Eilis O'Connell (b.1953)
The Square within the Box
Resin, 14 x 17 x 17cm (5½ x 6¾ x 6¾")

Eilis OConnell was born in Derry in 1953. She studied at the Crawford School of Art in Cork from 1970...

Eilis O'Connell (b.1953)
The Square within the Box
Resin, 14 x 17 x 17cm (5½ x 6¾ x 6¾")

Eilis OConnell was born in Derry in 1953. She studied at the Crawford School of Art in Cork from 1970 to 1974 before spending a year at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She quickly rose to prominence as one of Irelands outstanding young artists and won a succession of awards including a GPA Award for Emerging Artists 1981, a fellowship in Rome 1983-84, a fellowship at PSI in New York in 1987-8 and subsequent residencies in France and Spain. Her work was purchased for many public and private collections and her sculptures were exhibited in the Rosc 84 International Exhibition in Dublin. Thereafter she resided for some time in the UK and won many major sculpture commissions including Secret Station, a bronze, fibre optics and steam configuration for Cardiff Bay Art Trust in 1992. She now lives and works in Co. Cork and continues to explore a range of materials and processes from which she creates her most imaginative avant-garde art. She has shown widely at Irish art galleries and her sculptures and mixed media works of art are in many private and public collections.

 

 

 

 

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