She began exhibiting at the RHA in 1932, a portrait ‘Anna’, and continued to exhibit there until 1947. In her masters certificate she came first in Ireland. In her second year she was awarded the teachership-in-training scholarship, and in 1934 won the Taylor scholarship for her sculpture ‘Prodigal son’. She studied anatomy on her own, and spent her summer holidays in France and Italy. On her return to Dublin, she enrolled in the Metropolitan School of Art (1930–35). While there, she took drawing lessons at a provincial académie-des-beaux-arts, an experience that determined her interest in art. Reared primarily by her aunt, she was educated at the Dominican college, Eccles St., Dublin, and studied French at a school in Montpellier for three years. hospital, Dublin, eldest of three children of Jeremiah Hayes, an RIC member who worked on maintenance in the prison service, and was resident at 23 Mountjoy St., Derry city, and Gertrude Hayes (née Lawlor). Hayes (Ó Ríordáin), (Mary) Gabriel (1909–78), sculptor and painter, was born 25 August 1909 at Holles St. Have you seen Three Graces? Tell us what you think about the sculpture by tweeting us (Ó Ríordáin), (Mary) Gabriel Gabriel Hayes also features in the Dictionary of Irish Biography, read her entry below. However the sculpture was significant and should have been applauded in their own right, depicting Ireland’s industrial progress, images of shipbuilding, aviation and the tobacco industry can be seen carved in her ‘vigorous socialist-realist style’. Little was written about the significance of the sculpture at the time, with most people choosing to focus on the fact that it was a woman who had received the commission and that she was brave enough to hang on scaffolding so high outside of the building. Gabriel Hayes was awarded the contract, and it took her three years to complete the commission. Archbishop McQuaid said of the college (at the time St Mary’s College of Domestic Science) that “here will be trained the women who will assist in building happy homes, for here will be imparted right knowledge and practice of the home craft.’
The sculpture is notable for its depiction of women. The sculpture, which features in Volume III of the Art and Architecture of Ireland is now part of the facade of DIT, on Cathal Brugha Street in Dublin. This week’s Irish Times Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks is Gabriel Hayes’ Three Graces from 1943.
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