Phyllis Burke (b.1930)

Phyllis Burke began attending the National College of Art as an evening student in 1948. By 1954 she was one of the first students of Johnny Murphy ,later of Murphy-Devitt Studios, at the college. After her first commission for a church in Nigeria, she was commissioned by Liam McCormick to create three windows depicting Irish saints for the church he was then designing at Milford, Co. Donegal. There, her work was installed alongside work by established stained glass artists Patrick Pollen and Patrick Pye. Married to architect Arthur Gibney, she regularly worked directly with priests and worked for various architects.