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North Clare artist, Tina O’Connell, has been turning heads in the art world this year, winning a number of awards and having a piece of sculpture accepted into the permanent collection at the Limerick City Gallery. Tina, who took up art just 12 years ago, has had a meteoric rise in recent years, first completing FETAC level 5 and 6 courses in Ennistymon before finishing her degree this year at the Limerick School of Art and Design. Indeed, on the back of some of the sculptures she has completed over the past seven months, Tina currently has an exhibition running in Limerick City Gallery. The Lisdoonvarna single mother has worked hard for her success, putting in long hours this winter to perfect her craft. “I focussed on getting my thesis done before Christmas. I really knuckled down and said that, come January, I would get stuck into studio work,” she said “I ended up carving a lot from home in …
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