€40
Star Lot: A very large original batik fabric print by the renowned Irish artist Bernadette Madden. Features an abstract rendition of a neolithic kerbstone which boasts geometric and curvilinear motifs such as spirals and dotwork. Rendered in natural peachy tones of terracotta, mauves and pale sandy pinks. Signed to base of kerbstone and to verso. Madden is a well loved contemporary Irish artist who's work sells very well at auction, fetching prices into the mid hundreds.
MM: 120 x 74 cm
Born in Dublin, Bernadette Madden was a student at the National College of Art and Design and was awarded the William J Macauley Fellowship in Painting by the Arts Council in 1976. She is well known for her work with Batik and also makes screenprints on paper. She has exhibited extensively across Ireland, including at the RHA, and further afield in Norway and the USA, and has made fabrics for use in film and theatre productions. Her work can be seen in the Riverside Church, Co Dublin and the collections of the OPW and the Ulster Museum, among others.
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