We have just released the Sister Imelda Carew Perpetual Trophy to the Carew family which will be a "Challenge for Change" environmental schools competition in honour of Sr Imelda Carew, who drowned tragically off Inch Strand, Co.Kerry with a colleague in August 2014. Sr Imelda, a Presentation Sister and teacher, devoted a lot of her time to justice ministry across Ireland and around the world. Her family in response to the tragedy initiated this project to create a trophy using ancient black bog oak, possibly thousands of years old, from the Carew family farm in Tipperary. Sr Imelda's niece Helen Carew approached Shane on behalf of the family to help implement the final design. The final design uses the sculpted bog oak, a brushed brass, quartz and acrylic plinth.
Shane who knows the family, hopes "the competition for this "Challenge for Change" will serve her memory well and create a focus for secondary school children to investigate social and environmental challenges into the future."
The bog oak was one of the most dense materials we have ever worked on in the workshop. Helen had done the initial sculpting and we finished it for her.
Shane who knows the family, hopes "the competition for this "Challenge for Change" will serve her memory well and create a focus for secondary school children to investigate social and environmental challenges into the future."
The bog oak was one of the most dense materials we have ever worked on in the workshop. Helen had done the initial sculpting and we finished it for her.
