Eileen MacDonagh’s recent exhibition at VISUAL is a testimony to the artist’s love of stone, writes Carissa Farrell
The main gallery in VISUAL (Centre for Contemporary Art in Carlow) boasts the largest and most ambitiously proportioned space for displaying contemporary art in Ireland. It is also a difficult space and responding to its awesome scale is a major challenge. It makes demands both conceptually and financially – resourcing a project of this size would test even the most inventive and capable artists.
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