One of Irelands leading sculptors Eilis O’ Connell was born in Derry, N. Ireland in 1953. She studied at the Crawford School f Art, Cork, and Massachusetts
College of Art. Other awards ollowed, the G.P.A. Award for merging artists 1981, a fellowship t The British School at Rome 983-1984 and a P.S.I. Fellowship
for New York from the Arts ouncil of Ireland. She received he Art and Work Award for her sculptures at 99 Bishopsgate rom the Wapping Arts Trust, and in 1998 she won a oyal Society of Arts Award. She has represented Ireland t the Paris Biennale in 1982 and the Sao Paolo Biennale n 1985. She exhibited her work on the terraces of E1027 nd in the Parc du Centenaire in Roquebrune Cap Martin n 2018.