Carolyn Mulholland

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Carolyn Mulholland
HRHA, HRUA
Born1944
Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Alma materBelfast College of Art
Known forsculpture
Elected Aosdana

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

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Life

Talking Heads, Abbey Street, Dublin Talking Heads 1.jpg
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]

Mulholland donated a picture to an exhibition to raise funds for victims of civil disturbances in Belfast in the autumn of 1969. The exhibition at Queen's University was organised by Sheelagh Flanagan and showed works by William Scott, Graham Gingles, F E McWilliam, Deborah Brown, Cherith McKinstry, and Mercy Hunter, as well as more than twenty others. [3] The wife of the Northern Irish Secretary of State Colleen Rees was the curator of a personal selection of works from Ulster Artists hosted at the Leeds Playhouse Gallery in 1976. Mulholland's work was among 49 artworks from various artists where she was displayed alongside TP Flanagan, Joe McWilliams, Mercy Hunter, Tom Carr and many others. [4]

Much of Mulholland's sculpture depicts moving abstract figures. In 1973 she was awarded the Royal Ulster Academy Silver Medal Award. [5] In 1974 Mulholland was elected Associate of the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts alongside Renée Bickerstaff and Francis Neill. [6] She was elected a member of Aosdána in 1990. [5] She has been exhibited at the Pepper Canister Gallery in Dublin with Basil Blackshaw. [1] [7] 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. [8]

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. [8] She created the Blitz Memorial for the Northern Ireland War Memorial museum in Belfast. [9]

Legacy

Carolyn Mulholland's work can be found in many private collections, and public institutions including the Ulster Museum, Armagh County Museum, Royal Ulster Academy of Arts Diploma Collection, and Queen's University, Belfast. [10]

Selected works

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "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. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  3. ↑ Rosenfield, Ray (30 October 1969). "30 artists in show to aid riot victims". Irish Times. p. 10. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  4. ↑ "Mrs Rees view of Ulster". Belfast Telegraph. 14 September 1976. p. 3. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  5. 1 2 "Mulholland, Carolyn". National Irish Visual Arts Library. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  6. ↑ "Academy exhibition opens with appeal for daylight". Irish Times. 7 June 1974. p. 10. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "Heaney's tribute to Basil's earthy works". Irish Independent. 9 July 2000. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  8. 1 2 3 "Carolyn Mulholland RHA artist". Gormleys Fine Art. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  9. ↑ "Blitz Memorial". www.niwarmemorial.org. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  10. ↑ "Mulholland, Carolyn, b.1944 | Art UK". artuk.org. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  11. 1 2 "Sculpture Trail" (PDF). University College Dublin. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
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