Mike Fitzpatrick suggests that Anne Ryan’s new works function as sculpture, yet are figurative paintings in the round
London belongs to me,’ declares Anne Ryan in a matter-of-fact manner from her studio in Kilburn. As an artist based there for 30 years, Ryan is confident in her identity as a painter: London Irish and proud of her Limerick-city heritage. Firmly established as a painter in the London art scene, Ryan’s life and artwork are totally intertwined; art is her way of making sense of the world. She is immersed in her environment, the city and its people and responds to that stimulus through the process of looking, drawing, painting, cutting, shaping and making.
Stephanie McBride explores Deirdre Brennan’s photographic response to James Joyce’s Ulysses
