Cristín Leach looks at Maeve McCarthy’s new paintings as she prepares for her forthcoming exhibition at the Molesworth Gallery
The painter Maeve McCarthy has received several awards for her portraiture, including the inaugural Ireland-US Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award in 2006 for her Self Portrait. Her Portrait of Maeve Binchy is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery at the NGI. She is also an accomplished landscape and still-life painter.
The collection of 19th century stereo negatives of the Gap Girls of Dunloe in Kerry comprise a rare and unique body of work, writes Julian Campbell
