Irish Arts Review, Summer 2008
Margaret Egan’s landscape paintings and figurative compositions have a shared aesthetic; both are moody, complex and dynamic
This summer sees Dublin City Gallery arrayed with its debut collection of 300 works of art and, for the first since 1913, all thirty-nine of the controversial conditional paintings will be shown together, writes Mic Moroney
Brian McAvera talks to Charles Tyrrell about the influence of the Beara Peninsula on his work, his approach to abstraction, and the structures and processes that underpin his painting.
Patrick J Murphy discusses the development of John Behan’s distinguished career as he marks his 70th birthday and prepares for two exhibitions later this year
Stephanie McBride views the plan and process of an angel’s journey in Amelia Stein’s studies of Imogen Stuart’s studio
Ireland’s historic associations with horse-racing failed to yield an 18th-century equivalent to England’s George Stubbs, nevertheless this void was dramatically filled in the 20th century by Jack B Yeats’ and Basil Blackshaw’s heroic renditions, argues Brian Fallon
John Mulcahy examines the commissioning and provenance of this striking 18th-century sporting screen painted by Richard Roper
Kilkenny is widely admired for its medieval and Renaissance buildings, but is this architectural legacy at risk today from a proposed Inner Relief Road, asks John Bradley
Andy Halpin examines the Dunmore Cave hoard from 10th-century Kilkenny, now on display at the National Museum, and suggests an explanation for its collection of silver embellishments
Isn’t it about time that historic Kilkenny reclaimed its archaeological treasures from the National Museum of Ireland and re-established a local museum in the city? Here, Christiann Corlett recounts how the Kilkenny Archaeological Society established its own museum as far back as 1849 but having painstakenly collected so many items mainly of local origin, gave them all into the safe keeping of the National Museum in 1910
Richard Hurley considers Liam McCormick’s development of church architecture in the late 1960s and 1970s, celebrated in a new publication Liam McCormick Architect: North by Northwest and an exhibition at the Irish Architectural Archive.
Alison Fitzgerald previews a selection of imaginative designs, created to acknowledge a personal debt to the makers’ source of inspiration, ahead of the National Craft Gallery’s summer exhibition
