Tadg O'Runaide

Born in Dublin Ireland, recipient of a fairly unconventional nomadic upbringing. I developed an insatiable hunger for knowledge, my father referring to me as the Why Boy, due to my endless questions, resulting in a healthy scepticism regarding received wisdom, authority, religious political and hierarchical systems. Proof was all around me that my elders were not necessarily my betters.


I have always had a love and affiliation with visual communication, as a boy asserting " You don't read the writing, you read the pictures".

I have always maintained that visual language is my first language. As a young adult I found the disappointment in the human condition devastating.

I desire a humanity described through equality, decency, tenderness and love. A relationship of altruism and reciprocity not parasite and host.

In truth I think my work was motivated by a need to become an active agent of thought. To not be a spectator.


Art can have a purpose beyond the cathartic, illustrative, decorative or as has been promoted recently, the self referential spectacle. My aspiration is to communicate in an increasingly universal visual language to go beyond cultural boundaries to a deeper human level. The audience I wish to re...