Eleanor Flegg examines Peter Rowen’s portraits of Irish designer-makers at work, currently on view at Dublin Airport to celebrate ID2015
What is most interesting about the word work, wrote Raymond Williams in 1976, is its pre-dominant specialization to regular paid |HB 9BHE&:’ employment. Work, meaning activity and effort or achievement, has been modified by a definition of its imposed conditions, such as ‘steady’ or timed work, or working for a wage or salary: being hired.’ And, at the base of these definitions, runs the ‘short, colloquial and popular word job … the piece of work, the activity you get paid for, the thing you have to catch or to shift or to do the ordinary working experience.’
Susan Rogers visits woodturner Liam Flynn at his County Limerick studio
William Laffan previews the exhibition ‘Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design 1690-1840′ which opens at the Art Institute of Chicago in March
In his design for the new Coast Guard Station in Doolin, County Clare, Dominic Stevens has discovered his architecture of the Burren; an architecture of abstract rocks, describing the material nature of place, writes Steve Larkin