Owner: Fermanagh District Council

Location: Dromore Road entrance to town of Irvinestown, Co Fermanagh

Title: Lady of the Lake

Artist: Philip Flanagan

Material: Bronze

Size: (Lifesize): 

Figure: 220cm (H) x 190cm (L) x 130cm (W)

Concrete Base: 30cm(H) x 195cm(L) x 110cm (W)

Funded by:  National Lottery; Arts Council of NI; Irvinestown Trustee Enterprise Company; Fermanagh District Council.

Background: Unveiled by Dr Aideen McGinley 18 Dec 1999 Fermanagh District Council and Ms Marnie O’Neill (Arts Council).

Tradition has it that a graceful lady walked through the mists of May and made her way from island to island clad in flowing garments, surrounded by light and carrying in her had a bunch of beautiful wild flowers. To the people of old she became know as The Lady of the Lake and her appearance was a sign of good times ahead.

Artists Details: Philip Flanagan alternates between a figurative and a more abstract minimal approach to his sculptural commissions. He was born in Belfast in 1960. He attended Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts 1982-85. His work has been exhibited in the Barbican and Christies in London, the Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, U.S.A. He is responsible for a number of public commissions primarily of a commemorative nature. His commissions are throughout Northern Ireland in locations including Carrickfergus, Limavady, Enniskillen and Irvinestown. Much of his early work was in portraiture, leading to the production of a series of bronze heads, which combines representational rigour with investigation of texture, and increasingly colour. His sculpture has become more abstract, and deals with light and form, using combinations of bronze, glass and wood, and paint, as evidenced in Reflections on Water, in Fermanagh County Museum.