SCULPTURE BY ANTHONY GORMLEY
Installed at University of Limerick 21 February 2001
When I got the opportunity to explore the Limerick University Campus in July 2016 I was impressed by much of the public art that was on display and I especially liked this.
If you visit Limerick you may come across a department store operating under the name “Brown Thomas” but when students mention “Brown Thomas” they could well be referring to this sculpture by Anthony Gormley.
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley OBE RA (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool; and Event Horizon, a multipart site installation which premiered in London in 2007, around Madison Square in New York City, in 2010, in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2012, and in Hong Kong in 2015–16.
In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked Gormley number four in their list of the “100 most powerful people in British culture”
Established in 1849 by haberdashers and drapers, Hugh Brown and James Thomas, Brown Thomas was from the outset, a name that is synonymous with luxury, integrity and beauty.
By the mid 1850’s Brown Thomas had established itself as a landmark store on Dublin’s main through fair Grafton Street, with customers returning for a retail experience that was stylish, sophisticated and brimming with flair.
In 1919 Brown Thomas changed hands: Harry Gordon Selfridge, the legendary American bought the Store and brought Brown Thomas into the 20th Century. In 1933, the Store reverted to Irish hands when it was bought by John McGuire and his sons. Surviving two world wars and a civil unrest that tore through the country, the store remained steadfast, through good times and bad, a reliable icon of grace and good taste.
In 1971, over a century after Brown Thomas first opened its doors, Galen and Hilary Weston bought the iconic premises on Grafton Street and set about transforming it into a store to rival the best in the world.
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