Patrick Pye RHA (1929 – 8 February 2018) was a sculptor,

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and

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artist, resident in County Dublin. Pye was born in

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, England. He died in Dublin, Ireland.

Career

Major commissions can be seen across Ireland. In 1999 a retrospective of his work was exhibited by the Royal Hibernian Academy. He is a founding member of Aosdána. He has been described as "the most important creative artist in the sphere of religious thought in Ireland in our time". The poet Michael Longley described the way Pye was treated in the last year of his life as "crass, unforgivably crass".

References

External links

Patrick Pye's website

Biographical note
at Aosdána * McAvera B. "Patrick Pye, Life and Work" Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2013. * Fitzsimons R.B. "Arthur O'Leary and Arthur Sullivan, Musical Journeys from Kerry to the heart of Victorian England". Doghouse, Tralee, 2008 1929 births 2018 deaths Aosdána members British male painters British male sculptors British stained glass artists and manufacturers Artists from Dublin (city) 20th-century British painters 20th-century British sculptors 21st-century British painters 20th-century British male artists 21st-century British male artists {{UK-painter-20thC-stub