With the recent passing of Ronald Tallon, Seán Ó Laoire reflects on the end of an era and remembers Michael Scott, founder and charismatic figurehead of Scott Tallon Walker
The death of Ronald Tallon in June this year brought to a final conclusion the original creators of the architectural practice known as Scott Tallon Walker. The founder Michael Scott died in 1989. He had a number of professional incarnations, the most notable and enduring of which is the practice he formed in 1974, with his protégés Ronald Tallon, and Robin Walker. Robin Walker, born in 1924, died in 1991. Walker, having worked with Le Corbusier in Paris, joined Scott for eight years before departing to study under, and later teach, with Mies van der Rohe in Chicago. Walker was, from that time, to philosophically and professionally commit to adapting Mies van der Rohe’s tenets to an Irish context. This ethos informed and still informs the guiding principles of the practice.
Catherine Marshall assesses the unwavering artistic journey of Maria Simonds-Gooding in advance of her retrospective in Dublin
The class of 2014 is looking anew to the tangible joys of creativity, in contrast to its documentation, writes Gerry Walker of the trends emerging from this year’s graduate shows.
Carissa Farrell is transfixed by the shard-like glass birds and decayed flowers that combine to fascinating effect in Graham Gingles’s signature boxes at the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
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