Orla de Brí

Orla de Brí was from Beaumont in Dublin, born in 1965.^[1] She attended the Grafton Academy and studied fashion. After that she went on to work designing items for various high-street brands like A Wear. She married a systems analyst and they moved to Kilmoon, County Meath where they had two children while she continued studying art. She studied sculpture and bronze casting with a teacher in the North Strand VEC and the National College of Art and Design. De Brí began her first pieces and within ten years had won a major commission for the Park West Business Park.^[2][3][4][5] De Brí has since had a number of solo shows and commissions around the world. Her art is in collections all over Ireland as well as abroad.^[2][5][6]