2024 · In John Kindness ’s visual retelling of the Odyssey, the drowned sailors of Odysseus are shown as starfish-shaped torsos, tattooed and clad in saucy Speedos. We...

Versatile artist, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, who settled in Dublin, in the Irish Republic.

John Kindness is one of Northern Ireland’s best known artists. Typical of Kindness's work is Treasures of New York, a series he produced when he spent time in New York in the early …

The Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts is presenting The Odyssey, an exhibition of works by John Kindness, from December 7th, 2023 to February 18th, 2024. For this body of work, Kindness’ …

By deliberately mimicking the visual styles of Ancient Greek vase-painting that survive through archaeological excavation, Kindness suggests that the residues of contemporary life will be …