PROJECT: City of Whitehorse Public Art Commission
ARTIST: Donal Molloy-Drum
ARTWORK TITLE: Resting Light
LOCATION: Whitehorse Artspace at Box Hill Town Hall
DATE: 2022
Dónal Molloy-Drum was commissioned by the City of Whitehorse to create a large sculpture for the entrance to the Whitehorse Artspace. Incorporating stainless steel and glass, this new work continues Molloy-Drum's ongoing investigation of the aesthetic of dry stone walls.
ARTIST BIO:
Sculptor Dónal Molloy-Drum was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. After migrating to Australia in 1997, he now lives and works in the Wimmera region of Western Victoria. Donal studied Fine Art at the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork in the late 1980s, majoring in sculpture. Favouring building materials such as wood, plaster, concrete and stainless steel to construct his polished, abstract sculptures, Donal continues to push these materials as he engages with the organic forms found within the Australian landscape. He has work in public and private collections worldwide, including Microsoft Dublin, South Dublin County Council, the Australian Air Force, Canberra and Horsham Rural City Council. He has also been a finalist in various prizes, including the Deakin Small Sculpture Prize (2021), the Swan Hill Regional Gallery Drawing and Print Prize (2020), the Yering Station Sculpture Prize (2019) and the Tesselaar Sculpture Prize (2018).
