PEREGRINE O’GORMLEY
P.O. Box 513, La Conner, WA 98257 peregrine@peregrineogormley.com www.peregrineogormley.com
The subjects of Peregrine O’Gormley’s work relate to elements of human experience depicted through living forms. Though anatomically respectful, they focus on feeling and spirit rather than precise emulation. The pieces in his new body of work speak of a sense of calm and resilience in the face of adversity; they relate to the long term.
“With each new piece, unique challenges arise that require modified and or entirely new techniques to solve,” says the artist. “My work incorporates more and more stone in recent years, and with it comes the need for stone specific tools and techniques. I’m finding the unique surface textures achievable in stone to be quite interesting and enjoyable.”
O’Gormley has won multiple National Sculpture Society awards including the Pat Munson Prize for Avian Sculpture 2015 and 2017, and in 2016 the Green-Wood Cemetery Award. Upcoming September shows include Western Visions at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Birds in Art at Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, a solo exhibition titled
Old Tree at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and in October a duo show with Rob Vetter at Smith & Vallee Gallery. Collectors will also find his work in the October 2021 Woolaroc Retrospective and Sale at the Woolaroc Museum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
O’Gormley is represented by Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and at Smith & Vallee Gallery in Edison, Washington.