Eileen McDonagh

Title: Sea Buoy

Artist Name: Eileen McDonagh
Year of Installation: 1997
Dimensions: 2m diameter sphere
Medium: Limestone
Location: Harper's Island Bridge, Co Cork
Details of Commission:  Commissioned by Cork County Council with funding from the Per Cent for Art scheme for the Dunkettle / Carrigtwohill Road Project.

Title: Milk Churns 

Year of Installation: 1994
Dimensions: 1.8m x 1.25m. Diameter =.75m -.9m
Medium: Limestone
Location: Mallow Road, Co Cork
Details of Commission: Commissioned by Cork County Council with funding from the Per Cent for Art scheme for the new Cork to Mallow Road Scheme.

Artist Bio: Eileen MacDonagh was born in Sligo and has worked as a sculptor since the early 1980s. Her work has featured in many exhibitions, both in Ireland and abroad, including shows in Portugal, Scotland, India and Japan. Eileen has both organised and participated in many International symposia; her work is included in numerous collections, such as the OPW, Kilkenny and Cork County Councils, Marlay Park, Dublin and Tawara Newtown, Osaka, Japan.

McDonagh works mainly in stone to produce fascinating large scale sculptures. Due to the size of her work, she has tended to concentrate on public commissions rather than exhibiting in the context of the gallery.

Her first solo exhibition, Truss in 1992, showed works made from both wood and stone and garnered great reviews for the artist. This enabled McDonagh to make a name for herself as a sculptor capable of taking on large scale projects, and she has built up an astounding body of public art. Her pieces can be seen in Waterford, Tullamore, and Cork, as well as in Germany, Luxembourg and Japan.

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