Wexford Opera Festival Exhibition, Johnstown Castle, Wexford from 16 October 2009.
Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition, The Titanic Drawings Offices, 2 Queens Road, Queens Island, Belfast. 19 September to 19 October 2008
Recent Exhibitions
The Secret Garden 15th May to 27th May 2008
Exhibition of Sculpture at the Iveagh Gardens, Dublin, organised by the Solomon Gallery.
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| Ball Player Bronze, with bronze base 56 x 19.5 x 10" (142 x 50 x 25cm) |
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One of the best kept secrets in Dublin, the present Iveagh Gardens were designed in 1865 by Ninian Niven for Benjamin Lee Guinness (Lord Iveagh) using an intermediate design between the 'French Formal' and the 'English Landscape' styles. With a large variety of landscape features, from rustic grottoes and cascades to a formal rose garden, maze and archery grounds, it would be difficult to find a more beautiful location in which to encounter and contemplate the diverse spectrum of contemporary sculpture by over 60 different important Irish and International artists featured in The Secret Garden.
The Secret Garden show will include over 100 works in bronze, steel, timber and glass by a broad range of academic to abstract sculptors including; British artists Henry Moore (1898-1986), Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003), Kenneth Armitage, Barry Flanagan and Sean Henry; French artist Bernar Venet; American glass artist Dale Chihuly; and Ireland’s Rowan Gillespie, Patrick O’Reilly, Vivienne Roche, John Behan RHA and Michael Warren. The artworks will for two weeks temporarily reside in the Iveagh Gardens and thrive off their relationship to it, thus exhibiting sculpture’s unique power to enhance our understanding and appreciation of the spaces we inhabit. Sculpture is special in that it connects with the natural world in a way denied to painting and has an unparalleled ability to encompass a wide variety of forms, media, and experiences that is as colourful and as varied as life itself.
Solomon Gallery
Midsummer Garden Sculpture 21st June - 5th July 2008, organised by Gormleys Fine Art
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| Gravity Bronze, with bronze base 54 x 19.5 x 10" (137 x 50 x 25cm) |
On a Roll Bronze, with bronze base 58 x 22 x 10" (147 x 56 x 25cm) |
Gormleys Fine Art will host an International Sculpture Exhibition this summer in the beautiful setting of Brackenstown House. The Italian designers Alessandro Galilei and Stephen Switzer originally conceived the idea for the garden in 1719, under the instruction of Lord Molesworth. Garden designer Peter Donegan has in recent years developed the gardens to their present award-winning grandeur. The twenty-eight acres grounds are situated 5 minutes from Dublin Airport, combining the beauty of the natural landscape with eloquent creative design. The grounds provide the perfect setting for an International Sculpture Exhibition, with over 50 artists, combining life size pieces, and large installations of over 14 feet high, with smaller indoor sculpture pieces.
The Exhibition will explore the prominence of sculpture in Ireland over the past few decades, exhibiting well-established Irish and International names along with emerging young talents.
Artists such as John Behan, Edward Delaney have firmly established their names as Irish artists of international stature who has contributed a major part in the development of sculpture in Ireland over the last forty years. Artists such as Rita Duffy, Colm Brennan, Debbi O Heir, Ana Duncan, Patrick O Reilly or Eileen McDonagh continue to contribute to this rich legacy of Irish sculpture. Combined with International artists and emerging sculptors, Gormleys aims to present a sculpture exhibition, which is capable of bridging the cap between two generations of emerging and established artists, offering a significant overview of sculpture in Ireland.
Gormleys Fine Art
