Eileen MacDonagh
- January 6, 2024
- Sculptor
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Eileen MacDonagh Biography
| Name | Eileen MacDonagh |
| Birthday | Jul 20 |
| Birth Year | 1956 |
| Place Of Birth | Geevagh |
| Birth Country | Ireland |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
Eileen MacDonagh is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on July 20, 1956 in Geevagh, Ireland. Eileen MacDonagh was born in Geevagh, County Sligo in 1956 and has worked as a sculptor since the 1980s. For her contribution to sculpture and the Arts in Ireland, MacDonagh was elected in 2004 to Aosdána, the Irish organisation that recognises artists that have contributed a unique body of work.
In February 2012 MacDonagh will be showcasing new original works alongside past works in a Retrospective Exhibition of her work at VISUAL, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland. The show is called Lithosphere, opening 5 Feb 2012 at 3pm. This exhibition will be open on public display for 3 months
“Eileen MacDonagh’s sculptures are candid, direct and ultimately rational. They spring from a harmonious and human-centered vision which seeks to charge natural materials with an aesthetic significance governed always by principles of clarity and formal coherence. Their major analogues derive from architecture and from craft… though never minimalist, the sculptures can sometimes be minimal, working to achieve a sort of meditative stillness where every details counts.” —Medh Ruane.
Many of MacDonagh’s sculptures examines a fascination with geometry. She has long been inspired by the purity and ubiquity of geometric principles and the way in which geometric rules govern the universe. Her 2008 Fire from Stone show at the Centre Culturel Irlandais featured four major installations, the largest of which was composed of fifteen pieces of differing size. The individual pieces were based on icosahedral forms, a complex geometric shape, and are carved from over ten different types of Indian granite. They ranged in size from 4-foot in diameter to just 4 inches, and were all created when MacDonagh was on a residency in India.
Eileen MacDonagh Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Sculptor |
| House | Living in own house. |
Eileen MacDonagh is one of the richest Sculptor from Ireland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Eileen MacDonagh 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
MacDonagh works mainly in stone to produce large-scale sculptures. Due to the scale of her work, she has tended to concentrate on public art commissions although she has also exhibited in the context of the gallery exhibitions. She received a Diploma in Sculpture at the School of Art, Regional Technical College, Sligo, Ireland (1974–79) and an Art Teachers Certificate from the Limerick School of Art & Design (1979–80). MacDonagh’s first solo exhibition in 1992,Truss, showed large-scale works made from both wood and stone. MacDonagh has continued through her career as a sculptor taking on large-scale projects, and has built up a large body of public art since across Ireland and in other countries.
Catherine Marshall, head of collections at Irish Museum of Modern Art, wrote in 2005 that:
MacDonagh is deeply influenced by books such as Robert Lawlor’s Sacred Geometry and Fritjof Kapra’s The Tao of Physics in which formal patterns are linked to ideas, religions and to the physical make-up of the universe. She has investigated the colour, texture and density of granite and limestone, as well as the challenge of working on a large scale. In recent years she has undertaken large-scale public works in stainless steel – The Medusa Tree (2009) for VISUAL, The Contemporary Art Centre, Carlow and – The Tallaght Cross (2008).
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Eileen Ranked on the list of most popular Sculptor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ireland. Eileen MacDonagh celebrates birthday on July 20 of every year.