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Art Calendar 2012Scenarios & Sculptures by Paddy Campbell


Introduction

“I envisage a magical fusion of sculpture and photography, the ancient and the modern, to capture those contemporary scenes from our everyday lives…”

Born in Dublin in 1942, Paddy Campbell was a successful entrepreneur in Ireland until, in his !"ies, he returned to the art he had always loved. He studied and practiced painting and sculpture in Florence, inspired by some of the world#s most beautiful buildings and works of art.

It is clear from a !rst glance at his almost exclusively !gurative work that Paddy loves people. Working principally from life, he is fascinated by the men and women he sculpts, his relationship with them providing the emotional charge from which his work "ows.His approach is instinctive, immediate, as is his creative reactionto the verbal and non-verbal language spoken by his models.

SculpturesAt 1/3rd life size, the !gures are large enough to be embellished with the human details and props that will tell the story, while allowing us to take in each scene entirely from di#erent angles – through a window, a door, or re"ected in a mirror.$e scenarios represent scenes to which we can all relate: a street,a café, a train, a bathroom, a house. While they are not dramatic in the commonly accepted sense, they are full of drama of everyday life.

Scenarios

“Whether it makes us happy, angry, sad, romantic, or re$ective, art moves us.If it leaves us feeling indi%erent, it can#t be art, no ma&er how technically perfect it may be. Image, without the imagination of the observer, is an empty shell”


Il cano%iere Bronze, 45x220x230cm


“One of my oldest memories was listening to the radio (or “the wireless” as it was then called) and thinking how it would be fun to open it up at the back, take out all the tiny people who were inside dancing, !ghting, playing music or football, and get them to perform for me on the table. For most of the rest of my life I binned this !gment of my childish imaginings, but it refused to go away…”

La festa

DECEMBER 2011

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday $ursday Friday Saturday

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DaySt. Stephen#sDay

New Year#sEve

ChristmasEve

Scenes 'om ‘La Vita# exhibition, Casa Benvenuto Cellini, Vicchio, October 2010


January sales

Scenes 'om ‘Christmas Street# exhibition, Bewley#s Café (eatre, November 2011

“It was appropriate that my association with, and love for BEWLEY#S CAFÉ should !nd its way into my art. I have always said that Bewley#s café is really the people who go there and give it a unique life and character. My Bewley#s people are a cross section of the ordinary, busy, $ustered, young, old, sad, happy, sophisticated, lonely, and contented people who dip into its legendary co%ee every day.”

New Year#sDay

JANUARY 2012


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Amazonia

“Each of my sculptures tells a story – by capturing a moment within that story and relating the depth and breadth of all that happens in that instant. What interests me when I compose a sculpture is the blending of the experiences of the subject, of the artist, and of the observer, and the limitless possibilities for interpretation.”

Bronze, 160x46x66cm

FEBRUARY 2012


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St. Valentine#sDay


Night Train

“During the exhibition, some !gures will be replaced (I keep a “subs bench” in reserve). So a total of about 100 characters will appear. For example, passengers will board and/or disembark 'om the train, as they would in real life.”

Scenes 'om ‘Moments in time# exhibition, San Giovanni Valdarno, February 2011

MARCH 2012


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St. Patrick#sDay

BankHoliday


Il Treno fantasma

Paddy talks of that spark of recognition – of a pose or an expression- that will touch something deep inside the observer and prompt him to say “Yes, I understand. I know that feeling, that moment. I#ve been there too. It#s your world but it#s my world too”.

Bronze, 55x30x60cm

APRIL 2012


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EasterMonday

EasterDay


MAY 2012


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Bathroom

“In this bathroom scene my focus is on the nude !gure, a modern woman in the traditional role of bather, inspired by past masters 'om Bonnard to Balthus.”


BankHoliday

May Day


Sleepless

“Small moments can be spoken through art, telling us things we knew but didn#t know we knew. If I can touch the observer in this way, enabling him or her to remember these everyday truths, I consider myself to have done my job.”

Bronze, 40x20x18cm

BankHoliday

JUNE 2012


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Jilliver&s travels

“Reading Gulliver#s Travels, I always wanted to be that man, surrounded by Lilliputians, ba&ling their enemies in a shallow sea, or plucking damsels 'om !ery roo"ops.At school I read comics, not Latin, and my exasperated “art” teacher railed at me for drawing faces on eggs, or making monsters 'om his precious plasticine!”

Scenes 'om ‘Christmas Street# exhibition, Bewley#s Café (eatre, November 2011

JULY 2012


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Bathtime Bronze, 34x23x23cm

Meaning is important for Paddy. True to hisIrish roots, he is a teller of stories, but he alsoloves to inspire us to create our own narrativesaround his piece.

BankHoliday

AUGUST 2012


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Catwalk

“I had never been to a fashion show,but the passion for the style hadto rub o% on me because I spentso much time in Italy”.


SEPTEMBER 2012


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“Ireland is renowned for its literary culture – one based on words rather than the visual arts, so as a true Irishman, storytelling comes naturally to me. When I moved into my Florence studio in 2005, I !nally had a place 'om where I could tell my stories, but speaking through the medium of sculpture, a real challenge for an Irish storyteller!”.

La principessa e la rana Bronze, 105x74x120cm

OCTOBER 2012


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Holiday


An teac mòr

“During the months I spent in my Leixlip studio preparing for an exhibition in 2010, I read Eamon Delaney#s book “Breaking the Mould” about his father, the renowned Irish sculptor Eddie Delaney. It gave me great inspiration, and relief, to read Eddie#s advice to “think of sculptures as toys for adults, and you will be a happy man all your life”.

Scenes 'om ‘Li&le Christmas# exhibition, Bewley#s Café (eatre, November 2011

NOVEMBER 2012


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Christmas Eve

Viewers become voyeurs, glimpsing knee-high characters through windows, doors, or mirrors, and creating their own stories. Like a bu&er$y, this Small World will live for a brief moment, only to be remembered or forgo&en.

Scenes 'om ‘La Vita# exhibition, Casa Benvenuto Cellini, Vicchio, October 2010

DECEMBER 2012


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ChristmasDay

St. Stephen#sDay

New Year#sEve

ChristmasEve


Behind $e Scenes

“I wanted to put the !gures into context, as if they were in a painting…”

“It has taken me a lifetime to !gure out how my head works, !rst as an entrepreneur and then as an artist. It&s like a big hopper, into which dreams, ideas, problems, challenges, and sometimes secret embarrassing notions are poured, in no particular order, and churned.

$is process of creating something is open to including more or less everything and anything in the stew, and is generally anathema to those of an engineering disposition who !nd it impossible to begin without a recipe. I will end with a recipe, when the ideas have been spilled over, jumbled up, ground down, mixed with o'en bizarre imaginings, and !nally squeezed out through a nozzle. O'en I reject the end product, but sometimes other people like what I&ve done. Occasionally I may think my creation is sublime, but I might be the only one… Either way, the recipe gets forgo%en while the hopper is being reloaded and the painful churning resumes”

Creating the scenarios


2002Group ShowOireachtas Exhibition,Dun Laoghaire, IrelandSolo Exhibition, LeCross Gallery,Dublin, Ireland

2003Annual Exhibition, Royal HibernianAcademy, Dublin, Ireland

Other Works by Paddy Campbell

Spirit Of Love 2006 (bronze)(Memorial to those who lost their lives at sea in Bantry Bay) 7 metres

President Mary McAleese 2008 (bronze) 74x31x30cm

Midsummer Night&s Dream 2009(marble) 86,4x71x23

Girl with red hair 2006(bronze) 42x19x19cm

Exhibitions

CreditsIt strikes me that it has taken me 10 years to bring this “Christmas Street” exhibition together. My sincere thanks to all those big and li%le people who have made this possible. Go raibh míle maith agaibh go léir!

Photography Alessandro Moggi – FlorenceEugene Langan – Dublin

Print & GraphicsRomana RocchinoEdoardo Casini IGV Industria Gra!ca Valdarnese, San Giovanni Valdarno (Ar), Italy

Group Show, Blue Leaf Gallery,Dublin, Ireland

2004Annual Exhibition, Royal HibernianAcademy, Dublin

2005Solo Exhibition, NationalCollegeof IrelandSolo Exhibition, RoyalHibernianAcademy, Dublin, IrelandSummer Show, Petley&s Fine ArtGallery, London,UKGroup Show, BeRer LateLanNever,Cork (European City of Culture),Ireland

2006Solo Exhibition,CrossGallery,Dublin, IrelandFlorence Academy Alumni Exhibition, PalazzoCorsini, Florence

Group Show, Jorgensen Fine Art,Dublin, IrelandGroup Show, Maryann&sGallery,Castletownsend, IrelandGroup Show, SolomonGallery,Dublin, IrelandSolo Exhibition, Rhythms of Life,Gormleys Fine Art,Omagh, Ireland

2007Joint Exhibition,Le Art of Seduction,Gormleys Fine Art,Dublin, Ireland

2008Group Show,Le SecretGarden,SolomonGallery, Dublin, IrelandGroup Show, MidsummerGardenSculpture Exhibition,Gormleys FineArt, Swords, Co.Dublin, IrelandGroup Show, Franco Senesi Fine ArtGalleries, Positano andCapri, ItalyInvited Artist Annual Exhibition,RoyalUlster Academy, Belfast, Ireland

2009Group Show, Franco Senesi Fine ArtGalleries, Positano and Capri, ItalyInvited Artist Annual Exhibition,RoyalHibernian Academy, Dublin,IrelandSolo Exhibition, Un altroMondo –Another World, Fiesole, Italy

Solo Exhibition, Il CancelloGallery,via dei Fossi, Florence, Italy

2010Joint Exhibition,Gormleys Fine Art,BelfastGroup Show, Jorgensen Fine Art,Dublin, IrelandSummer Show, Petley&s Fine Art,

Cork Street, London, UKGroup Show, Florence AcademyAlumni Exhibition, PalazzoCorsini,Florence, ItalyGroup Show, Franco Sinesi Fine Art,Positano andCapri, ItalySolo Exhibition (September 2010),Casa BeuvenutoCellini, Vicchio nelMugello, Florence, ItalyChristmas Show (December 2010),Petley&s Fine Art, Cork Street,London,UK“La Vita” Personale / Solo ExhibitionCasa Benvevuto Cellini, Vicchio nelMugello, Florence, Italy“Exhibition of Contemporary Irish Art”Pillar Room, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin“Paddy About Town”Personale / Solo Exhibitiona cura di Art&ù, Villa PalliniSO bar, De%agli per Donzelle e Sognatori, La Bo%ega dei CristalliFlorence

“Li%le Christmas”, Solo Exhibition, Bewley&s Cafè $eatreDublin, Ireland

2011“Moments in Time” Solo Exhibition,Palazzo d&Arnolfo, San Giovanni Valdarno, ArezzoGormley&s Fine Art Solo Exhibition, Belfast

Hotel Il Salviatinocultural exhibition by Paddy Campbell in beautiful gardens“Cast 25” Celebrating 25 years of Ireland&s leading bronze art foundrySolomon Gallery, Kildare, Ireland“Se%imana dell&Arte in Sardegna”Group Exhibition, Galleria Spagnoli, Baia di Conte, Alghero, ItalyPetley&s Fine Art, Group ExhibitionLondon“Se%imana dell&arte in Grecia”Group Exhibition, Galleria Spagnoli, Hydra, $ermisia, Grecia“Greenacres Opera Festival Exhibition”Group Exhibition, Greenacres Fine Art, Wexford, Ireland“Week-end dell&Arte in Puglia”Group Exhibition, Galleria Spagnoli, Bari, Italy, November 2011Petley&s Fine Art, Christmas ExhibitionLondonChristmas Street, Bewley&s Café $eatre, Dublin, December 2011


Bewley&s Café, Gra'on Street

“Christmas Street”Considering Paddy Campbell#s passion for the arts and Bewley#s, it is appropriate that this exhibition should have been held in the Café (eatre.Bewley&s Gra'on Street café was opened by Ernest Bewley in November 1927. $e building had once housed Whyte&s Academy, a school whose pupils included $e Duke of Wellington and Robert Emmet. Ernest Bewley commissioned the renowned artist Harry Clarke to create the windows for the new café at the cost of 60,000 pounds. $e grandeur and ambition of his achievement resulted in Bewley&s Gra'on Street quickly becoming an essential part of the literary, cultural, artistic, architectural, and social life in Dublin. $e café became a focal point for some of Ireland&s most famous literary and artistic !gures, including James Joyce, Patrick Kavanagh, Samuel Becke%, and Sean O&Casey.

Paddy Campbell rescued the Bewley&s business from the brink of extinction in 1986, ensuring that Gra'on Street would continue its long legacy as a thriving café and cultural landmark.In 1999 his daughter Kelly, destined to become a successful actress, had the ideaof establishing a permanent performance space in the building,and Bewley&s Café $eatre was born.

Some of Ireland&s foremost and most proli!c performers have graced the boards over the years. Everyone from well known actors like Geraldine Plunke%, Mary McEvoy, Alan Stanford, to performers like Don Baker and Honor He#ernan have appeared.

Bewley&s continues to hold a special place in the hearts of Dubliners and visitors to the city alike.

Above: “Bewley&s Café” - Scenarios by Paddy Campbell

www.paddycampbell.ie We are very taken by Paddy Campbell#s art and the wonderful sculptures and scenarios he has created for this calendar. By purchasing the calendar we hope that you will enjoy browsing through it in the knowledge that you are helping us to support all our heart children.

Heart Children Ireland was founded in 1990. We receive no Government funding and rely on the generosity of our members, their families and 'iends for support. We are very grateful to Paddy Campbell and Bewley#s for their support.

All the funds raised 'om this calendar will help us to continue the work we do, supporting our heart children and their families.

We wish you health and happiness for 2012.

SupportingHeart Children Ireland is delighted to have been chosen

as the Charity Partner for this amazing calendar.

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