VENICE, Calif. (RNS) — Now one of Ireland’s most celebrated modern artists, the U2 frontman's childhood friend and former bandmate, has a new exhibit in Venice, California. VENICE, Calif. (RNS) — At ...

BOND: Guggi and Bono grew up together on Dublin’s northside in the 1970s and remain friends to this day THEY say everybody needs good neighbours and this was certainly the case for two young boys on a ...

The acclaimed artist talks about how his faith helped him survive an operation for an aneurysm, squaring up to a heroin addict in Mountjoy Prison, and the inspiration for his latest collection Guggi ...

Memory holds an endless fascination. The way it works and doesn’t work, the fact that moments we seem to remember so clearly are in fact shaped and altered by our mood, by our recent experiences, or ...

Guggi In the spring of 2021, the Dublin artist Guggi had a close brush with death, undergoing a four-and-a-half-hour operation in Beaumont Hospital to counteract the effects of a bleed on his brain.

Guggi, who turned 60 this year, is not resting on his laurels. With three solo exhibitions of new work, in Los Angeles, Tokyo and now the Kerlin Gallery in Dublin (he’s shown at the Kerlin since 1990) ...

Bono's childhood BFF – and bestie to this day – Guggi gave an interesting interview to the Religion News Service agency about how Bono became so spiritual Guggi – official name Derek Rowan – grew up ...

Gustav Data Andersson plays guitar for Makthaverskan, the giddy Swedish indie-pop band. And now he's striking out on his own under the name Guggi Data. As his first release, he's dropped "Baby," a ...

Gustav Data Andersson, former guitarist for Swedish indie-pop energy-bombs Makthaverskan, has started making music on his own under the name Guggi Data. We posted his lovely debut single “Baby” last ...

At the height of Ireland's sectarian Troubles in the early 1970s, when he was not long out of diapers, Paul Hewson met Derek Rowen, a neighbor boy from a few houses away in their working-class Finglas ...