ADAM'S - Important Irish Art Auction - 31st May 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

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Kilkenny Limestone, Height 90 cm (35.5”)

Provenance: From the Collection of the late Gillian Bowler.

Exhibited: “Cathy Carman Second Solo Exhibition:

Images of an Island

”, The Grafton Gallery, Dublin, February/

March 1987, Catalogue No.1, where purchased by Gillian Bowler.

“My work explores an interior landscape of myth and spirit, seeking poetic light in the female form. My figures

shoulder burdens of loss, or are lifted in joy, by love and belonging.

Shine Silently and Leap -

I carved this sculpture from a single block of limestone in Mc Keon’s Stone Yard during

the winter of 1986. In this carving I was influenced by the many stories of the poet Nuala Ni Dhonaill on the

folklore of ‘Sheila na Gigs ‘. I was looking to express optimism and a defiant sense of self.”

Cathy Carman April 2017

€ 1,500 - 2,500