Form and colour in Sam Walsh’s new series of paintings at Visual in Carlow, tantalise but ultimately remain evocative, writes Catherine Marshall
The exhibition of Sam Walsh’s post-2008 work ‘The Coercion of Substance’ opens in Visual in Carlow on 17 September after which it will travel in January to the Highlanes Gallery in Drogheda and, later, to the Regional Cultural Centre in Letterkenny. Like all of his previous exhibitions this one will be anticipated with keen interest by those who are already familiar with his work, especially as his intention in this body of work is to do something he has been working towards for some time; he intends to represent what he believes is the proper balance between drawing and painting. That may sound simple, as straightforward as Walsh’s overall aim in his art, which is to present something profoundly complex in the simplest possible way without diminishing or reducing it to the merely banal. Of course that’s not simple at all, especially for someone like Walsh who respects and values nuance more than most
Stephanie McBride talks to Mike Bunn about the craft of old school photography and his plans to establish an academy for photographers
Losing faith in the early success of her work led Miseon Lee on a journey of self-discovery, both in artistic terms and geographically, writes James Hanley