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Fiona Coffey | Ireland

 

 

 

My studio is surrounded by steep green fields, bordered with ancient hedgerows and tumbled stone walls. I watch the sheep move from The Haggard to The Four Acre, following lines only visible to themselves. I have only moments, fragments of time to capture the spirits of the sheep before they disappear to another field.

I create their forms in clay and horse dung, using ancient technologies known to man thousands of years ago. I cast them in bronze, letting the so-called imperfections of the materials speak for themselves.

These forms are to be played with, arranged, herded, gathered together, scattered - please handle them.

-Fiona Coffey, 2008

 

Biography

Born in Dublin, Ireland

1984 - Graduated from Limerick school of Art and Design.

1999-2005 - Part time lecturer in Ceramics, Dunlaoghaire Institute of Art and Design.

1989- present. Private ceramic commissions and studio work

Fiona is the Founder and Acting Director of Glendarragh Artists’ Studios. (http://homepage.eircom.net/~glendarraghartists/)

Selected Exhibitions include: 2007 Spreagadh. Group show Arts Centre Inis Oirr, Co.Galway 2007 West Cork Artists, Yard Gallery, Holywood, Co.Down 2006 Glendarragh Group Show, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co.Wicklow 2003 The Baileys Cow Sculpture Parade, Exhibition Dublin

Symposiums with Umha Aois (Experimental Bronze Age Casting) 2007 Inis Oirr, co.Galway 2006 An Cregan, N. Ireland 2005 Oilean Cleire, Co.Cork (Project Coordinator) 2004 Birr Castle, Co.Offaly (Project coordinator) 2003 Rathlin Island, N.Ireland 2001 Dingle, Co.Kerry

Private Collections in: Kenya, Australia, United States, UK, France

Current Work Ceramic mural with Liz McMahon, Castle Park , Dalkey Rathfarnham Percent for Art Scheme Coordinating Umha Aois symposium in Lejre, Denmark 2008
Artists Statement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sheep at Glendarragh (2007/8)
bronze, variable dimensions

 

 

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