Alannah Hopkin previews new work from Katherine Boucher Beug’s forthcoming show in June at Oliver Sears’ Gallery, Dublin
For the past forty years, Katherine Boucher Beug has worked in her studio beside her home, deep in the countryside in Dunderrow, Co Cork. “She is undoubtedly one of the most talented and least known artists working in Ireland today”, according to a keen collector of her work. She has had solo shows at the Crawford Gallery, the Fenton Gallery and the West Cork Arts Centre, and participated in numerous group shows. Her work is in the collections of the Arts Council, the Crawford Municipal Gallery, and UCC’s Modern Art Collection. But outside Cork, few people have heard of her. Her forthcoming Dublin show will introduce her intense, finely crafted work to a wider audience.
Ahead of Dragana Jurisic’s solo show at the RHA in September we republish Stephanie McBride’s examination of the photographer’s 2011 show at the Droichead Arts Centre, studies of urban survival taken during the Celtic Tiger years, revealing Ireland’s struggling society.
Paul Larmour visits the new theatre, which he describes as a boon for the dramatic arts and the most exciting building in Belfast