The Society of

CORK POTTERS

celebrating 40 years

Cover front and back

Pat Connor

Photograph by

2003

Pat Connor

In my sculpture the figure predominates whether human or animal. I tend to combine the techniques of throwing, pressing and modelling. For me the essence of the artist's odyssey is both the medium and the message it conveys. Like Munch's silent scream of unbearable emotion or the work of the Swiss artist Giacometti, whose works inhabit spaces of silent intensity.

Pat Connor was born in Dublin and studied at NCAD, moving to West Cork in 1971 to set up a ceramic studio producing both domestic and sculptural work.

He was a visiting lecturer to NCAD and Crawford College and Limerick College of Art & Design from 1976 - 1986. 

His work can be seen in several public collections including the Arts Council of Ireland, the Crawford Municipal Gallery and National Museum of Ireland. Pat has represented Ireland at the Paris Biennial in 1980 and Japan. From 1988 - 1992 Pat lived in New York where he worked on a series of figures at Mugi Studios. Returning to Ireland in 1993 he continues to work from his studio in

Schull, West Cork.

Horse & rider

Photo Rolan Paschoff

Head with hat

Photo Rolan Paschoff

Paris Biennale 1980

photograh by Nigel Rolf