Seán Hillen

In 2011 the National Library of Ireland Photographic Archive acquired those c.700 photographs from Hillen which will be held permanently as The Seán Hillen Collection, in posterity. They were exhibited in 2012 at the Photographic Archive and 17,000 people attended. The photos were acquired as 35mm negatives and high-resolution scans.

In 2007 Hillen won, with landscape architect Desmond Fitzgerald, the design competition for an Omagh Bomb Omagh bomb Memorial. He lives and works in Dublin.

In 1993, Hillen returned to Ireland. Between 1994 and 1997, he created a new body of work entitled Irelantis. The Irelantis series is a collection of scalpel-and-glue collages. They are a bizarre hybrid of the everyday postcard visuals, mixed with a fantastical other world. Most of these highly decorative collages, showing landmarks from around Ireland, are no bigger than a postcard.

Seán Hillen (born 1961, in Northern Ireland) is an artist whose work includes collages and the creative use of photographs.

Hillen was raised in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland in 1961. He studied at the Belfast College of Art. In 1982, he travelled to London to continue his studies at the London College of Printing, and then at the Slade School of Fine Art.