Career
At school in Ardclough she modelled the soft clay from a sinkhole near her home into clay figures. At the age of nine she was sent to live in Dublin to attend Primary school. While there she worked in the studio of Thomas Farrell where she created her first work ‘a hand on a cushion’.
She was accepted into the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art where she studied drawing and painting, though she was drawn to working with clay.
Her most famous work, a statue of Father Mathew in Dublin"s O’Connell Street was inaugurated in 1893 (or 1891 ) (February 8). According to Nora J Murray’s article in Capuchin Annual (1932) the male model for the Father Mathew statue took the concept of getting plastered a little too far, was dismissed for drunkenness and was later convicted for vandalising her work.
Redmond married Doctor West Dunn, from Florence, in London in 1893. They moved to Italy and lived near Galileo’s tower in Florence.
She died there on 16 January 1930.
