'Art in the Garden' Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition

Gormleys Fine Art in association with Hastings Hotels is proud to announce the sculpture event of the year “Art in the Garden” taking place this spring in the Culloden Estate and Spa.

This is one of the largest and most unique outdoor sculpture events to be held in Ireland. The grounds at the Culloden Estate and Spa will showcase 120 pieces of sculpture. Up to sixty leading Irish and International artists will be taking part, including two sculptors from The Design Tower - Ayelet Lalor and Elizabeth O'Kane.

Set against the twelve acres of beautiful secluded gardens and woodland, visitors will be presented with a diverse collection of sculptures, with combined life size works, large installations and smaller more intimate pieces, housed in specially constructed marquee located by the Cultra Inn.

The exhibitions runs from 7th until 22nd May 2011.

The two images above show Ayelet Lalor's piece entitled "I am the daughter of earth and water." Below is Liz O'Kane's two bronze figures, "Ricardo and Janice."

Liz O'Kane will also be showing work in the following exhibitions this summer:

• Solomon Fine Art, Celebrating 25 years of CAST Foundry, 27 May - 2 June,  number 15 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin (bronze bull).
• Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, War on Want charity exhibition and auction, 24 - 28 May (bronze female head).
• Royal Hibernian Academy of Art Annual Exhibition, Ely Place, Dublin 2, from 24 May to 30 July (two watercolour cityscapes of New York's Lower East Side).