Archetypal motifs emerge as though retrieved from the ‘ploughed fields of the soul,’ writes John Hutchinson of Patrick Hall’s paintings at Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’, a peculiarly memorable film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, came to mind when I heard that Patrick Hall had decided to spend some winter months in Thailand, where he eventually made much of the work that is being shown at his current exhibition in Dublin’s Hillsboro Fine Art. It tells a story about ghosts, past incarnations, and the fear of death, which are the kind of subjects that Hall has often incorporated into his art. In his paintings, as in Weerasethakul’s film, such things are taken for granted as having a place in daily life; in both cases, despite dissimilar styles, their poetry is founded on unquestioning acceptance of what to most of us might seem fanciful or uncanny.
Susan Rogers visits woodturner Liam Flynn at his County Limerick studio
William Laffan previews the exhibition ‘Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design 1690-1840′ which opens at the Art Institute of Chicago in March
In his design for the new Coast Guard Station in Doolin, County Clare, Dominic Stevens has discovered his architecture of the Burren; an architecture of abstract rocks, describing the material nature of place, writes Steve Larkin