Gerry Walker introduces a number of distinguished graduates from the class of 2012, celebrating skill, technological proficiency and insight.
Two years ago, while discussing the class of 2010, this writer noted here that given the prevailing economic climate third-level Colleges tended to play to their strengths. Some placed the focus on new digital media while others made a virtue of retaining and refining older creative orthodoxies. To date little has changed within the creative arts education sphere. Limited budgetary allocations are diligently husbanded, duplication of resources is actively discouraged and expectations of enhanced creative endeavour are sustained if not heightened.
John McLaughlin assesses heneghan peng’s dramatically sited but elegantly unobtrusive visitor centre for the Giant’s Causeway in Antrim
Peter Pearson makes a plea for re-roofing Kilmacurragh, the Queen Anne house set in an arcadian parkland in County Wicklow
Peter Murray finds similarities between the fictional character Kim and 19th-century photographer John Burke, whose path in Afghanistan, has been retraced by Simon Norfolk