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Profile of Michael Warren
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South Bend, Indiana, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Michael Warren (Born Gorey, Co. Wexford, Ireland 1950) is an Irish sculptor who produces site-specific public art.
Inspired by OisÃn Kelly, his school art teacher, Michael Warren studied at Bath Academy of Art, at Trinity College, Dublin and, from 1971-75, at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. He now lives and works in Co. Wexford.
He has a number of very visible works in Ireland, including the large sweeping wood sculpture in front of the Dublin Civic Offices. Wood Quay, where the civic offices stand, was the centre of Viking Dublin and the sculpture evokes the form, and the powerful grace, of a Viking ship. It also reflects vertically the horizontal sweep of the nearby Liffey as it enters its bay. A complex balance of meanings matching a delicate, though massive, balance of substance is typical of his work. Warren himself describes the useful ambiguity of abstraction (Hill 1998)
- "Whatever you might intend a form to suggest, people will find its significance from within their own culture, so that something that is read as a reference to Viking longboats in Dublin, is seen as evoking the art of calligraphy when viewed in Japan"
With Roland Tallon he created Tulach a' tSolais (Mound of Light), a memorial to the 1798 rebellion. Here, a room was hollowed out of a small hill; the room contains two abstract curved oak forms and is illuminated by natural light falling through a long slot in its ceiling and walls. Despite the unusual and abstract constitution of this memorial and despite the fraught political resonance of the rebellion, Tulach a' tSolais is popular and something of a local attraction. His Gateway in Dun Laoghaire is less popular with some local people calling for it to be removed.
Work on display
- Gateway (2002) Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin
- A Pagan Place (1991) Encamp, Principality of Andorra
- Bronze Arch (2003) Gongju, Korea
- Tulach a' tSolais (1999) Oulart Hill, Co Wexford
- Throughway (1991) University College Dublin
- Beneath the 'bow (1991) Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
- Untitled (1985) College Park, Trinity College, Dublin.
- Wood quay (1995) Dublin Civic Offices.
References and external links
- Artist's own website
- Biographical note on the RTÉ website
- Aosdána biographical note
- Suzanne McNab (2002) Warren, Michael in Brian Lalor (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillian. ISBN 0-7171-3000-2
- Judith Hill (1998) Irish public sculpture. Dublin: Four Courts Press. ISBN 1-85182-274-7
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