Repeal the Eighth campaign enlists sculpture for weighty symbol
#TheWeightOfTheEighth: Light projection cast onto sculpture a chain and figure of eight
May 4, 2018
Peter Murtagh
She scales the side of the Treasury Building by Dublin’s Grand Canal Dock, a slinky, naked figure, straining upwards, her fibreglass form a moment frozen in time.
She takes a sculptural form akin to Robert Browning’s Andrea del Sarto, who asks: “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp/or what’s a heaven for?”