Artist in residence at the Kilkenny Design Centre from 1966, OisÍn Kelly trained as a sculptor under Henry Moore and designed The Children of Lir in Dublin’s Garden of Remembrance, as well as the statue of Jim Larkin on O’Connell Street and Two Working Men outside County Hall in Cork.

For the Studio, Kelly carved relief portraits of James Joyce and W.B. Yeats and devised a beautiful Gaelic script for the wall plaque: Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin.