John Behan (sculptor)
John Behan | |
---|---|
Born | 1938 (age 85–86) |
Nationality | Irish |
Education | National College of Art and Design Ealing Art College |
Occupation | Sculptor |
John Behan (born 1938) is an Irish sculptor from Dublin.
Career
Behan studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, and Ealing Art College, London, as well as Oslo's Royal Academy School.[1] He is a member of Aosdána.
Behan helped establish the Project Arts Centre in Dublin in 1967, and the Dublin Art Foundry.[1] He also participated in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and shows at the Royal Hibernian Academy.[1]
Selected works
Notable Behan sculptures include Arrival, commissioned by the Irish government and presented to the United Nations in 2000,[1] and Wings of the World in Shenzhen, China, 1991.
In the mid-1990s, Behan was commissioned by the Irish government to create a National Famine Memorial that would encompass the magnitude of the suffering and loss endured by the people of Ireland during the Famine period.[2] The memorial, located in Murrisk, County Mayo, was unveiled by Mary Robinson on 20 July 1997.[3][1]
The Liberty Tree sculpture in Carlow, designed by John Behan, commemorates the 1798 Rising of the United Irishmen. Several hundred rebels were slain in Carlow town and their remains are buried in the 'Croppies Grave', in Graiguecullen, County Carlow.[4]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e John Behan Profile Arts Council.
- ^ "National Famine Memorial, Murrisk in Co. Mayo". mayo-ireland.ie. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
- ^ "The Famine Memorial, Murrisk 1997. - Lyons00-21057.jpg". library.mayo.ie. 6 January 1997. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
- ^ "The Liberty Tree". Carlow Town.com. Archived from the original on 17 November 2007. Retrieved 9 December 2007.
Further reading
- Hourican, Emily (29 October 2018). "I don't give a damn what age I am, I want to do this..." Irish Independent.
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from November 2020
- Use Hiberno-English from April 2023
- All Wikipedia articles written in Hiberno-English
- Articles with hCards
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1938 births
- Living people
- Irish sculptors
- Aosdána members
- 20th-century Irish sculptors
- Irish male sculptors
- 20th-century Irish male artists
- 21st-century Irish sculptors
- 21st-century Irish male artists
- Alumni of the National College of Art and Design