Adam's The Antoinette and Patrick J.Murphy Collection 23rd October 2019

85 www.adams.ie The Antoinette & Patrick J. Murphy Collection | 23rd October2019 72 CAROLYN MULHOLLAND RHA (B.1944) Little Fat Figure Bronze, 67cm high (26.3“) Signed with initials and dated 1995 Edition 9/9 Provenance: With the Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin. Literature: Another cast of this piece was illustrated in ‘Artists Century’ catalogue, 2000, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast. € 3,000 - 5,000 Carolyn Mulholland was born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh in 1944 and studied at the Belfast College of Art before embarking on her career as a noted bronze sculptor. One of her earliest commissions came from the young poet Seamus Heaney with whom she became close friends. Since then she has completed many major sculpture commis- sions in both the North and South of Ireland and some of her outstanding recent portrait com- missions include a posthumous bust of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty and the official portrait of Presi- dent Mary McAleese. She has exhibited widely at home and abroad, including the European Com- mission in Brussels, Jorgensen Fine Art and the Peppercanister Gallery in Dublin. She was elected a member of Aosdána in 1990 and was awarded the Irish-American Cultural Institute O’Malley Award in 1992. Since then she has carried out numerous commissions and exhibits regularly at the annual exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy, of which she is a member. She now lives and works in Dublin.