Many of the artists producing ecclesiasticial art in Ireland today are well known within their own fields of practise. Below are a selection of those who have been interviewed to-date for the oral history project.
Location: Artists Studio 2012
Artist: Brid ni Rinn
Practise: Sculptor and Painter
'We didn't get degrees in those days, but we got a better education according to myself, a better art education, according to myself. A better classical art education' (ni Rinn interview 2012)
Practise: Sculptor and Painter
'We didn't get degrees in those days, but we got a better education according to myself, a better art education, according to myself. A better classical art education' (ni Rinn interview 2012)
Location: Artists Home 2012
Artist: Clidona Cussen
Practise: Sculptor
'Michael Kane, and Sean Kelly and I think Brian Bourke founded the Independent Artists. So these were the same people that were going to change the world of Irish art. Which they succeeded in doing...' (Cussen Interview 2012)
Practise: Sculptor
'Michael Kane, and Sean Kelly and I think Brian Bourke founded the Independent Artists. So these were the same people that were going to change the world of Irish art. Which they succeeded in doing...' (Cussen Interview 2012)
Location: Artists Studio 2012
Artist: Imogen Stuart
Practise: Sculptor
'You see there is one problem here in Ireland now. People get very modern. You are learning completly different things now.... And their inclined, anything that is past hasn't any value any more. Or they don't really value it....But, em, the general out look of, in, I would say in museums and colleges it's all for the most recent, latest work, latest art trend' (Stuart interview, 2012)
Practise: Sculptor
'You see there is one problem here in Ireland now. People get very modern. You are learning completly different things now.... And their inclined, anything that is past hasn't any value any more. Or they don't really value it....But, em, the general out look of, in, I would say in museums and colleges it's all for the most recent, latest work, latest art trend' (Stuart interview, 2012)
Location: Artists Studio 2012
Artist: Patrick Pye
Practise: Painter and Stained Glass Artist
'Oh, and I was delighted, it was my first big job really, big job [windows for The Convent of Mercy, Cookstown, N.Ireland]. Eh, the sixties, we smuggled the windows into the North and I remember... we had breakfast, we had choclate and cogniac on the steps of Armagh Catholic Cathedral' (Pye interview, 2012)
www.patrickpye.com
Practise: Painter and Stained Glass Artist
'Oh, and I was delighted, it was my first big job really, big job [windows for The Convent of Mercy, Cookstown, N.Ireland]. Eh, the sixties, we smuggled the windows into the North and I remember... we had breakfast, we had choclate and cogniac on the steps of Armagh Catholic Cathedral' (Pye interview, 2012)
www.patrickpye.com
Location: Artists Studio 2012
Artist: Noel Hoare
Practise: Sculpture
'The other thing I actually love about granite, granite was the dust of the cosmos. You know the way the earth was formed as a red ball, what comes out of the air in the form of lava ends up as granite' (Hoare interview, 2012)
www.noelhoare.ie
Practise: Sculpture
'The other thing I actually love about granite, granite was the dust of the cosmos. You know the way the earth was formed as a red ball, what comes out of the air in the form of lava ends up as granite' (Hoare interview, 2012)
www.noelhoare.ie
Location: Artists Studio date unknown
Artist: Phyllis Burke
Practise: Stained Glass
'Well I was at the college doing painting and drawing, em, I did some sculpture. This was at night time now at the college. Right. I couldn't go in the day time.... Night classes in those days were considered more, the people were very serious about their work, very interested' (Burke interview, 2012)
Practise: Stained Glass
'Well I was at the college doing painting and drawing, em, I did some sculpture. This was at night time now at the college. Right. I couldn't go in the day time.... Night classes in those days were considered more, the people were very serious about their work, very interested' (Burke interview, 2012)
