Kildare Gallery

Dawn Conn is an international figurative sculptor, born in New Zealand and presents her pieces Summer and Diving into the Ocean of Life in the exhibition. Her bronze and resin sculptures can now be found in private and public collections in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, France, Germany, Finland, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, USA, UK and Ireland. In 2020 Dawn won the BBC1’s ‘Home Is Where The Art Is’ with her original sculpture.

Anna Campbell is an Irish sculptor, born in Newry, County Down in the North of Ireland. She studied sculpture at the Crawford College of Art in Cork and in the early nineties she moved to England, where she worked for four years at Pangolin Editions, Gloucester. Her own bronze sculptures, whether they feature figures or animals, as her subject matter are characterised by their elegant modelling and highly distinctive and unique patination, a skill that she still employs for Cast Foundry in Dublin, where she continues to work.

Anna has also received many awards for her bronze sculpture in Ireland, including the Penn Chemicals, Cork Award, the Iontas Small Works Exhibition Award, and the Sculpture in Context Award.

Dublin based Bob Quinn sculptures can be described as figurative, his art is expressionist and his deep knowledge of anatomy allows him to abstract the human form and make the simplest of observation.

His lifelong influences have been Epstein, Marini and Giacometti and painters such as Millet and Degas. His current work is a celebration of the drama and the nobility of the most ordinary of human activity.

Originally from Kilkenny Liam Butler now lives and works in the West of Ireland, where he works alongside his two sons Ronan and Davin, both sculptors.

He is a completely self-taught, technically brilliant sculptor. His tools are no more than a welding torch and a hammer. Liam’s signature style of highly polished copper alongside heavily textured patination makes his work recognisable anywhere. Growing up alongside their father in the workshop both Ronan & Davin from a young age began sculpting. Liam has passed on his craft to both his sons who are talented artists in their own right.

All are inspired by the natural elegance in their immediate environment, species of birds, trees, & flowers. In recent years, willingness to experiment and a growth in confidence has seen an explosion of new subject matter especially the natural beauty of the windswept landscape of the West of Ireland and figurative pieces.