LAURENCE OF SCULPTURE: Laurence Campbell (1911-2001)

There are a few things you Irish are not good at... But sculptors! Surely not? There's a man there at the back of Pembroke Road. Laurence Campbell is his name, unexcelled in respect of his craft, an artist of sensibility and achievement, a Dublin man as well. So wrote Myles na gCopaleen in Aug...

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Published in:Irish arts review (2002) 2021-10, Vol.38 (3), p.112
Main Author: Murphy, Paula
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Campbell, Laurence
Freedoms
Independence
Irish culture
Sculpture
Visual artists
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Summary:There are a few things you Irish are not good at... But sculptors! Surely not? There's a man there at the back of Pembroke Road. Laurence Campbell is his name, unexcelled in respect of his craft, an artist of sensibility and achievement, a Dublin man as well. So wrote Myles na gCopaleen in Aug 1954, when Campbell, who had established a successful career in sculpture, was working from his studio in Baggot Lane in Dublin. Two years later he had left - not only the studio, but Ireland. In the early decades of Irish independence sculptors were in demand, producing religious sculpture for old and new churches and political work confirming the new freedom and remembering those who had achieved it. There was work, too, in architectural sculpture to adorn and even sometimes elucidate new buildings.
ISSN:1649-217X