Michael Warren Beneath the Bow 1991 IMMA

Michael Warren (born 1950 in

Gorey Gorey () is a market town in north County Wexford, Ireland. It is bypassed by the main N11 road (Ireland), M11 Dublin to Wexford road. The town is also connected to the Gorey railway station, railway network along the same route. Local newspape ...

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) is an Irish

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

who produces site-specific public art. Inspired by

Oisín Kelly Oisín Kelly (17 May 1915 – 12 October 1981) was an Irish sculptor. Life and career Oisín Kelly was born as Austin Kelly in Dublin, the son of William (Willy) Kelly, principal of the James Street National School, and his wife, Elizabeth ( ...

, his art teacher at St Columba's College, Michael Warren studied at Bath Academy of Art, at

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

and, from 1971 to 1975, 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.

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, where the civic offices stand, was the centre of

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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). With

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he created ''Tulach a' tSolais'' (Mound of Light), a memorial to the

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at Oulart Hill,

. 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

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was less popular with some local people and it was eventually removed and returned to the artist. At the northern entrance to the village of

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, is a sculpture by Michael Warren, depicting the thrones of the ancient seat of the Kings of South Leinster at Dinn Righ (The hill of the Kings). The Kings of Leinster lived near the village.

Work on display

* ''Cloch na gCoillte'' (2013)

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, County Cork, Ireland * ''Unbroken Line'' (2013)

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, Dublin, Ireland * ''Antaeus II'' (2010) Scott Cottage, Rossdohan, County Kerry, Ireland * ''Janus'' (2010) Western Gate Building,

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, Cork, Ireland * ''M-7 23, homage to

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II'' (2010) Department of Environment, Wexford, Ireland * ''Stele for

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'' (2009)

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, Waterford, Ireland * ''Obelisk'' (2009) Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre, Oldbridge Estate, County Meath, Ireland * ''Lieu de Rencontre'' (2008) Dar Sabre, Marrakech, Morocco * ''M-7 23'' (2008)

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, Zaragoza, Spain * ''Wave Form'' (2008) No1 Warrington Place, Dublin, Ireland * ''Reliquery'' (2007) St Dominic's College, Cabra, Dublin, Ireland * ''Go deo, homage to

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'',

, Ireland * ''Em Louvor dos Limites'' (2005)

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, Korea * ''Her Hair (II)'' (2003) Courtown Harbour, County Wexford, Ireland * Gateway (2002)

, County Dublin, Ireland * ''East Point'' (2001) East Point, Dublin, Ireland * ''Pasqua (III)'' (2001)

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, Spain * ''Ceatharloch'' (2001)

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, Ireland * ''Millennium Sculpture'' (2001) Radió Telefís Éireann, Dublin, Ireland * ''Dolmen'' (2000)

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, Dublin, Ireland * ''Almanac'' (2000)

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, Northern Ireland * ''Tulach a’ tSolais'' (1999) Oulart Hill, County Wexford, Ireland * ''Atlanticus'' (1999) County Buildings, Galway, Ireland * ''Pasqua (II)'' (1999) A&L Goodbody HQ,

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, Dublin, Ireland * ''El Arado y las Estrellas'' (1998) Metropolitan Park, Quito, Ecuador * ''Antaeus'' (1998), Devil's Glen, County Wicklow, Ireland * ''Chi (III)'' (1998) Rathdown School, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland * ''Her Hair'' (1997)

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, Dublin, Ireland * ''Hors les murs'' (1996) Clermont-Ferrand, France * ''Trade Winds'' (1996) Santo Tirso, Portugal * ''Ophelia'' ''(1st version)'' (1995) Dieudonné, Oise, France * ''Ophelia (2nd version)'' (1995) Castlelough, County Clare, Ireland * ''Alizes et tortues'' (1994) Lamentin, Guadeloupe, French West Indies * ''Wood Quay'' (1994) Civic Offices, Dublin, Ireland * ''Eena-Meena-Mina-Mo'' (1993)

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, Plano, Illinois, USA * ''Salmon Fall'' (1993)

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, Limerick, Ireland * ''Living Relic'' (1993)

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, County Louth, Ireland * ''A Full Moon in March'' (1992) Minamikata, Japan * ''Elegy to Light'' (1992) island of

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, Greece * ''Pagan Place'' (1991)

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, Principality of Andorra * ''Chi'' (1991) Allied Dunbar, Swindon, England * ''Throughway'' (1991)

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, Ireland * ''Beneath the ’bow'' (1991)

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, Dublin, Ireland * ''Chi'' (1990) Oloron Sainte-Marie, France * ''Journey Inland'' (1990)

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, Madrid, Spain * ''Thrones'' (1989) Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan * ''Bio-dynamics'' (1989) Conrad Hotel, Dublin, Ireland * ''Antigone'' (1988)

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, Seoul, Korea * ''De-creation'' (VI) (1987) Ferrybank, Wexford, Ireland * ''Timber Construction for Plano'' (1986)

, Plano, Illinois, USA * ''After Image'' (1986)

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, County Kilkenny, Ireland * ''Thrones'' (1986)

, County Carlow, Ireland * ''Countermovement'' (1985)

, Ireland * ''Void Anchored'' (1985)

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, Kilkenny, Ireland * ''Escultura Blanca'' (1985) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia * ''Articulation of Void'' (1985) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia * ''Broken Obelisk'' (1985)

Foxrock Foxrock () is an affluent suburb on the southside of Dublin, Ireland. It is within the county of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, in the postal district of Dublin 18 and in the Catholic parish of Foxrock. History The suburb of Foxrock was developed ...

, County Dublin, Ireland * ''Chi (I)'' (1984)

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, Belfast, Northern Ireland * ''Family'' (1983) Gilbey's of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland * ''Noche Oscura'' (1981) Dublin Port & Docks Board, Dublin, Ireland * ''De-creation'' (V) (1978) Radió Telefís Éireann, Dublin, Ireland

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Warren, Michael 1950 births Living people People from Gorey Aosdána members Irish male sculptors People educated at St Columba's College, Dublin 20th-century Irish sculptors 21st-century Irish sculptors Artists from County Wexford

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