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O'Casey, Breon (Breon O'Casey was born in London, the son of the famous playwright Sean O'Casey. In 1937 his family moved from London to Totnes in Devon. A highly productive and much-respected artist for four decades his public reputation has only recently spread beyond certain interlocked art and craft circles. He has been a jeweller, a painter, an etcher, a weaver, and more recently he has taken to sculpture. For most of his career, Breon O'Casey has lived in Cornwall and has been closely associated with the St. Ives School of painters and sculptors. He benefited from his friendship with some of the leading artists of his generation such as Peter Layon, John Wells and Tony O'Malley. He studied for three years at the Anglo French Art Centre and was assistant to Babara Hepworth from 1959 to 1962. He was also assistant to Denis Mitchell in St Ives Although his gold and silver jewellery has won him an international reputation with connoisseurs and his handwoven creations have been targeted by knowledgeable collectors, he now concentrates on painting, sculpture and graphic work. Public Collections Include: Tate Gallery Victoria & Albert Museum, London Arts Council of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Ireland Cornwall County Council Crafts Council, London Dartington Hall, Devon Leeds Museum & Art Gallery Plymouth Museum & Art Gallery Royal Museum Of Scotland, Edinburgh Exhibitions Include: 1960 Arnolfini, Bristol 1974 British Crafts Centre London 1983 Kruger Gallery, New York, USA Fulham Gallery, London 1984 Helen Drutt Gallery Philadelphia, USA Oxford Gallery, Oxford Ingrid Presser, Germany 1993 Wolf at the Door, Penzance 1993 Taylor Galleries, Dublin 2002 Peppercannister Gallery, Dublin 2003 Berkeley Square Gallery, London Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia Yew Tree Gallery, Morvah, Cornwall 2004 Peppercannister Gallery, Dublin Mullan gallery, Belfast Selected Group Exhibitions Include: 1959 Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives group 1970 Oxford Gallery, Oxford with Bryan Illsley 1992 Narrow water Gallery, Northern Ireland with Carolyn Mulholland 1992 International Handwerkmesse, Munich 1993 Taylor Gallery with Conor Fallon 1997 Bridge Gallery, Dublin: The Irish Friends of Denis Mitchell 1999 Berkeley Square Gallery, London Tate Gallery, St Ives with Bernard Leach 2000 Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge with Jim Partridge 2003 New Ashgate Gallery, London with Sir Terry Frost RA & Sandra Blow RA Publications Selected Poems, Maurice English, illustrated by Breon OCasey, 1991 Man & Materials Breon OCasey 1998 Breon OCasey, Scolar Press, 1999 A Celtic Artist, Lund Humphries, 2003)