Carolyn Mulholland

Carolyn Mulholland HRHA (born 1944) is an Irish sculptor.

Carolyn Mulholland
Born1944
Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Known forsculpture

Life
Talking Heads, Abbey Street, Dublin

Carolyn Mulholland was born in 1944 in Lurgan, County Armagh. She attended the Belfast College of Art, and in 1965 was awarded the Ulster Arts Club prize for sculpture.[1] A close friend of Seamus Heaney, Mulholland sculpted a portrait bust of Heaney while a student in the 1960s.[2]

Much of Mulholland's sculpture depicts moving abstract figures. In 1973 she was awarded the Royal Ulster Academy Silver Medal Award. She was elected a member of Aosdána in 1990.[3] She has been exhibited at the Pepper Canister Gallery in Dublin with Basil Blackshaw.[1][4] In 1992 she won the Irish-American Cultural Institute's O'Malley Award. The Chester Beatty Library holds a portrait by Mulholland of Beatty from 1996, and the Office of Public Works holds her portrait of President Mary McAleese from 2003.[5]

Mulholland has been commissioned to make a number of large and public sculptures, including for the famine memorial graveyard, Clones, County Monaghan in 1998, and in 2003 a bronze panel for the Customs House, Dublin.[1] She has also been commissioned in Northern Ireland, by organisations such as the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.[5] She created the Blitz Memorial for the Northern Ireland War Memorial museum in Belfast.[6]

Selected works
  • Talking Heads, Abbey Street, Dublin (1990)
  • Iris, Newman Building, University College Dublin (UCD) (1994)[7]
  • Group, a private commission of three eight-foot-tall bronze figures (2002)
  • Man with Kite, a large bronze panel for the new Customs House, Dublin (2003)[5]
  • Narcissus, Newman Building, UCD (2009)
  • Tremor, O'Brien Science Centre, UCD (2012)[7]

References
  1. "Carolyn Mulholland HRHA Biography and Works". Ross's Auctioneers & Valuers. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  2. "A Portrait of the Artist". The Estate of Seamus Heaney. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  3. "Mulholland, Carolyn". National Irish Visual Arts Library. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  4. "Heaney's tribute to Basil's earthy works". Irish Independent. 9 July 2000. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  5. "Carolyn Mulholland RHA artist". Gormleys Fine Art. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  6. "Blitz Memorial". www.niwarmemorial.org. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  7. "Sculpture Trail" (PDF). University College Dublin. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
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