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the listening shell Sculpture

John Coll

Ireland

Sculpture, Bronze

Size: 15 W x 17 H x 15 D cm

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If one puts a shell to ones ear you hear the sea! but its not the saltsea but the sea of blood running through your head.This fact inspired this piece which is a the structure of a nautilus shell bisected in half where the internal septae develop into human ear. The structure also echo,s the shape ...

Year Created:

2014

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Sculpture, Bronze

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

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15 W x 17 H x 15 D cm

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Not Framed

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Born in 1956, John Coll has had an interest in art and the natural world since he was a boy. He studied marine biology at NUI Galway and worked as a biologist on a fish farm. At the age of 27 he became a professional sculptor. Much of his work is inspired by the marine environment and the human interaction with it. An accomplished portraitist, he has sculpted many busts of Irish writers and more recently the President of Ireland , Michael D Higgins . In 2018 he completed a 2 meter sculpture of Dr Michael Smurfit for the Smurfit Business School and most recently a sculpture of the singer Luke Kelly that sits on South King Street in Dublin . His working medium is cast and welded bronze and stainless steel.

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