42 Sculpture

MARTIN O’KEEFE SCULPTURE Born in Newry Co. Down and raised in West Cork and Dublin, Martin O’Keefe is a visual artsist who works primarily in the mediums of stainless and mild steel, aluminium, copper and brass. A multi award-winning sculptor Martin's work can be found in many corporate and private collections both nationally and internationally. Martin designs and hand crafts all his work from his studio in Kilternan, South Dublin, Ireland. Inspired by his cultural heritage, surroundings, the ordinary, life experiences, thoughts and observations, Martin continues to create unique pieces of sculpture which absorb, refelct and distort light and landscape; inviting the viewer to look past the obvious into the imperceptible and inconspicuous. ‘Steel is an amazing medium, its hard, rough and cold but when manipulated becomes soft, smooth, warm and inviting. Work it and it becomes compliant, stretches and bends, distorts and discolours and the most exciting part, if allowed steel will bring you down a path you hadn’t first envisaged. This is why for me the process is as important as the final outcome.’