Sculpture

THE HOME STATUE

October 20, 2022 by infomatique

FLAME OF HOPE BEHIND A DOOR AT LOWER BUCKINGHAM STREET IN DUBLIN

In 2000 when this was unveiled it was the world’s first memorial to victims of heroin addiction. The sculpture, entitled ‘Home’, was unveiled by President Mary McAleese.

The sculpture, which depicts a flame of hope behind a doorway, is at the junction of Buckingham Street and Sean McDermott Street near the Five Lamps, a site once notorious for open drug dealing. The memorial was designed in conjunction with relatives of those who have died from heroin.

Home (2000) is the work of Leo Higgins, chosen in competition with Brian Connolly, Annette Hennessy, Michael Quane, Jackie McKenna and Louise Walsh. Following a long period of collaboration with the community, the five artists exhibited maquettes in the Fire Station Artists’ Studios in July 1999. The winning piece, Home, was selected by the relatives and was erected at the junction of Lower Buckingham Street and Seán MacDermott Street.

HORSE RIDER AND A QUADRUPED BY MICHAEL QUANE RHA

October 20, 2022 by infomatique

SCULPTURE IN CONTEXT 2022

I just learned that a quadruped is an animal which has four feet, especially an ungulate mammal.

I have always found it difficult to photograph in this display area and things did not go much better this year. There was a school tour and the young children kept walking in front of the camera but they were having much fun so I cannot really complain.

Michael Quane was born in 1962. He now lives and works in West Cork adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean. He is drawn to the human binary of passion and prudence, risk and safety, and finds something of that exposed near to the proximity of the land with the sea. He lives here where he works, with his dog, Coco, well within the range of the Atlantic’s briney-mist and most days visits the strip on either side of its tidal breadth by kayak or on foot.