Iain McColl

Born in 1947, Iain McColl is a renowned Scottish sculptor who has established himself as one of the leading artists making public art in the UK. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art and is a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. His most recent public art commissions include a new Gateway Sculpture on one of Belfast’s most prominent roundabouts as part of Belfast City Council’s Renewing the Routes programme and the Cottrell memorial Sculpture at Sterling University. Previous commissions include British Rail, Scottish Arts Council, and Highland Regional Council. In 1993 he was appointed official war artist to Bosnia by the Ministry of Defence to UNPROFOR. Other commissions include, Loch Feochan, Glasgow (video wall), Guardian Angel, Ireland, Achnacloich Tower, Argyll, Zephir Winds, Glasgow, Cockerel UK wide (millennium milepost) and Weather Station, Glasgow. He has exhibited widely in the UK. He was sculpture in residence at Éigse in 1991.

Ian McColl exhibited at Éigse in 1991 and 1992.

Art collection

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Origins

Set up in 1992, The Carlow Art Collection is a voluntary community initiative that has been surrounded by goodwill and generosity from the people of Carlow. It has expanded into a diverse collection of work with artists from around the world. CAC became a fully registered charity in 2018. The home of our art collection is in Carlow College. The Carlow Art Collection is free to view in the front halls of Carlow College, Monday to Friday, and in the garden every day of the year.

Today

The art works in the permanent collection include painting, print, drawing, sculpture, sound, photography, live art, film and activism, with more to come. The collection and CAC projects reflect a broad range of art by over thirty artists, many of whom visited, exhibited, engaged with or lived in the area.

Our Goal

The CAC is deeply indebted to the artists who contribute to the collection, to its board members past and present, and to the many people and organisations that support it technically and financially. The Carlow Art Collection will continue to expand on the ideas of what art is and what an art collection can be, and become.