Ger Mayock (8 December 1970 – 7 May 2006) was an Irish artist. Mayock was a native of Ross West near

Castlebar Castlebar () is the county town of County Mayo, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Developing around a 13th century castle of the de Barry family, de Barry family, from which the town got its name, the town now acts as a social and economic focal poi ...

, County Mayo, moving to Dublin 1988 to study Film at

Dún Laoghaire Dún Laoghaire ( , ) is a suburban coastal town in Dublin in Ireland. It is the administrative centre of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown. The town was built following the 1816 legislation that allowed the building of a major port to serve Dubli ...

College of Art and Design. He graduated in 1993 and in that year directed a film entitled ‘War’, which was subsequently screened in Ireland and at film festivals in Europe. Mayock lived and worked in New York City, Paris and

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before returning to Ireland in 1996. In 2002 he settled in

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to study at the Sculpture Centre in

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, working on wood, stone and bronze. In 2003, Mayock collaborated on a biodiversity project for

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, London, creating a sculpture which became part of the garden; it stretched eleven metres long, three metres high. A

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...

sculpture he finished in 2004 is now a permanent feature of the grounds of

Farmleigh House Farmleigh is the official Irish state guest house. It was formerly one of the Dublin residences of the Guinness family. It is situated on an elevated position above the River Liffey to the north-west of the Phoenix Park, in Castleknock. The est ...

, County Dublin. Mayock's last sculpture, entitled "Godhead", was commissioned for the prayer room at

Ireland West Airport Ireland West Airport ( ga, Aerfort Iarthar Éireann Mhuire), officially known as Ireland West Airport Knock ( ga, Aerfort Iarthar Éireann Chnoc Mhuire), is an international airport south-west of Charlestown, County Mayo, Charlestown, County ...

, County Mayo. It was completed just days prior to his death. Mayock died in a single-vehicle road traffic accident in May 2006. ''Meadowsweet – A Retrospective: Celebrating the Artist Ger Mayock'', ran in the Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, from 11 June to 3 July 2010.

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