Gottfried Helnwein on location in the Irish landscapes of Kerry and Waterford. ...

Kilkenny-based artist Niamh Curry has persuaded some 30 fellow artists, including internationally renowned Gottfried Helnwein and Bob Dixon, to donate works for an exhibition in The Narrow Space Gallery, Clonmel, Co Tipperary, with all proceeds going to GOAL's Haiti Earthquake Appeal. ...

2001 - Gottfried Helnwein at Kilkenny Arts Festival ...

A poem written about "MOLLY" by one of the 46 foreign journalists covering the cycle tour passing through Waterford. ...

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His neck it was green, he was rare to be seen,
He was fit for a Queen of the highest degree,
His body so white, it would give you delight,
He was fat, plump and heavy, and brisk as a bee;
My dear little fellow, his legs, they were yellow ...

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I recently visted Waterford Ireland for the first time, looking for the land of my ancestors, having made the trek from Australia. It was very powerful for me to drive into Waterford and be captured immediately by the girl overlooking the harbour. I have been fascinated by it ever since, and as an artist, inspired. It was great to discover the artist and the intention behind the work, after weeks of her inhabiting my consciousness. I think she was the source of my new song, "We Are Children". Thank-you so much for your beautiful and challenging work! ...

Again and again, he has painted children in brutal, violent settings. He has used Chris­tian iconography to depict Nazi officers, and juxtaposed rampaging soldiers with Images of childhood innocence. Visceral reactions come with the territory: one Installation in Cologne was physically attacked by neo Nazis. And yet, he says, he does not set out to shock. "Shock is a useless effect," he says. "Somebody in shock is completely useless. I want to make somebody think."
Instead, Helnwein's work speaks of a deep psychological need for meaning, even as it takes the form of violence and confrontation. Such an approach is rooted in the uneasy silences of growing up in post-war Austria and the shattered illusions of his early adult life, yet is still infused with an uneasy ideal­ism.
His art has brought him material rewards. Over the past 30 years, he has become an art superstar. His paintings and photographs command large prices. As he talks in his Co Tipperary castle, garbed in black clothes and dark glasses, Helnwein has the air of a vet­eran rock star and the lifestyle to match it.
The Sunday Times, Gerry McCarthy ...

It’s a foggy, cloud-streaked afternoon in Waterford County, Ireland. I’m meeting a man who has spent a large part of his life on this island that is famously steeped in tradition. He’s called this place home for some while. Ireland has a long history of treating its artists, literary figures and musicians well. ...

Famed Austrian-born artist Gottfried Helnwein invites us into his magnificent home, Castle Gurteen Le Poer, in Co Tipperary, which dates back to the 12th century and has its own live-in-ghost the mysterious White Lady. ...

Louis le Brocquy, Sean Scully, Tony O'Malley, Hughie O'Donoghue, Gottfried Helnwein, Basil Blackshaw, Dorothy Cross, William Crozier, Mary FitzGerald, Martin Gale, Elizabeth Magill, Janet Mullarney, Paul Nugent, Linda Quinlan. ...

The exhibition includes works by: Basil Blackshaw, Dorothy Cross, William Crozier, Mary FitzGerald, Martin Gale, Gottfried Helnwein, Elizabeth Magill, Janet Mullarney, Paul Nugent, Hughie O’Donoghue, Linda Quinlan.

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The bride wore a flowing purple Vivienne Westwood number over her trademark cinched corset. Manson was his normal sepulchral white self, with black make-up and lipstick as they exchanged vows by candlelight in Ireland, at Gothic Castle Gurteen Le Poer in Kilsheelan, Co Tipperary.
A designer-fest costing an estimated $500,000, the bride wore Christian Louboutin shoes to trip up the aisle while the groom wore a John Galliano black-silk taffeta tux. They exchanged their vows at midnight in the home of their artist friend Gottfried Helnwein and the invited guest list was studded with showbiz royalty, including Madonna, Keanu Reeves, David Lynch, Lisa Marie Presley, and Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. ...

Controversial artist Gottfried Hellwein, the Austrian artist who has put up a special anti war art exhibition around buildings in Waterford recently spoke of his reasons for putting up art at the launch of his exhibition at Greyfriars Waterford last weekend.
Deputy Mayor of Waterford Cllr. Pat Hayes accepted that some people might find the art upsetting especially the one of the blood of a child and the white blue eyed children with guns.
However, he defended the rights of artists to provoke a reaction and get people to think. Sometimes provocative art can be effective and in this respect war is often seen as far away, but if the children had Asian and or African faces with guns would there have been as strong a reaction. ...

Again and again, he has painted children in brutal, violent settings. He has used Chris­tian iconography to depict Nazi officers, and juxtaposed rampaging soldiers with Images of childhood innocence. Visceral reactions come with the territory: one Installation in Cologne was physically attacked by neo Nazis. And yet, he says, he does not set out to shock. "Shock is a useless effect," he says. "Somebody in shock is completely useless. I want to make somebody think."
Instead, Helnwein's work speaks of a deep psychological need for meaning, even as it takes the form of violence and confrontation. Such an approach is rooted in the uneasy silences of growing up in post-war Austria and the shattered illusions of his early adult life, yet is still infused with an uneasy ideal­ism.
His art has brought him material rewards. Over the past 30 years, he has become an art superstar. His paintings and photographs command large prices. As he talks in his Co Tipperary castle, garbed in black clothes and dark glasses, Helnwein has the air of a vet­eran rock star and the lifestyle to match it. ...

I've long been a fan of Gottfried Helnwein's work but Waterford isn't the hotbed of anarchism Gerry seems to want us to think it is. I suppose it's a step up from the Lonely Planet's "seedy port town" moniker. It's a reimagining of an event with a Yeatsian pretence. ...If only we had courage equal to desire... I suspect art was less important than impressing friends with a bit of vandalism. ...

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WITH some of his "The Last Child" instal­lations reaching a massive 120ft, Austri­an born artist Gottfried Helnwein has been causing quite some controversy around Waterford City. ...

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