Riann Coulter offers compelling reasons to see this mid-career retrospective
Bullet holes, blocked roads, abandoned cars: the detritus of violence. Even those who have never heard of the Derry based artist Willie Doherty will find False Memory, his forthcoming exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, replete with images that are disturbingly familiar
The Lemon Street Gallery, in collaboration with RTÉ, are currently hosting an exhibition marking the fiftieth anniversary of the photography of Dublin by Nevill Johnson. For the first time a chronological account of Nevill Johnson’s artistic career is illustrated; mainly through photography, but also incorporating his painting and writing. The paintings range from the early 1940s to the ‘London’ paintings. The occasion also marks the launch of the Nevill Johnson Annual Award to assist emerging artists in the North and the South of Ireland, thereby acknowledging the influence of Belfast and Dublin on Nevill Johnson’s artistic development. At the height of his career as a painter Nevill Johnson turned to photography; Eoin O’Brien and Dickon Hall explain why