Beyond their arresting materiality new works from John Gibbons convey his interest in spiritual and religious history, writes Luke Naessens
Metals, with their remarkable capacity for transformation from liquid to solid states, have long played a central part in art, war and everyday life. We have cast, forged and welded metal things ranging from axe heads to brooches, airplanes to the filaments of a lightbulb. A new exhibition of work by John Gibbons, one of Ireland’s foremost contemporary sculptors, presents a meditation on this vast tradition of art, industry and craft through the lens of one particular medium: welded steel.
Eddie Rafferty’s love affair with Africa is manifest at his first major survey exhibition on view this summer at the FE McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, writes Riann Coulter.
