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    DEATH OF ARTIST CHARLIE WHISKER

    Sunday, April 11th, 2021

    The Northern Irish artist Charlie Whisker has died. His work  is in the collections of the Arts Council, Allied Irish Banks, the Ulster Museum and private collectors such as members of U2, Steven Soderberg, John Boorman, Paul McGuinness and Henry Mountcharles. Born in 1949 he taught at the NCAD in the 1980’s and worked as a video director in Los Angeles with artists including Bob Dylan in the 1980’s. He was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers at the age of 63.

    ONCE BELOW A TIME by Charlie Whisker, with The Titanic in the background, sold for €2,900 at Whyte’s in 2012