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SEAHORSE BY JESSICA CHECKLEY

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SCULPTURE IN CONTEXT 2 SEPTEMBER 2021

I am publishing a number of photographs from the the 2021 Sculpture In Context exhibition now as I had been unable to identify the artists.

Jessica completed her studies in 3D design, model making and digital arts in 2019 learning to work with a wide variety of materials and tools. This combined with the skills and knowledge she gained as a wax work technician and mold maker in bronze art has influenced the work that she currently produces. Here sculpture is intricate and detailed.

BEST NIGHT EVER BY BOB QUINN

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BOTANIC GARDENS DUBLIN AFTER DARK

These two ladies can also be seen at City West … they really do get around.

I photographed these ladies today because I wanted to see how well the old Canon 5D MKIII operated in the dark.

Born in 1948, Bob Quinn enjoyed a long career within the Irish advertising business as a commercial artist, visualiser and designer before becoming a full-time sculptor in 2002. Bob’s sculptures celebrate the drama and nobility in often the most ordinary of human activity. The sadness, the humour, the joy. He likes to explore the theatrical quality of three-dimension and is particularly interested in the dramatic importance of light and shadow, and how the colour and appearance of surface texture constantly changes.

He enjoys the laborious bronze process, working from preparatory drawings to creating the clay original, finally reaching the bronze casting stage where the texture, patina and the permanence of the final sculpture is created.

Bob has completed many private and public commissions including West Meath County Council, the National Stud, Kildare, City West Business Park.

REMNANT ECOLOGIES BY JONY EASTERBY

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I WAS LEFT IN THE DARK IN THE BOTANIC GARDENS

Today I attended two “culture night” events. The second one was at 8PM in the Botanic Gardens and it was a light show and it was difficult to photograph as I was not permitted to use a tripod of a flash.

The event was presented by Dublin Fringe Festival in partnership with National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin and axis: Ballymun. With support from the Welsh Government Office in Ireland.

This meditative and immersive night-walk will guide you through a series of light and sound installations, exploring Dublin’s iconic Botanic Gardens as you have never seen them before.

Responding to our relationship with the natural world, these intimate artworks explore the cultural remnants humans have created through our love of nature. Empty bird cages, a playful song, the insides of cuckoo clocks and fragments from botanical dictionaries are intertwined, telling their story through unforgettable sound and light installations in the serene surroundings of the gardens after dark.

This is one artist’s attempt to make sense of a world, in which a passion for nature is mixed with an anxiety for its future.

Presented by Dublin Fringe Festival in partnership with National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin and axis: Ballymun. With support from the Welsh Government Office in Ireland.

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