Sarah Glennie selects Willie Doherty’s Remains, a recent addition to IMMA’s Collection
I first saw Willie Doherty’s Remains as part of his remarkable exhibition ‘Unseen’ staged in Derry during the city’s Year of Culture. This exhibition, set in a disused office space, was a quiet and very powerful counterpoint to the spectacle of rebranding that the city underwent during the year, using culture as a signal that the city was moving away from its past into a new future. Derry has been a constant reference point for Doherty during his thirty-year career, and the span of the works brought together for ‘Unseen’ served as a stark reminder that historical and political narratives do not play out as neatly as this.
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