Antiques: A sculpture for every garden

The artwork by John Burke at Sheppard's annual Glantelwe Gardens sale

An untitled sculpture by John Burke at Sheppard's Glantelwe Gardens sale.

A LARGE untitled iron sculpture by John Burke, exhibited outside the Crawford Gallery for many years, comes up at Sheppard’s annual Glantelwe Gardens sale in Durrow on June 30.

One of the most significant figures in the history of sculpture in Ireland, the pioneering John Burke, who died in 2006, introduced the use of steel and welding process into an Irish world of sculpture dominated by carved marble and cast bronze.