Angela Forte is an artist who is best known for her distinctive use of geometric form and colour. Her influences include Henri Matisse and Harry Clarke, and her original hand-woven tapestries are simultaneously arresting and meditative. Forte took up tapestry at aged sixteen, studied weaving in NCAD and experienced early success. In the years between 1980 and 1995 she completed many large tapestry commissions for high-profile bodies such as Bank of Ireland, IBM and the Office of Public Works. Other commitments took Forte away from her art until, in 2017, she made a strong return with a solo exhibition in Wexford’s Blue Egg Gallery.
Unravelling the sequence of carving on the stones has been challenging but has been helped by the fact that there are so many examples to study, writes Elizabeth Shee Twohig