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.
