Pádraig Ó Mathúna
Munster artist Pádraig Ó'Mathúna is a self-taught silversmith. As a young student of pharmacy in Dublin Pádraig became absorbed by the wealth of metalwork on display in the National Museum of Ireland. He spent time in the Kildare Street Museum observing and studying the artefacts. “The Museum was my real university but no one knew what I was doing," Pádraig says of this time in his life. In 1952 he devoted himself completely to his art, opening a studio in his native Cashel. Ó'Mathúna undertook some formal study around this time in painting, under John Mulhern at the Galway Art School and also spent four years at the Limerick School of Art. During his time in Limerick Pádraig became acquainted with Benedict Tutty, a well-known craftsman of Church metalwork. He spent a week with Tutty in Glenstal Abbey. This time at the Abbey deepened his inquiries in metalwork and into the spiritual dimensions of his art. Ó'Mathúna draws his inspiration from Ireland and its culture, its countryside, people, folklore and language. He was the first Irish metalworker to be invited to take part in the Silver Triennial of European handmade silver in 1980; after this he was invited again in 1983, ‘86 and ‘89. In 1980 he spent some months studying in Germany as a guest of the University Fachhochschule fuer Gestaltung in Schwabisch Gmund, one of the most important art metal schools in Europe..
This note is based on an article: in Irish Arts Review:
Muireann Charleton, Pádraig Ó Mathúna: An Enduring Legacy, Irish Arts Review, Winter (November 2009 - February 2010), Vol. 26, No. 4.
This note is based on an article: in Irish Arts Review:
Muireann Charleton, Pádraig Ó Mathúna: An Enduring Legacy, Irish Arts Review, Winter (November 2009 - February 2010), Vol. 26, No. 4.
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'IRISH GOLD CRUCIFIX 1975'
- Price Realised: €850
- Sale: 14 December 2020
- 18 carat gold on bog oak
- 7½ x 3½in. (19.05 x 8.89cm)
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'IRISH SILVER KNIFE OR LETTER OPENER 2011'
- Price Realised: €750
- Sale: 14 December 2020
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'IRISH SILVER KNIVES 2016 (2)'
- Price Realised: €700
- Sale: 14 December 2020
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'THE RISEN PEOPLE 1916-2016'
- Price Realised: €680
- Sale: 14 December 2020
- silver on a stone base
- 5½ x 1in. (13.97 x 2.54cm)
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'SILVER HOLYWATER RECEPTACLE AND LOURDES STONE WITH RED WAX SEAL, 1976'
- Price Realised: €680
- Sale: 11 December 2011
- silver with [5] gemstones; rock from Lourdes Grotto with red seal
- 17 by 13cm., 6.5 by 5in.
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'AISÉIRÍ 1916-2016'
- Price Realised: €620
- Sale: 14 December 2020
- silver mounted on stone
- 5½ x 1in. (13.97 x 2.54cm)
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'ABSTRACT and SLIABH NA MBAN FIONN, COUNTY TIPPERARY, 1977'
- Price Realised: €480
- Sale: 10 October 2011
- silver on granite base; (1); oil on board; (1)
- 23 by 5cm., 9 by 2in.
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'IRISH SILVER LADLE 2002'
- Price Realised: €420
- Sale: 14 December 2020
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'IRISH SILVER LARGE SPOONS, 2016. (3)'
- Price Realised: €380
- Sale: 14 December 2020
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'IRISH SILVER LARGE SPOONS (3)'
- Price Realised: €340
- Sale: 14 December 2020
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'IRISH SILVER SPOONS AND TONGS 2012-2013 (4)'
- Price Realised: €340
- Sale: 14 December 2020
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'IRISH SILVER LARGE SPOONS 2016 (2)'
- Price Realised: €320
- Sale: 14 December 2020
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'SILVER KNIFE OR LETTER OPENER, 2016'
- Price Realised: €290
- Sale: 14 December 2020
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'SILVER KNIFE OR LETTER OPENER 2016.'
- Price Realised: €260
- Sale: 14 December 2020
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'IRISH SILVER LARGE SPOONS 2016 (2)'
- Price Realised: €240
- Sale: 14 December 2020
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'IRISH SILVER LARGE SPOONS (2)'
- Price Realised: €230
- Sale: 14 December 2020