‘I just can’t cut myself off from the real world, what’s happening around me – there is that underlying anxiety,’ sculptor Tom Fitzgerald tells Mike Fitzpatrick
MF: Tom, your sculptural work is grounded in natural materials, stone and wood, combined with a strong sense of place, while your drawings and wall works explore ideas and concepts that are more global and address the human situation through humour.
TF: Materials are very important to me. I started off using things like plastics and fi breglass but I found they did not fi t the way I thought. I did not really begin to progress until I started using the old, basic, traditional materials like stone and wood. That’s what set my imagination alight.
John Noel Smith’s journey continues with an enlivening sense of momentum, writes Margarita Cappock
