Featuring All Forms Of Public Art
LOOKS LIKE A DERELICT BOAT TO ME
A sculptor and ceramic artist based in Dublin and Galway. At this moment he works mainly in steel, stainless steel and ceramic medium. I am convinced, having seen many examples of his work, that he likes to make large scale interactive pieces that invite a playful side to art.
CANON 1Ds MKIII AND CANON 5D MKIII
The name is new to me. Nigel Connell Bass is a British artist living in West Cork, Ireland and self-taught in a multitude of disciplines, Nigel is well known for his sculpture work in new and recycled metals, predominantly life-size depictions of birds and animals.
The exhibition began on the first day of September but I visited at the end of August and I used a Canon iDsMKIII camera coupled with a fully manual Voigtlander 40mm pancake lens and I liked the resulting images. The next day when I visited I had had a, newly purchased, Canon 5DIII fitted with the same Voigtlander and the resulting images were unusable because of focusing problems.
On the first of September I used the 5D fitted with a Sigma F4 24-105mm lens. As a result I have decided that using fully manual lenses with the 5D is a waste of time but the same lenses work very well with the 15 year old Canon 1DS MkIII [I do not know why]. The images from the second session are GEO tagged.
SCULPTURE IN CONTEXT 1 SEPTEMBER 2022
CATALOG ITEM: 51
Ana Duncan was born in Dublin. She works primarily in bronze and ceramic from her studio in Churchtown. The female figure has constantly been the subject and inspiration for her work. Amongst her influences are the abstraction of Henry Moore, the voluminous figures of Fernando Botero, Barbara Hepworth’s modernist work, the simplicity of Brancusi and the sculptures of Juan Muñoz among others.
She has recently completed several large scale public commissions in Jiangsu, China. In 2015 she completed a large-scale stainless steel public sculpture in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA. Other public commissions include a life size Mother and Child for Tallaght Hospital, Dublin.
