Influence / Einfluss

John Behan "Flight of birds"

Born in Dublin in 1938, and now living and working near Galway city where he continues to vary his style of expression, John Behan is firmly established as a sculptor of
international stature.

His major public commissions include Flight of Birds, Famine Ship, Tree of Liberty, Daedalus, Millennium Child, Arrival and Equality Emerging, unveiled in Galway city in
November 2001.

Clodagh Holahan worked in J. Behans Foundry in the 1970´s during a period of student unrest in the NCAD and learned all about bronze casting there. Her sculptures are still produced by this foundry.

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Mark Gertler "Merry go round"

The son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, was born in Spitalfields, London on 9th December, 1891. Educated at a local boarding school, he decided to become an artist after seeing the work of W. P. Frith.
Mark Gertler, Gertler was a pacifist and refused to support Britain's involvement in the First World War.
After the Battle of the Somme Gertler painted Merry-Go-round (1916). Considered by many art critics as the most important British painting of the First World War, Merry-go-round, shows a group of military and civilian figures caught on the vicious circle of the roundabout. One gallery refused to show the painting because Gertler was a conscientious objector. Eventually it appeared in the Mansard Gallery in May, 1917.
His contrasting colours greatly influenced Clodagh Holahan.

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