Artist: Brian Maguire

Brian Maguire has an exhibition running in IMMA based on his experiences in visiting Aleppo last year. Maguire is a right-handed but left-wing painter; he deals almost exclusively in providing a voice for the voiceless, a helping hand for those who cannot help themselves. His previous work in Juarez, Mexico (portraits of the murdered young women of that city) and his long history of teaching art in prisons, are testament to a man who wears his heart on his easel.