The Life of Brian (Maguire)

(52 minutes) RTE, Hugh Lane Gallery, Creative Ireland

The incredible life story of an internationally renowned artist who goes to the frontline to tell the real story of the world.
“An exceptional film” – Irish Independent

Brian Maguire has been catapulted to the forefront of the international art world in recent years as it has been realised how much his challenging work contributes to and tells the real story of the world. This is the incredible life story of an internationally renowned artist who has lived life right on the edge and saved many lives along the way. He tells the stories of those that have lost the race, the victims of poverty, drugs and violence.

Over the last decade we have travelled to many of the locations that have become the subjects of his work and to exhibitions and talks at UN Headquarters in New York and The European Parliament. A part of the present story began over a decade ago in Ciudad Juarez Mexico with the families of femicide victims and it ends across the border in the Arizona desert at the sites of the deaths of migrants who have crossed the wall to seek a better life in the US but have died from dehydration on the last leg of their journey to freedom.