My heart always sinks when I hear that distinctive clink and clack of an excavator bucket and the whurrr and trundle of its tracks, as it usually means that a hedgerow is being removed and/or some beautiful bit of wildness and habitat is being scrubbed […]
I’ve been very busy working on the Hollywoodrath Commission, so busy in fact that I have neglected to blog about it. I am three quarters finished and I intend do a series of posts of my progress before I install, which should be in early […]
I was invited in the spring to submit for a sculpture commission for a housing development in north Co. Dublin. To my delight I was awarded with the commission in early summer and it has kept me very busy all summer and will do well […]
The annual “Richard Scott Sculpture @ Ballymaloe” opened at Ballymaloe House, Shanagarry, Co. Cork on Thursday 21st June 2018. It was a beautiful summers evening for the opening. Forty sculptures, mainly stone and some bronze are on show in the park lands of Ballymaloe. I […]
I spent much of the winter grinding away at Fucus II. I took me way longer and became more complicated than I intended. I think I just got carried away. It went to the annual “Richard Scott Sculpture @ Ballymaloe” (21st June to 3rd September 2017) where Richie […]
Sculpture in Context opens on Wednesday 7th September 2016 at 6.30pm at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. The show runs until the 21st of October 2016. All Welcome. My “Sycamore Wing” is on show in the gallery there.
I was exiled to the far west of Ireland for the last couple of years. The sea, the sea, the wild Atlantic was on my door step and the ever-present roar of the wind (especially last winter). So my influences have been maritime hence, the […]
In the summers of 2013 and 2014, I exhibited with “FORM” organised by Richard Scott of “Artistic Alliance”. This year it was held at Ballymaloe, Co. Cork. The summer show ran from 28 June to 28 September 2014. My “Excavations” piece has been show both […]
Cathy had some film footage of when I was carving the “Cherries” last year and now she has made a small film for me . Thanks cathy!!
At the begining of the summer I was informed by Wexford Co. Council Arts Department that I had won the percent for Art Commision for Cherryorchard Housing scheme. This was a great thrill for me. This is the first commission that I have won so […]
The Shamrock plaza is a new building which has replaced what was known as Doyles of the Shamrock hardware, located at the main cross roads of the Dublin/Kilkenny road and Tullow street. Monaco Properties (who developed the new building) invited submissions for a work(s) […]
Work for CherryOrchard Per Cent for Art Commission, Enniscorthy, originally uploaded by lyttlemartin.
