Hilary Heron
Hilary Heron was born in Dublin and spent her childhood in New Ross, County Wexford, and Coleraine, County Derry. She was educated privately at home and at Ivory's one-teacher school in New Ross. She attended the National College of Art, Dublin, where she won three Taylor Prizes from the Royal Dublin Society (RDS). For sculpture in wood, limestone and marble she was awarded the first Mainie Jellett Memorial Travelling Scholarship in 1947. In the same year, she went to Italy and France to study Romanesque carving. She was instrumental in founding the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, and first exhibited there in 1943. www.whytes.ie With Louis Le Brocquy, she represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 1956. In 1950 and 1953 she held two solo exhibtions in Dublin at the Waddington Gallery. In the 1950s she began to work in metal. In 1958 she was commissioned by the Irish government to complete work for an Irish exhibit at New York, and in 1960 her first exhibition in England was shown at the Waddington Galleries in London, where she displayed more than thirty works. One English critic saw her work as assimilating exotic styles with a great feel for nature, remarking that ‘she brings something fresh, diverting, and also very genuine to our inbred world of sculpture’ (Neville Wallis, quoted in Snoddy, p. 253).
She travelled in Asia, America and Europe, and her works are in many private and public collections, both in Ireland and overseas, including The Irish Museum of Modern Art. www.whytes.ie
She travelled in Asia, America and Europe, and her works are in many private and public collections, both in Ireland and overseas, including The Irish Museum of Modern Art. www.whytes.ie
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'A LEVEL HEADED MAN, c.1965'
- Price Realised: €8,000
- Sale: 28 November 2016
- wood
- 56 x 29 x 16in. (142.24 x 73.66 x 40.64cm)
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'CAESAR, 1949'
- Price Realised: €3,400
- Sale: 29 May 2017
- beechwood; (unique)
- 24 x 10¼ x 4½in. (60.96 x 26.04 x 11.43cm)
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'COLLECTION OF PRINTS, CATALOGUES AND EPHEMERA'
- Price Realised: €800
- Sale: 17 July 2017
- pen on paper (10); lithographs on paper (30);
- 9 x 15in. (22.86 x 38.10cm)