The Irish Museum of Modern Art’s Hilary Heron: A Retrospective is an exhibition of some 60 works celebrating the pioneering work of modernist sculptor Hilary Heron (1923 – 1977). This is the first major retrospective exhibition of Heron’s work since 1964.
Heron was a Dublin born sculptor who co-represented Ireland at the 1956 Venice Biennale alongside painter Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916 – 2012). The exhibition brings together work from national and international collections, including carvings, welding and castings.
Heron was a master welder, a practice highly unusual for an Irish artist, let alone a woman in the 1950s. Her work tactfully and skilfully broaches themes of gender, relationships, deep histories and religion through impressive, varied mediums including stone, lead, steel and wood.
Museum visit details: Please meet outside the IMMA Garden Galleries building at 2:30pm on Friday 13th September.
If you are approaching from the east entrance to IMMA off Military Road, the stand-alone building is on the right, before you enter the courtyard.
IMMA is approximately a 30 to 40 minute walk from the city centre, and an 8 minute walk from the transport hub at Heuston Station, which has a LUAS stop outside. Dircections to IMMA are online here.
This event is exclusive to RHA Friends only. Join the RHA Friends.
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Image: Hilary Heron varnishing Crazy Jane III (1958) at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1958. Image courtesy of the estate of Hilary Heron.