The death has been announced of Irish artist Richard Gorman.
Gorman was a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose career spanned more than four decades and whose work was exhibited widely in Ireland and internationally.
Born in Dublin in 1946, Gorman initially studied business at Trinity College Dublin before deciding to pursue a career in art. He later enrolled at Dún Laoghaire School of Art and Design, from which he graduated in 1980. That same year, his work was selected for inclusion in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, a yearly exhibition of Irish abstract expressionism and avant-garde Irish art, where it was shown again in 1981, marking his early…