‘Salve’, an exhibition of new work by Dorothy Cross in the Kerlin Gallery on 29 May. It suggests, says Isabel Nolan, that we are caught between states, physical and mental, between self and other, ‘between what we know, don’t know and can imagine’.
Dorothy Cross’s work strikes me as not being connected by a particular subject or medium, but by the sense that extreme curiosity and an excitable and scintillating intelligence drive her practice. Cross’s passion for investigating the nature of things (animal, vegetable, and mineral), places, and events as well as for re-imagining and transforming their meanings and qualities has led her to make a very diverse range of work both thematically and in terms of media
The National Library of Ireland recently acquired an album of thirty-six watercolours and prints made by James Cavanah Murphy in Portugal between 1789 and 1790. Michael McCarthy recalls the career and travels of this unusual draughtsman
The Smurfit Art Collection spans three continents and contains some of the best 20th-century Irish art. Ciaran MacGonical reviews a new catalogue of the collection