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Niamh Barry, What if Everything is Not Linear?, Light Sculpture, Ireland, 2022

About the Item

Niamh Barry often says that her sculptures are drawings in bronze and light. Inspired by natural beauty, her work transcends utility. She strives, above all else, to achieve striking visual balance, movement, and proportion. Her process is visceral, and allows her instinct to speak. Her pieces are thus experienced similarly—with emotion rather than contemplation alone. This extraordinary light sculpture furthers an aesthetic language inspired by the famed Broighter Hoard, and initiated with her large-scale commission for the National Bank of Ireland—an elaboration on geometry, palette, and orientation. With this symphony of polished 'vessels' floating in an near-weightless composition, Barry has abandoned her traditionally linear arrangements, and evinced a form of motion heretofore untried, and wonderful to behold in this medium, and at this scale. Lead time subject to change.
  • Creator:
    Niamh Barry (Designer)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 48.6 in (123.45 cm)Width: 60 in (152.4 cm)Depth: 54 in (137.16 cm)
  • Power Source:
    Hardwired
  • Lampshade:
    Not Included
  • Materials and Techniques:
    Bronze,Patinated
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    2022
  • Production Type:
    New & Custom(One of a Kind)
  • Estimated Production Time:
    Available Now
  • Condition:
  • Seller Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: BARRN 651stDibs: LU781338519292
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