Mike Duhan: 'Bronze is really expensive. Every piece costs thousands to cast'

The work of the Limerick-born artist is part of a sales exhibition of sculptures at the Montenotte Hotel in Cork  
Mike Duhan: 'Bronze is really expensive. Every piece costs thousands to cast'

 Mike Duhan at work in his foundry. 

Sculptor Mike Duhan, who specialises in bronze figures, says has no problem being described as a craftsman. The Limerick-born artist, a brother of singer, Johnny Duhan, is happy to remain outside the visual arts scene in this country.

"I'm not really a part of it and I don't want to be. I worked in full-time employment [as a technical art teacher at the National College of Art and Design] until retiring after thirty-four years when my wife got sick," says Duhan, whose work appears as part of an exhibition in the gardens of the Montennote Hotel in Cork. 

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