Active/Inactive: Sculpture and Women in the Hugh Lane Gallery Collection
Our partner, the Hugh Lane Gallery, presents this talk by UCD Emeritus Professor Paula Murphy on Sculpture and Women in the gallery collection.
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This section features articles on sculpture and sculpture in Dublin. Currently, we have Professor Paula Murphy’s ‘Looking at Public Sculpture in Dublin’, which provides an overview of sculpture in the city and includes many illustrations of important works. Over the weeks ahead, in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy, Sculpture Dublin will publish a series of essays and artists’ biographies from Sculpture 1600-2000, Volume 3 in the RIA’s 5-volume publication, Art and Architecture of Ireland (Yale, 2014).
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#TALK SCULPTURE
Sculpture Dublin invites you to see, talk & make sculpture!
We have reached out to artists and curators, who, through their practice or research, have an interest in sculpture in broad terms and in various contexts; historical, contemporary and yet to be imagined.
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PORTRAIT SCULPTURE
The sculpted portrait in Ireland is, in European terms, a comparatively late arrival, a fact that in no way diminishes its historical significance. This applies to the period before 1917, whether it is considered within the integral context of British sculpture as a whole, or as a phenomenon in its own right.
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LETTERING AND INSCRIPTIONS
If words are the vehicles of thought, writing, and its more formal representation in lettering, perpetuates them and prevents them from vanishing into space and time. The individual letter, though used casually in our everyday life, is the highest means of expression available to the human mind and is the currency in which our civilization is recorded.
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