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The Light Behind the Written Word

Exhibition of Bronze Sculptures
by John Coll
March 10th 1998

Official Opening by Loretta Brennan Glucksman (The Ireland Fund)

Ogham Speaks - John Coll

Ogham Speaks
96x26x24"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 5)
£60,000
The Hostage - John Coll

The Hostage
(After Brian Keenan)
64x10x8"
Welded Bronze & Steel (Unique)
£7,000
Every Old Man I See - John Coll

Every Old Man I See
(Based on a Patrick Kavanagh poem)
24x18x6"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£4,500
Van Gogh On The Road - John Coll

Van Gogh On The Road
30x16x11"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£8,500
Bell Beat - John Coll

Bell Beat
(Based on The Wild Swans of Coole by W. B. Yeats)
30x10x6"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£5,200
Come Away O Human Child - John Coll

Come Away O Human Child
(Based on a W. B. Yeats poem)
24x10x8"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£6,000
Heaney/Sweeney/Heaney - John Coll

Heaney/Sweeney/Heaney
22x12x10"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£6,000
Paul Durcan - John Coll

Paul Durcan
15x10x7"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 3)
£6,300
Beckett Open Work Head - John Coll

Beckett Open Work Head
13x9x8"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£5,200
Shem The Penman (James Joyce) - John Coll

Shem The Penman (James Joyce)
10x10x8"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£2,500
Lafcadio Hearn - John Coll

Lafcadio Hearn
18x12x11"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£5,000
A Pint Of Plain Is Your Only Man - John Coll

A Pint Of Plain Is Your Only Man
(Based on a Flann O'Brien ballad)
12x6x4"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 18)
£2,500
Making The Deal - John Coll

Making The Deal
(Based on M'Asal Beag Dubh by Padraic O'Conaire)
10x14x9"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£4,250
Leaving Kinvara - John Coll

Leaving Kinvara
(Based on M'Asal Beag Dubh by Padraic O'Conaire)
24x12x9"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£2,000
The Farewell - John Coll

The Farewell
(Based on M'Asal Beag Dubh by Padraic O'Conaire)
10x10x9"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£9,000
Is It About A Bicycle? - John Coll

Is It About A Bicycle?
(Based on The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien)
11x13x6"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£3,500
Brendan Behan - John Coll

Brendan Behan
11x4x4"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£1,750

Ogham Speaks Maquette
12x4x4"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 25)
£2,500

The Oul Triangle
70x17x17"
Cast Bronze & Steel (Ed. of 9)
£4,250

St. Kevin & the Black Bird
(Based on a Seamus Heaney poem)
10x12x5"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£2,800

Sunflower Man (Vincent Van Gogh)
24x24x24"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£5,700

Happy Days
(Based on the Samuel Beckett play)
21x9x9"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£2,800

Táin Bulls
(Based on the saga, The Cattle Raid of Cooley)
6x10x10"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£3,500

Study of Seamus Heaney
14x7x8"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 18)
£2750

James Joyce
11x4x4"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£1,750

Bunnán Buí
25x12x10"
Welded Brass, Bronze And Copper (Unique)
£2,300

Maquette for Memorial to Patrick Kavanagh
8x10x12"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 18)
£2,800

Seamus Heaney
11x4x4"
Cast Bronze (Ed. of 9)
£1,750

The Kenny Gallery, Galway, Ireland, in conjunction with Allied Irish Bank in New York, hosted "The Light Behind the Written Word", an exhibition of bronze sculpture by John Coll which took place in the AIB, 405 Park Avenue, New York from March to May 1998.

"The seeds of inspiration for this show were sown in that untilled field that is the schoolboy's mind. When I first encountered the works of Yeats, Kavanagh, Hopkins, etc., it was the images that the words inspired that struck me, not so much the words themselves. The creative minds that produced these magical words have fascinated me since, almost as much as physical masks that cover them.
Like my Celtic ancestors who viewed the head as the tabernacle of the soul, I try to capture within the portrait of the poet/writer something of the creative forms and forces which stimulate his work.
The first line from a short poem by Patrick Kavanagh entitled "Truth" provided the title for this show. So to capture in sculpture those truths made visible by the written word is the impulse behind the exhibition."

John Coll

Cataloge from the American showing of this exhibition.

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