The Irish Aesthete: Ten Years in the Making will mark ten years of Robert’s influential blog, The Irish Aesthete, and the exhibition will run for the month of December at the Irish Architectural Archives, 45 Merrion Square East, Dublin 2. Admission is free.
Robert is best known for his specialist interest in historic houses and gardens in Ireland and the exhibition comprises a selection of his photographs that have been illustrating his blog and social media channels for the past decade. www.theirishaesthete.com and on Instagram: @theirishaesthete
Importantly, Robert is donating all his photographs to the Archive which now number up to 50,000 images which will then be digitally archived and available in one place for ever more. He has photographed every house of importance or interest in the country, North and South, both ruined and preserved, so this donation should prove to be a huge resource in years to come.
Having never owned a camera, from the beginning Robert used his mobile phone, teaching himself how to make good pictures to hold the attention of viewers. Since then, his photographs have received widespread acclaim and appeared on book covers, in magazine and newspaper articles and on many other sites. In 2019 a book featuring some of his pictures – The Irish Aesthete: Ruins of Ireland – was published in Britain and the United States.
