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Noreen Rice met the Boys in the 1950s through her piano teacher, Tom Davidson. On
returning from Hong Kong, she worked at night at the BBC and rented a flat in Dillon’s
sister, Mollie’s, house in Abbey Road, London, and later briefly in a flat above the Campbells
in Randolph Avenue, Maida Vale. Moving to London in 1954, Campbell gave art classes to
Rice, and became friendly with Noreen’s brother, actor Hal Rice. Noreen visited Dillon and
Campbell in Connemara in the 1960s and participated with Campbell and Armstrong in a
group show, ‘Twelve Irish Artists’
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at the Richie Hendriks Gallery, 1964 and ‘Vision of The
West’, which was opened by James White in July 1967. Moving to Paris, she married sculptor
Haim Kern and, like Dillon, was interested in etching. She maintained a close association
with the two artists until they died in the 1970s.
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Other artists included, Barrie Cooke, Eileen Costello, T.P Flanagan, Cecil King, Seamus O’ Colmain, Eric
Patton, Patrick Collins, Richard Kingston and Patrick Pye.
fig.110: Tom Davidson and George Campbell at
Noreen Rice’s Exhibition, Hendriks Gallery
fig.111: Noreen Rice and Gerard Dillon, 1960’s
fig.112: James White, Arthur Armstrong, Gerard Dillon, Seamus O’ Colmain, and George Campbell at the
opening of ‘Visions Of The West’, 1967