Olympia Theatre Dublin, Marcus Patton

The Olympia Theatre on Dame Street in Dublin was designed by John Callaghan and opened in 1879 as the Star of Erin Music Hall, with the stained glass canopy added in the 1890s.  Charlie Chaplin was one of many music hall artists who appeared there, and it has featured many modern acts as well. Like many other Victorian buildings it was threatened with demolition in the 1960s, but survived and was completely refurbished in 2016. This was made as part of a set of prints of buildings that feature in James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Marcus Patton, a past director and chairman of Belfast Print Workshop, was born in Enniskillen and studied architecture at Queen’s University, Belfast.

Patton’s work ranges from pen-and- ink drawings to watercolours, often of architectural subjects, and from concert posters-about 400 to date, many hand-printed in silk-screen-to caricatures. He has completed commissions for the Linen Hall Library, Belfast, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and for the White House, creating the poster marking President Clinton’s visit to Belfast in 2000. He was awarded the OBE in 1995.