New work from David Eager Maher at the Cross Gallery in September, will bewitch, beguile and bewilder, writes Riann Coulter
David Eager Maher is a time traveller. He reaches back into the past and plucks styles and motifs from other periods; he pillages art history and plunders the literary canon. The result is a heady concoction of Rococco architecture, Victorian art, colonial imagery and fin de siècle literature. In his imagined worlds, monumental chandeliers, iconic chairs, Indian palaces and the common spud share equal status. This autumn Eager Maher will present his second solo exhibition at the Cross Gallery, Dublin.
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