brendanHARDING - writer/artist
Who is Brendan Harding?

Brendan Harding has been immersed in creativity for over twenty-five years.

From his late teens until the age of 28 Brendan worked as a Visual Merchandiser throughout Ireland - winning many accoladates and awards along the way.

In 1990 he traveled to the ex-Soviet Union where he worked as a senior Visual Merchandiser for Aer Riannta International at their Duty Free stores in Moscow's international airport - Sheremetyevo II.

Returning to Ireland from Russia in 1996 Brendan retrained in computer graphic applications for the print and design trade and spent the next six years working for many major Irish Print and Design companies.

In 2002 Brendan headed the call to return to his lifetime passion - writing. He started scribbling in earnest and soon his work was being taken seriously by his peers, but it wasn't enough. He returned to study Creative Writing at Carlow College where he continued to hone his craft under the tutelage of several of Ireland's luminaries of the literary stage.

At present he is working on his debut novel - 'Burnt Fields, Bad Medicine and Baobabs' as its working title. The novel is set in the remote bush of Eastern Kenya where Brendan has spent much time working with a charity he co-founded back in 2006. Along with Irish optician Bernard Jennings the two have commited themselves to providing quality eyecare in an area where the basics of health-care are thin on the ground.

Along with writing and philantrophy Brendan Harding is an accomplished visual artist dealing with the issues affecting our natural environment through two collections of images from nature which have been iinfused with art from the streets - the works are titled Photo-Graffiti.

Both exhibitions, the first in 2008 and the second in summer of 2009 were sell-outs and were heaped with praise from his contemporaries.

The art and writings of Brendan are evolving on a daily basis and it won't be long before he becomes a household name in the world of the Arts.

Brendan is a past winner of the Dunlavin Short Story festival and the Bradt/Polly Evans Travel Writing award.

October 2009


 Brendan Harding pictured by Michael 'Rowdy' Thorsnes

at the 2009 Bantry Literary Festival.

 
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