Dony MacManus
Irish sculptor and educator
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Donal "Dony" MacManus (born 1971) is an Irish sculptor and educator.
MacManus graduated with a degree from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin (1995), as well as an Art Teaching Diploma (1998). He worked as a teacher in St. David's, Artane, Dublin. In 1999 he went to New York and studied in New York Academy of Art gaining a Master in Fine Arts (2001).[1] He has a number of sculptures on display in New York and Washington, D.C.
MacManus returned to Ireland in 2004 and founded Irish Academy of Figurative Art, in Ranelagh in Dublin.[2]
In 2011 MacManus co-founded the Sacred Art School,[3] in Florence, Italy.[4] He is also a board member of Newman College Ireland.
Works
- The Linesman (1999), Dublin Docklands[5]
- St Josemaría Escrivá (2000), bronze for the Catholic Information Center, Washington, D.C.
- Hobey Baker (2001), cast bronze, St. Paul's School, New Hampshire. U.S.A.
- St Joseph and the Child Jesus (2002), bronze for the Catholic Information Center, Washington, D.C.
- Cardinal Newman (2004), Catholic Information Center, Washington, D.C.
- St Joseph and the Child Jesus (2007) cast bronze, Tallahassee, Florida.
- The Game Piece, originally on N4, moved to Jail Park, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.
- Theology of the Body Sculpture
- Archbishop Fulton Sheen (2016), Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church, New York.[6]
- Bishop William O'Higgins St. Mary's Church, Drumlish, Co. Longford, 2020.