Sculptor, born in Dublin, sister of the artist Louis le Brocquy. She attended the National College of Art, Dublin, the Royal Hibernian Academy School and École des Beaux-Arts, Geneva. While she was at National College le Brocquy knew that she had made a mistake and did not want to be a painter or teacher, then discovered the sculpture department, run by Peter Grant and Peter Brennan. Her first sculpture, Head of a Cat, was accepted by RHA. A Taylor Scholarship took her to Geneva. She had a joint exhibition with her brother in 1942 in Dublin and appeared in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1943, but then marriage preoccupied her until she relaunched her career in the 1960s. In the early 1970s the Dawson Gallery in Dublin took up her work, giving her shows with William Scott and Patrick Heron, the Taylor Galleries in Dublin giving her a small retrospective in 1986, the RHA a major one in 1999.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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