(b Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, 11 May 1946). Irish sculptor. He attended the Crawford Municipal School of Art from 1964 to 1967, winning the Cork Arts Society Award in 1967 and the McCauley Fellowship in 1970. This took him to London, where he worked for a year as assistant to Bryan Kneale (b 1930). His study of early 20th-century Constructivism and of the work of David Smith led him to produce welded steel sculptures in which colour provided a final incidental and decorative element that disguised scrap-metal forms that would otherwise have been too readily recognizable. His interest in musical rhythm was manifested in the fluidity and counterpoint of form in sculptures such as Etsumi (1973; Belfast, Ulster Mus.), which create a sense of space enveloping the form irrespective of the organic volume.
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