Monday 20 May at 1.00pm
Free, no booking required
As part of the Bealtaine Festival, West Cork Arts Centre will screen The Last Statue Maker in Cork. This short film tells of one man’s life and work. Maurice O’Donnell’s lifelong fascination with statues, grew from modelling figures from turf as a small child, to an apprenticeship at Bernardi’s Statue Shop in Cork, to time spent in Italy studying with the great masters. His work has been exhibited all over the world and he continued to make statues right up to his eighties. The documentary also tells the stories of some of the statues themselves, including the famous ‘moving’ statue of Ballinspittle, which was one of Maurice’s creations. [Read more...]
