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Brendan Ellis (born 1951) is an Irish artist and teacher based in
Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdo ...
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Education

Ellis studied at St Mary's Grammar School and the Ulster Polytechnic (now
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). He moved to London in 1974 and he gained his master's degree at
the Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It off ...
in 1977. As part of his studies there, he won the John Minton Drawing Prize.


Early career

In the late 1970s, he worked as a teacher, as well as being a clerical officer and mural painter for the Civil Service. In 1979 he became a medical artist at the
Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast The Royal Victoria Hospital commonly known as "the Royal", the "RVH" or "the Royal Belfast", is a hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is managed by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. The hospital has a Regional Virus Centre, which ...
. From 1987 he was shop steward for the Confederation of Health Service Employees at the hospital.


Artwork

His artistic work includes the Stations of the Cross for St Columba's Roman Catholic Church, Annan, Dumfriesshire (1984), commissions for churches in England, from 1990 and a commissioned self-portrait for the National Collection, Limerick in 1992. His work focuses on aspects of the troubles in Northern Ireland, depicting stylized characters against the backdrop of everyday scenes of urban life affected by political violence. Ellis has had solo exhibitions in Belfast, at the Kerlin Gallery in Dublin, and at the
Arts Council of Northern Ireland The Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Irish: ''Comhairle Ealaíon Thuaisceart Éireann'', Ulster-Scots: ''Airts Cooncil o Norlin Airlan'') is the lead development agency for the arts in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1964, as a successor to ...
. He has worked as a medical artist at the Royal Hospitals in Belfast since 1979.


Family

Ellis has a brother, Fergal Ellis, who is also an artist.Ross’s Auctions website
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References

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