Award for Autumn Shoes

Sculpture in context is the largest outdoor sculpture exhibition in Ireland and is currently taking place in the National Botanic Gardens.  Andrea Cleary, member of the Education Department (Visual Art) St Patrick’s College is one of the exhibiting artists.  Her sculpture Autumn Shoes won an award as Large Sculpture of Distinction, awarded by the Sculpture in Context Committee (Ken Drew, Ana Duncan, Beatrice Stewart, James Gannon and Cliodna Cussen).  Cleary’s sculpture uses the medium of felted wool fibres, and is based on the idea that we all leave marks on places we have been.  This particular idea sprouted from the imaginative concept, that anything that pierces the soil, leaves a mark or DNA and the following year in the space where the piercing took place, a version of that same thing grows up.  In this case they were stiletto shoes, thus the title Autumn Shoes.

This sculpture is on view in the Curvilinear Glasshouse Range. The exbhibition, with works of sculptors from Ireland, US, UK, Netherlands, Hungary, France, Canada, Norway and Estonia, presents 123 works in a range of materials including glass, bronze, concrete, ceramic, fibre and steel, with a special entry by the Children of Chernobyl.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: Wednesday September 19 2007