Design
Portfolio
Eleanor Flegg reports on the Irish recipients of the European Heritage Award,
the stunning creation by graduates of the Crafts Council’s Jewellery
Skills Course, and the RDS National Craft Competition and Student Art Awards
Reclaiming portraiture
Maeve McCarthy’s portrait of writer Kevin Kiely has won the inaugural
Ireland–US Council Portrait Award at the 176th RHA Annual Exhibition,
writes Riann Coulter
Vistas on to the Twilight Zone
Ciarán Bennett discovers aspects of disquiet in Elizabeth Magill’s
haunting landscapes currently on view at the Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Flying Blind
Martina Corry navigates a new route for the photographic medium, combining
techniques from the 18th century with a 21st-century aesthetic, argues Brian
McAvera
The AIB Prize
Linda Quinlan, the winner of the AIB Prize, creates miniature worlds where
the uncanny is anchored to the familiar, says Gemma Tipton
Le Brocquy – Masters and Muses
Brian McAvera visits Louis le Brocquy as he embarks upon a new series of
work in homage to his personal Masters, the first of which is premiered
here
Barry Flanagan in Dublin
This summer, Dublin’s O’Connell Street and the gardens at IMMA
will be populated with characteristic works by sculptor, Barry Flanagan,
with some rarely seen examples of his ouevre from the 1960s and 1970s featuring
in the retrospective, promises Enrique Juncosa
Annaghmakerrig – twenty-five years of
creativity
Marianne O’Kane evaluates the important contribution made to Ireland’s
artistic community by the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, County Monaghan
Whipping the Herring
Peter Murray discusses the exhibition ‘Whipping the Herring’,
currently on view at the Crawford Art Gallery, marking the gallery’s
change in status to a National Cultural Institution, the first outside the
capital
Social Studies
Eamonn McEneaney lends some local knowledge to a variety of images documenting
life in Waterford from 1854 – 1954 from the Poole family of photographers
The Shaw Fund
Peter Somerville-Large chronicles the story of George Bernard Shaw’s
gift to the National Gallery and some notable investments by subsequent
directors
Early Modern and Late - Scott Tallon Walker
Scott Tallon Walker, Ireland’s articulate exponents of International
Modernism excelled at focusing on people in their work, argues Seán
O’Reilly
Ceramics Ireland
Eleanor Flegg previews the Ceramics Ireland exhibition at the Kilkenny Arts
Festival, an event that promises to demonstrate the drama and diversity
of ceramic art
