As part of the Mayor of London's St Patrick's Festival the Irish Cultural Centre and the Barbara Stanley Gallery present an evening of film and conversation with Pauline Bewick hosted by Dylan Haskins.

Maurice Galway's 2012 film "Yellow Man Grey Man" examines the hugely successful series of work by Pauline Bewick known as "The Yellow Man." The film will be shown and then followed by an interview with Dylan Haskins and an audience Q + A.

Year in, year out the Yellow Man lives alone. No one comments on the colour of his skin, his nakedness nor his antennae. Maybe it’s because he doesn’t make judgements, is not grasping. Like nature he is just there, simply there.

Bewick will be exhibiting her paintings as part of the St. Patrick's Festival viewing daily from 1st - 21st March on the 2nd floor of City Hall.

Pauline Bewick

From her first public outings in art in the 1950s, Pauline Bewick (born 1935) brought an energy and originality into the Irish art world, which drew international attention to her innovative ways of working and expressing her vision. From her late teens she received significant media coverage and, since 1955, has written and illustrated books for major Irish, British and American publishers. JD Salinger was a guest at her first solo exhibition in Dublin in 1957. The following year she moved to London and began exhibiting in the West End’s prestigious galleries. In 1960 she was employed by the BBC to produce Little Jimmy, a highly-rated children’s television series which was recommissioned for 2 years and gave her the freedom to travel Europe. Returning to Ireland, she focused on major paintings which were highly sought after and sold throughout the world, appearing in public galleries in the US and Europe, the latest in 2017 being the European Commission HQ in Brussels.

In 2004 she was appointed by the Minister for Arts to the Board of the National Gallery of Ireland. Her membership of the International Women’s Forum has resulted in invitations to speak at home and abroad, the latest being in New York in 2011. In 2017 Bewick’s painting ‘The Philosopher in the Desert’ was hung permanently in the VIP room of the European Commission’s Charlemagne building at the heart of the European quarter in Brussels, Belgium.

To this day Pauline’s artistic work is central to her life, and she remains rooted in the present. She works on paintings, tapestries, sculpture, ceramics and sketchbooks and is open to new artistic challenges.

Dylan Haskins

Dylan Haskins is a producer for BBC Ideas. He also co-hosts Soundings podcast and live event series with musician Lisa Hannigan. For four years he worked with Other Voices festival, presenting interviews with artists for The Guardian and RTÉ Radio One. He began his television and radio career at Irish national broadcaster RTÉ in 2009 and has reported and guest presented extensively for Arena on RTE Radio 1, the flagship arts and culture show on Ireland’s most popular radio station. He has also reported for The History Show (RTE Radio 1), Across The Line (BBC Radio Ulster) and Arts Extra (BBC Radio Ulster) and produced and presented for Documentary on One (RTE Radio 1). In 2008 he directed Roll Up Your Sleeves, a documentary about do-it-yourself counterculture while driving an American punk band around squatted social spaces in Europe in his Dad’s old Volkswagen Golf. In addition to his broadcasting career Dylan has been a vocal advocate for arts through his membership of the board Project Arts Centre for eight years and work with Dublin Theatre Festival as Curator of Talks in 2012. In 2015, Dylan was appointed as the Arts Council of Ireland’s Jerome Hynes fellow on the UK based Clore Leadership Programme.