2001 out of a desire by both artists to explore new ways of experiencing the human figure as a living entity, and to bring to this their different experience as painter and photographer. Their first exhibition was My Paradise is here at the Oratorio di San Ludovico in Venice, in 2003. Also in 2003, they showed their second exhibition My Paradise is Now at Green on Red Gallery, Dublin. These two projects were re-worked and shown again in 2012/2013, as a banner outside Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and BOZAR in Brussels during Ireland's EU presidency in 2013, and in the 7th Biennial of International Contemporary Art in Melle, France. Their work is in the collections of The Arts Council of Ireland and The Irish Museum of Modern Art. References External links Fergus Martin's Website Green on Red Gallery profile page Interview with Fergus Martin on Gilded Birds website Aosdána members 20th-century Irish painters 21st-century Irish painters Irish male painters People from County Cork 1955 births Living people Irish expatriates in Italy 20th-century Irish male artists