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Green Street
Dingle
Co.Kerry
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086 8137917
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Paddy Campbell was born in Dublin in 1942. During the early sixties, he attended evening courses at the National College of Art in Kildare Street, but his practical needs were directed towards the Culinary Arts and he graduated in Hotel Management from Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin in 1964. Following a series of training stints in hotels in Ireland, London and Sweden, he returned to Ireland to start his own catering business in 1967.
From the mid nineties he resumed evening and other short courses at N.C.A.D. and began to realise that art, and not business, was his true vocation.
His work has been shown at various exhibitions including The Royal Hibernian Academy, Oireachtas and National College of Ireland and in February 2002 he held his first solo exhibition at the Cross Gallery in Francis Street, Dublin. He won the Miller prize for painting at N.C.A.D. in 2000.
In 2002 he discovered his gift for sculpture and pursued a full time course at the Florence Academy of Art. He established a sculpture studio at Via Luna in Florence in 2005, and produces much of his work there as well as in Dublin.
In 2006 he was commissioned to sculpt a memorial to commemorate those lost at sea in Bantry Bay, County Cork, and the official sculpture portrait of the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese. |
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