Robert Columba McCann was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland during ‘The Troubles’ and lives on the border between County Armagh in Northen Ireland in the United Kingdom and County Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland, which has influenced his academic and creative work.
He holds an MA in Philosophy from Birkbeck, University of London, where he examined the similarities in the tortured natures of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the Father of The Catholic Church, St Jerome the Penitent as portrayed by El Greco. He is working towards a PhD research proposal on the philosophy of architecture examining the phenomenology of home in the art of domestic architecture.
A Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Housing and a member of The Royal Institute of Philosophy, Robert is currently exploring Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work in aesthetics and the nature of ‘artistic-solitude’, and the creative and practical work of the architect and philosopher Friedensreich Hundertwasser and he tries to live according to Hundertwasser’s observation “you are a guest of nature behave”.
