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Eilis O’Connell – Sprawl (2021) – bronze, edition of five.
Eilis O’Connell, Orla de Bri, Carol Hodder, Michael Quane, Melissa O’Donnell, Tom Climent, Comhghall Casey, Margaret Egan and Bridget Flinn are among the artists who feature at the Winter Group Show at the Solomon Gallery in Dublin. Paintings, sculpture and prints are on display and the show continues until December 22.
This 2021 unique Carrara marble sculpture by Eilis O’Connell entitled Thornmorph (maquette) is from Hardware / Software at the Solomon Gallery in Dublin until November 18. Working with materials like steel, bronze, stone and bio resins O’Connell explores material properties to make organic forms carved or constructed by hand. The title of this solo show – borrowed from Jack Burnham’s 1974 publication Great Western Salt Works: Essay’s on the meaning of Post-Formulist Art – refers to the dual aspects of an artist’s practice, physical and conceptual. The abstract watercolours on display mirror the sculpture. With an exhibition history that includes the Venice and Sao Paulo Biennales, the Guggenheim in Venice and E1027, the home designed by Eileen Gray in the South of France, O’Connell is one of our most internationally recognised contemporary artists,
Eilis O’Connell: A Family of Things, the first major survey exhibition of one of our most important contemporary artists, is at the F.E. McWilliam Gallery in Banbridge, Co. Down until September 30. It features unseen early sculptures and key examples from throughout the career of a renowned sculptor who is perhaps not celebrated enough at home. Supported by the Henry Moore Foundation the exhibition explores the development of O’Connell’s sculpture practice over almost five decades. Based in Cork O’Connell was born in Derry, studied in Cork and Boston and spent several decades working in England where she was celebrated for large scale sculptures in steel, stone and bronze. A member of Aosdana and an international Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors she has an extensive exhibition history at home and internationally and a founder member of the National Sculpture Factory in Cork.
Alpha, a cast and fabricated unique bronze by renowned Irish sculptor Eilis O’Connell made a hammer price of €2,400 at the James Adam timed online Mid-Century Modern sale in Dublin today. It had been estimated at €1,200-1,600. The sculpture was used as the invitation image for the 2015 exhibition Eilis O’Connell: Khôra at Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, An armchair by Eileen Gray made €3,400, a set of four rosewood chairs by Nils Otto Muller made €2,600, a 2003 oil on canvas, Transverse by Mark Francis, made €13,000, Interior with Wine Jar by Stephen McKenna made €11,000 and a chaise longue by le Corbusier made €2,400.
Materials Matter is the title of a new show by Eilis O’Connell RHA, one of Ireland’s leading artists, which opens at the Solomon Gallery in Dublin today and runs until June 19. The exhibition presents new sculpture and drawing made before and during the Covid pandemic, combining sculpture made in collaboration with skilled stone carvers in Pietrasanta, Italy and a range of self contained innovative work created within the limitations of lockdown. Using materials such as steel, bronze, stone and new bio resins, O’Connell explores different material properties to make hybrid organic geometric forms that she carves or constructs by hand.
Curve to Edge is the title of this bronze edition 1/3 by Eilis O’Connell RHA at the online Spring Group Show at Solomon Gallery in Dublin which opens today. It is priced at €55,000. The gallery remains temporarily closed to the public due to lockdown so the show, which runs to March 5, is mounted online. It features paintings, prints and sculpture by gallery and invited artists. The 2021 schedule at Solomon includes upcoming solo shows by Eilis O’Connell RHA, James Hanley RHA, Bridget Flinn and Margo Banks.
Eilis O’Connell – Capsule for Destinies Unknown
Capsule for Destinies Unknown, a 14 metre long sculpture by Eilis O’Connell, features at ARK at Chester Cathedral until October 15. ARK is a group exhibition based on the idea of shelter and refuge. More than 90 works by renowned artists like Lynn Chadwick, Elisabeth Frink, Antony Gormley, Barbara Hepworth, Damien Hirst, David Mach and Sarah Lucas are in the show curated by Gallery Pangolin.
