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Marian O’Donnell
is an Irish artist, born in Westport, now living in Maynooth. Over
the last twenty years, O’Donnell has used a wide variety of
materials to create
land-art, temporary installations, permanent sculptures and gallery
pieces. Her work can be seen in Ireland in many contemporary exhibitions
and collections. She was artist initiator for the Tír Sáile
Sculpture Trail in North Mayo, in the context of which she created
Acknowledgement, a 45 metre long stone and earth sculpture on Claggan
Island. Other smaller commissions can also be seen in County Mayo.
Closer to County Offaly, is her sculpture Water the Life-giver,
which is located in the town centre of Bagenalstown, County Carlow.
O’Donnell
has worked and exhibited abroad in France, Germany and Denmark,
where one of her projects was the construction of a land-art piece
in Krakamarken Sculpture Park, near Aarhus. In New Zealand she had
her first solo show in the Dunedin Art Gallery and created a sculpted
courtyard with stone and bronze in Porirua School of Art, North
Island. The Saskatchewan Prairie in Canada was the unlikely siting
of one of her stone sculptures, inspired by the Irish heritage of
dry-stone wall building.
As a board member
of the Sculptors’ Society of Ireland for seven years, O’Donnell
was involved in the organization of many exhibitions, seminars and
educational art projects. She has participated in different types
of material-based sculpture symposia, both of an exploratory nature
and for the creation of permanent work. Site-specific sculpture,
where the piece is inspired by, and created in response to, its
location remains one of her main artistic preoccupations.
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