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Get Together 2012 Prize Draw: Win Eamonn O’Doherty’s Original Sketch for Anna Livia Sculpture

As part of the event Get Together 2012, Visual Artists Ireland will host a prize draw for a work by the late Eamonn O’Doherty. His Anna Livia on Dublin’s O’Connell Street, colloquially known as the Floozie in the Jacuzzi, became a controversial work in the history of public art. Originally placed in O’Connell Street, the bronze figure was removed in 2002 & reinstated, without the fountain, near Heuston Station earlier in 2011. We have been very lucky to obtain an original sketch for the Anna Livia sculpture which we will have as a grand prize for the draw. Buy a ticket for the event and be in with a chance to win! http://visualartists.ie/education-2/current-programme/?ee=76