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Sunday Business Post – Kintsugi: finding pure beauty in broken things
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SUNDAY INDEPENDENT- KINTSUGI EXHIBITION @ GORMLEYS
Patrick O'Reilly's energy and versatility are evident. There's his carved ash 'Emmental Table', the tabletop-shaped slice of Swiss cheese, his abstract oil on canvases, a sculpture called 'Rush Hour' made from scissors, the small, playful bronze bear sculptures, the...
PATRICK O’REILLY – KINTSUGI EXHIBITION @ GORMLEYS FINE ART
Gormleys Fine Art is delighted to host “Kintsugi”, an exhibition of new works by renowned Irish sculptor, Patrick O’Reilly. This new body of work is inspired by “Kintsugi” (Golden Repair), the Japanese art of putting broken objects back together; by mending the areas...
SUNDAY BUSINESS POST – CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION
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Patrick O’Reilly at Mayfair Art Week
Patrick O’Reilly Bear With Fire Bucket Bronze, 170 x 147 cm Presented by Gormley’s Fine Art Gormley’s Fine Art (Dublin) are presenting three works by Patrick O’Reilly for the Mayfair Sculpture exhibition. Bear with Bucket skips along just outside the entrance to The...
SUNDAY BUSINESS POST – PATRICK O’REILLY IN LONDON
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IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, 4 MAY – 29 SEPTEMBER 2018, GALLERY VALLOIS, NEW YORK
Gallery Vallois New York will present ‘In Search of Lost Time’, a solo exhibition of Irish sculptor Patrick O’Reilly. The exhibition will open on the 4th May and will continue until the 29th September 2018. The exhibition will highlight a selection of his most recent...
Patrick O’Reilly at Adare Manor
Adare Manor Hotel have welcomed a monumental new bronze artwork by Patrick O’Reilly to their grounds. The piece represents a large bear skipping across the launched golf course. The large work was unveiled after St Patrick’s Day as part of the nationwide celebrations....
Patrick O’Reilly: making hay and other art that shines
Patrick O’Reilly’s wild eclecticism can be perplexing, but his latest work, a giant haystack in a church, is a thrilling success. How often is it that you smell a work of art before you see it? Patrick O’Reilly’s Haystack (The Consideration of the Planets , 2013),...
Happiness in a can: sculptor keen to brighten up lives
ALMOST HALF a century after Andy Warhol signalled the birth of pop art with Campbell’s Soup cans, the tin can is still making shapes in the art world in the form of a 10m cathedral by artist Patrick O’Reilly. The towering sculpture contains between 4,000 and 5,000...
The bearable lightness of being
With a church for a studio, sacred music turned up loud and nights sometimes spent in the confession box, it’s no wonder that sculptor Patrick O’Reilly feels he is finding out ‘what’s in my soul that I really want to say’ NIBBLING GRAPES, smoking cigarettes and...