Linda Brunker
Linda Brunker has been a full-time sculptor since graduating from NCAD in 1988. She has developed her own innovative style of bronze casting. She has had many solo shows in Dublin, New York and Los Angeles and has completed private and public commissions worldwide. www.whytes.ie Public commissions include Voyager, a large female figure made from a filigree of bronze elements from the sea which overlooks the Pacific Ocean at the Montage Hotel in Laguna Beach, California, The Wishing Hand at the Department of Education, Marlborough Square, Dublin, and Two For Joy, Garda Sνochαna, Bray, Co. Wicklow.
From her studios in Southern California and Dublin she makes sculptures on all scales from monumental corporate and public sculptures to small tabletop pieces in bronze or stone. Her sculptures are predominantly based on the human form. She typically incorporates elements taken from nature such as leaves, feathers or shells to create images composed into flowing shapes which echo the rhythms of wind, fire and water.
"In Linda Brunkers elegant sculptures, masses of natural forms, from leaves to starfish, bear the imprint of human, usually female, heads and bodies. They are emblematic of the structural patterns that connect not just living things but all forms on all scales, from microscopic to cosmic. The work is technically impeccable and often ingenious......" Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 1996. www.whytes.ie
From her studios in Southern California and Dublin she makes sculptures on all scales from monumental corporate and public sculptures to small tabletop pieces in bronze or stone. Her sculptures are predominantly based on the human form. She typically incorporates elements taken from nature such as leaves, feathers or shells to create images composed into flowing shapes which echo the rhythms of wind, fire and water.
"In Linda Brunkers elegant sculptures, masses of natural forms, from leaves to starfish, bear the imprint of human, usually female, heads and bodies. They are emblematic of the structural patterns that connect not just living things but all forms on all scales, from microscopic to cosmic. The work is technically impeccable and often ingenious......" Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 1996. www.whytes.ie
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'FLOW, 1995.'
- Price Realised: 16,000
- Sale: 29 May 2017
- bronze; (no. 2 from an edition of 5)
- 51½ x 20½in. (130.81 x 52.07cm)
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'FOLIOSE 2'
- Price Realised: 12,500
- Sale: 02 March 2009
- bronze with a green patina; unique
- 34 by 103 by 48cm., 13.4 by 40.6 by 18.9in.
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'SURFACE, 1995'
- Price Realised: 9,500
- Sale: 04 March 2024
- bronze on a black marble base; (unique)
- 72 x 26Ό x 26Όin. (182.88 x 66.68 x 66.68cm)
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'CLIABHAN (CRADLE), 2004'
- Price Realised: 6,000
- Sale: 19 February 2007
- bronze (no. 2 from an edition of 6)
- 44 cm., 17.5 in. high
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'HEALING TREE'
- Price Realised: 6,000
- Sale: 21 February 2006
- bronze (6 from an edition of 8)
- 52 by 0cm., 20.5 by in.
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'WINTER, 1996'
- Price Realised: 5,000
- Sale: 04 March 2024
- bronze on metal base; (unique)
- 33 x 21 x 13½in. (83.82 x 53.34 x 34.29cm)
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'FACE OF FEATHERS'
- Price Realised: 2,200
- Sale: 04 March 2024
- bronze
- 12 x 12 x 8in. (30.48 x 30.48 x 20.32cm)
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'FLOW STUDY, 1996'
- Price Realised: 1,900
- Sale: 18 May 2009
- bronze with green patina on black granite base (no. 6 from an edition of 9)
- 30 by 15cm., 12 by 6in.