A unique opportunity to meet the artist, Vivienne Roche RHA and enjoy an insightful talk and tour of her major exhibition Abridged, now showing in the RHA Gallagher Gallery.
Over her long career as an artist, Vivienne Roche RHA has contributed in many ways to the arts in, and from, Ireland. Her works of public art range from her early-career memorial sculpture to President Cearbhall O’Dalaigh in Sneem (1983), through creations such as Liberty Bell (1988) and Sentinel (1994) outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin to major pieces such as Flow (2002) in the Council Chamber of Fingal County Hall, NC Iris (2006) outside the National College of Ireland Dublin, and Whitelight Garden (2006) in Park West, Dublin.
Sculpturally, Roche has worked with such media as steel, bronze, glass, wax, plaster, landscape, light and time, as well as with found materials such as those gifted by the tides near her home in Garrettstown, Co Cork. She has taken her inspiration from sea and shore, wind and light, architecture and engineering, and has addressed issues ranging from climate change to the echoes of medieval archaeology. All are emotionally filtered through her own autobiography.
