An 8-foot-tall polished stainless steel sculpture with sky blue tip ‘skyward’ this sculpture plays on the transition of ground to horizon to sky. The hand rolled panels on the front and back allow for the piece to absorb light and surrounding colour and distort it to reflect back in beautiful circular motifs. The high polished panel reaching up to the tip transitions from polished steel up into a sky-blue tip. With the integration of colour martin was able to draw the eye from the very base of the sculpture following the movement of the piece all the way up to the tip and into the sky. These sculptures not only encourage the viewer to appreciate the sculptures themselves but also invites them to appreciate and interact with the environment in which these sculptures live.
Skyward
€10,000.00
Artist: Martin O’Keefe
Medium: Stainless Steel
Size: 250cm x 47cm x 47cm
Martin O’ Keefe
Born in Newry Co. Down, raised in West Cork and Dublin, Martin O’Keefe is a visual artist who works primarily in the mediums of stainless and mild steel, aluminium, copper and brass.
An award-winning sculptor Martin honed his craft on a part-time basis for over twenty years, committing to full-time professional practice in 2013 and presenting his work to the public from 2016. Martin designs and hand crafts all his work from his studio in Dublin.
Inspired by his cultural heritage, surroundings, the ordinary, life experiences, thoughts and observations. Martin continues to create unique pieces of sculpture which absorb, reflect 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’