Donal Maguire sees an elegant statement on the interconnectedness of all things in David Beattie’s installation at IMMA
In his poem, The Lake Isle of lnisfree, WB Yeats forms a Romantic vision of an island, perceiving it as a place of isolation, where self-sufficiency and independence are imaginable. This image of an island as insular and disconnected from the world is a common literary and artistic device. Yet, like Hy-Brazil, it is an illusion, existing only in the mind. Islands, as with all material things, exist in the world and in relation to it; an ontological perspective that is the basis for a recent work by artist David Beattie, suggestively titled, The Impossibility of an Island.
Eddie Rafferty’s love affair with Africa is manifest at his first major survey exhibition on view this summer at the FE McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, writes Riann Coulter.
