Patrick Pye RHA (1929 – 8 February 2018) was a sculptor, painter and stained glass artist, resident in County Dublin. [1]
Pye was born in Winchester, England. He died in Dublin, Ireland.
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. [2]
He has been described as "the most important creative artist in the sphere of religious thought in Ireland in our time". [3]
The poet Michael Longley described the way Pye was treated in the last year of his life as "crass, unforgivably crass". [4]
Longley is a member of Aosdána, and I ask him about his views on the recent controversy about the expectation of artists to be consistently seen to be 'productive, in order to retain their monetary cnuas. 'The treatment of Patrick Pye seems to me crass, unforgivably crass', he says. 'This is what happens when you have bureaucrats running things that have never tried to produce anything. I don't understand the language these people use; their bureaucratic shit. I don't take the cnuas and I don't get involved in the politics. But I think the thing about Aosdána, is that it saved some people's lives'.
Patrick Pye RHA (1929 – 8 February 2018) was a sculptor, painter and stained glass artist, resident in County Dublin. [1]
Pye was born in Winchester, England. He died in Dublin, Ireland.
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. [2]
He has been described as "the most important creative artist in the sphere of religious thought in Ireland in our time". [3]
The poet Michael Longley described the way Pye was treated in the last year of his life as "crass, unforgivably crass". [4]
Longley is a member of Aosdána, and I ask him about his views on the recent controversy about the expectation of artists to be consistently seen to be 'productive, in order to retain their monetary cnuas. 'The treatment of Patrick Pye seems to me crass, unforgivably crass', he says. 'This is what happens when you have bureaucrats running things that have never tried to produce anything. I don't understand the language these people use; their bureaucratic shit. I don't take the cnuas and I don't get involved in the politics. But I think the thing about Aosdána, is that it saved some people's lives'.