FergusCostello.com
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Fergus Costello-Liturgical Artist
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The least tangible thing that Fergus Costello has carved over the years has been his reputation as an unique and gifted artist. Unique because of the small and unfashionable field of Irish Christian art in which he first specialised. Gifted in that some of the work he has done stands as some of the finest contemporary religious art in the country. Fergus Costello left The Dublin College of Art and Design in 1975 in order to concentrate full time on his work. From the garage of his house he began his work as a designer and creator of Church interiors (something he was later to define as liturgical art). Initially Fergus made varied and strong use of metallic and ceramic materials in his work. The effect that the artist attains with these media can be seen in Mercy Sisters Chapel, Cappaquin, Co. Waterford in which brass and native hardwoods are used. In his early career Fergus also did a lot of painting. His style is one of sweeping curved line, utilising vibrant colours and patterns as can be seen in Ring Parish Church, Co. Waterford. In many ways the artist sought to move away from the traditional Religious images, and look at the same Christian concepts in a new light.
In 1996 Fergus decide to found the studio. Up until this point Fergus had been working more or less on his own with at most four-five employees. He had collaborated with different people on big projects but in order to attain greater control over the interiors he envisaged he knew he needed a full-time professional crew. Fergus Costello Studios was thus born and Fergus moved the whole operation to a massive new premises inside an old factory. Now Fergus can use the warehouse space for drying huge trees salvaged from the bogs and has converted other parts of the premises into offices and a viewing gallery. New horizons stretch before the artist as now he possesses the tools with which to implement the powerful scope of his visions.
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