Guggi rented a studio space in Dublin’s city centre. It was here that he met German artist Sibylle Ungers, who had a studio in the same space. They had a joint exhibition in the Kerlin in 1990 and in Ghent in Belgium the year after. The following year, the couple got married. In 2003, Sibylle told me: “I sometimes think I met a boy and I now have a man. Guggi will often say I’m the sanest person he’s ever met. “Because Guggi and I became a unit he was able to maybe leave his father – as much as he loves him – behind him a little bit. Not to forget, but to look beyond his father, to put that time behind him, and heal himself to an extent, because he did, in my opinion, have a hard childhood.” Their marriage ended in 2017. “I moved out that year,” he says. The break-up came after nearly 30 years and four children together. He is father to Moses (33) by a previous relationship, and has four sons, Eliah, Caleb, Noah and Gideon, ranging in age from 28 to 19, with Sibylle.