Michael Kane has not only forged a style, he has helped substantially to forge the style of others, writes Brian Fallon ahead of the Hugh Lane Gallery’s survey exhibition in October
Michael Kane has been around, as they say colloquially, for a good two generations and is now edging his way into a third. For this, he has paid the price of being more or less taken for granted – that is to say, his novelty value is past, and this in an age when novelty is still prized above other, more lasting qualities. Yet Kane has not lapsed into either reaction or repetition and remains a ‘live’ personality in Irish art, refusing to be pushed aside or consigned to the past. Though he exhibits rather infrequently, he has remained on the map.
Brian McAvera sees Colin Davidson wrestle with sexual politics in his new series of Nudes on view this autumn at Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin.
Can the pragmatic 21st-century East range at Trinity College Dublin match the 18th-century splendour of the West Front? James Howley appraises recent developments on the campus
Behind the bustle and colour of the 2016 graduate shows Gerry Walker finds a wealth of well-researched, accomplished projects.