Liadin Cooke 
Works available
Ballroom (ornament)
2003
Brass
unique
80 × 64 × 64 cm / 2ft7 1/2 × 2ft1 1/4 × 2ft1 1/4 ins
Biography
(1958–)
Liadin Cooke studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and later at Goldsmiths College London. She has had recent solo exhibitions in Dublin, New York and at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. She was included in 'New Sculpture from Ireland' at the New Art Centre in 2005. Cooke's work is inspired by the lost and the forgotten which, combined with her memories, fuse past and future in sculptures made in discordant materials and to awkward scales. The gilded, stucco surface of Ballroom (ornament), for example, was taken from the wall decorations of the Irish Embassy ballroom at a function she remembered attending in 1995.