Public Art

THE COIS NA LAOI SCULPTURE BY BETTY GOLD 1994

October 25, 2023 by infomatique

BESIDE THE RIVER LEE IN FITZGERALD PARK 2022

I usually have difficulty photographing this sculpture, in Fitzgerald Park, because children play on it but for some reason, maybe Covid-19 restrictions, there were very few children in the park when I visited in May 2022.

Betty Gold, a professional sculptor for more than 24 years, has worked in diverse media to create pieces that reflect her artistic focus on intensifying opposites. “I’ve always been interested in opposite ends of the spectrum, such as the contrast of my rugged, oversized, sandblasted outdoor steel sculptures with my indoor, delicate gold-leaf icon visuals.” Her works appear in more than 50 permanent installations and private collections throughout the world.

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ADAM AND EVE BY EDWARD DELANEY WAS NOT EASY TO PHOTOGRAPH

October 24, 2023 by infomatique

FITZGERALD PARK IN CORK CITY

I had difficulty photographing this as it blended in with the very green landscape

Sculpture of two modernistic figures, representing Adam and Eve.
As a matter of interest there is another sculpture “Eve With Apple” by Edward Delaney at the Irish Museum Of Modern Art in Dublin

Edward Delaney (1930–2009) was an Irish sculptor born in Claremorris in County Mayo in 1930. His best known works include the 1967 statue of Wolfe Tone and famine memorial at the northeastern corner of St Stephen’s Green in Dublin and the statue of Thomas Davis in College Green, opposite Trinity College Dublin. These are both examples of lost-wax bronze castings, his main technique during the 1960s and early 1970s.

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ANOTHER BLUE GENERIC METAL SCULPTURE IN CORK BY JOHN BURKE

June 17, 2023 by infomatique

REMASTERED AND PUBLISHED 17 JUNE 2023

I was at a distance when I noticed this blue sculpture so the photographs are not detailed. I came across the sculpture by accident as I was trying to find my way to St. Finbarr’s Cemetery. At the time there was too much traffic at the Wilton Roundabout so I decided that it would be better to return later in order to photograph the sculpture but as it began to rain during my visit to the cemetery I decided to get the 216 bus back to the city centre. Of course, the rain ceased the minute I boarded the bus. Unfortunately because of weather conditions I never got to revisit the sculpture.

If you refer to “Cork In 50 Artworks” you will discover that No 29 is John Burke’s sculpture at Wilton Roundabout.

The piece – 25 ft high and eight tons in weight – was commissioned by local businessmen Clayton Love and Séamus Gallagher to inaugurate the Cork 800 celebrations the following year.

According to a local newspaper the untitled sculpture was mistaken by many as a location marker for airplanes flying into Cork Airport.

Born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, in 1946, John Burke studied at the Crawford School of Art in Cork, and in London with Brian Kneal.

He has shown sculptures in all the major Irish group exhibitions, as well as international shows like Artists 77, New York (1977); 18 European Sculptors, Munich (1978); Sculpture Européenne, Brussels (1979); A Sense of Ireland, London (1980); and C.A.N., Cork (1985), where he won the sculptor prize. He has held solo shows at Trinity College, Dublin; the Ulster Museum, Belfast; the David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin; and an open-air show in Cork city.

His outdoor works include the abstract red steel sculpture at the Bank of Ireland building on Baggot Street, Dublin. I really like the one on Baggot Street.

THEIR GENERIC RED METAL SCULPTURE IS BLUE

June 17, 2023 by infomatique

THEY ARE DIFFERENT IN BLACKROCK ON THE LEE

SEE GENERIC METAL SCULPTURE AT UCC CAMPUS

I decided to reprocess this and other photographs from my 2022 visit to Cork using three AI apps that I am currently beta testing.

Every time I have seen this there have been signs of anti-social activity [assuming that graffiti is always anti-social] and that is not something that I would associate with Blackrock in Cork.

I searched online for information and unfortunately all links found were to photographs by myself or some comments that I have made about what are often referred to as red metal yokes. I should mention that in May 2022 I also came across a similar installation by John Burke at the Wilton Roundabout and it was also blue.

This type of generic sculpture is usually red and it came as a surprise to discover two in Cork that are blue especially as the people of Cork appear to have adopted red as their defining colour.

Note: In 1913 Cork wore blue jerseys with a large yellow “C” in front. In a 1919 raid in by British troops on the county board rooms in Cook Street, the jerseys were taken. So, Cork used the jerseys of the St Finbarr’s Total Abstinence Hall team, which were dark red/maroon, and Cork have worn red ever since. An apocryphal story claims that the colours derive from St Anne’s Church, Shandon, which has walls of red sandstone and white limestone.

Note: In Ireland it is often the case that the word ‘yoke’ doesn’t have anything to do with eggs. Rather, it is another way of saying thing. So if someone in Ireland sees an object that they’ve never seen before, they will commonly be heard to ask, What’s that yoke there? Example: Can you pass me that yoke you use to control the TV.