Patrick Pye

Patrick Pye RHA (1929 – 8 February 2018) was a sculptor, painter and stained glass artist, resident in County Dublin.^[1]

Pye was born in Winchester, England. He died in Dublin, Ireland.

Career

Major commissions can be seen across Ireland. In 1999 a retrospective of his work was exhibited by the Royal Hibernian Academy. He is a founding member of Aosdána.^[2]

He has been described as "the most important creative artist in the sphere of religious thought in Ireland in our time".^[3]

The poet Michael Longley described the way Pye was treated in the last year of his life as "crass, unforgivably crass".^[4]

Dulwich, St Thomas More Church, Apparition of St Columba by Patrick Pye