30 Cake Artists got together in Ireland to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of The Easter Rising, when Ireland faught is way to an Independent Republic after being ruled and surpressed by the British.

This is my contribution to the collaboration, which kicked off it’s exhibition in Dublin yesterday and will be on view in different venues troughout the country. For more details go to https://www.facebook.com/1916-A-tribute-in-sugar-art-506519759528900/

My contribution was inspired by Norman Teelings painting The GPO Burns, http://www.normanteeling.com/rising.php

I used techniques like sponging, handpainting, modelling, airbrushing and royal icing to create a multidimensional Sugar Art piece, trying to capture the vibrant colours of the fire in the night sky of the original painting.

A bit of historical background:
Why take over a Post Office?
The General Post Office was the communications centre of the country and linked Ireland and Britain. To the rebels it also symbolised British control over Ireland.
On Easter Monday, 24th April 1916, P H Pearse, James Connolly and other rebels drawn from different groups took over the GPO. Staff and customers downstairs in the GPO were forced to leave at gunpoint and Patrick Pearse, standing at the front of the building, read the Proclamation declaring Ireland independent from Britain. Most people at the time were not very interested in what he was saying and didn’t expect a week of fighting and destruction to follow. During the battle the Irish rebels used the GPO as their headquarter and got under serious gunfire.
The GPO was utterly destroyed in 1916, the roof collapsed and the fires that burned smouldered for a long time afterwards. GPO staff worked from temporary premises for several years until the building was rebuilt in the 1920s and opened again for business. The beautiful front of the building, with its columns and classical style, is as it was before 1916.