Exhibitions Donal Molloy-Drum Flux 3rd October 2023 - 28th October 2023

Having travelled quite regularly between Australia and Ireland over the past year this new group of sculptures comes from a time of change, a time of fluidity and contrast.
Life’s flow and the sounds, textures, and light of the natural world in the changing seasons, invoke in my work a sense of place and time through organic abstract forms.
Working with stainless steel, wood, and glass the shapes in my sculptures are sourced from both micro and macro elements of the natural world. These assemblages speak of the variance between strength and fragility, beauty and imperfection, stillness and movement, and the spiritual and physical world.
Continuing with my art practice between the vast flat landscape of the Wimmera region of Victoria and an undulating coastal landscape in the Southwest of Ireland - it is where these opposite worlds meet that inform my practice.
Dónal Molloy-Drum 2023

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ARTIST BIO:
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. Molloy-Drum is a regular exhibitor, with 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 been a finalist in various prizes, including the Deakin Small Sculpture Prize (2023, 2021), the Swan Hill Regional Gallery Drawing and Print Prize (2020), the Yering Station Sculpture Prize (2019, 2018, 2015, 2014) the Tesselaar Sculpture Prize (2018) and was twice winner of the Yering Station Sculpture Prize People's Choice Award (2018, 2014). He has received travel grants from Creative Victoria (2022, 2020) and Regional Arts Victoria (2016, 2010) and has undertaken commissions for the City of Whitehorse, Horsham City Council and Horsham Regional Art Gallery.

DONAL MOLLOYDRUM PROFILE
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Embrace 2023
stainless steel
57cm x 30cm x 20cm

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Jimmy's Wall 2023
stainless steel, wood, blown glass, brass
50cm x 27cm x 13cm

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Cloudburst 2023
stainless steel, brass, marine plywood veneer
51cm x 32cm x 20cm

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Linger 2023
stainless steel, plaster, marine plywood veneer
36cm x 38cm x 12cm

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Halcyon 2023
stainless steel, brass, marine plywood veneer, blown glass
38cm x 39cm x 15cm

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Tidal Song 2023
stainless steel, wood
35cm x 28cm x 24cm

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The Leaning 2023
stainless steel, wood veneer
38cm x 40cm x 10cm
Finalist in the 2023 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award.

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Fan Saor 2023
stainless steel, wood, brass
21cm x 46cm x 12cm

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A Soft Breeze 2023
stainless steel, marine plywood veneer
36cm x 24cm x 13cm

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Midlands 2023
stainless steel, marine plywood veneer
37cm x 37cm x 14cm

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Tide fills, rests, runs 2023
stainless steel, marine plywood veneer
43cm x 26cm x 14cm

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Heft 2023
stainless steel, wood
32cm x 46cm x 13cm

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Oscailt 2023
stainless steel, blown glass, marine plywood veneer
46cm x 38cm x 16cm

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Fallen Hush 2023
stainless steel, marine plywood veneer
32cm x 36cm x 16cm