Eoin Turner: Raising a glass to success

Cork Sculptor and former fisherman Eoin Turner tells Ellie O’Byrne why glass is his preferred, but by no means only, medium.

Eoin Turner is standing in front of a breathtaking kiln-formed glass sculpture, a towering monolith of gleaming red and gold glass which seems almost to teeter on its base: it’s a top-heavy design which, Turner says, is purposefully designed to create suspense in the viewer.