Gary Coyle’s work is often unfairly regarded as Gothic in both concept and tone, writes Gerry Walker
Two years ago, Dublin artist Gary Coyle mounted a personally significant exhibition at the Project Arts Centre in which he pondered the implications of loss of artistic direction in a literal and metaphorical sense. He works a lot in photography and performance, and is also a highly skilled draughtsman. He has an abiding interest in the familiarity of locality and the inheritance of a sense of place and this, in what at times appears as borderline obsession, is key to an understanding of his work.
The legacy of stained-glass artist Helen Moloney is in the vibrancy of her colours and her use of coloured glass and lead lines in an abstract manner, writes Bart Felle
Tom Climent’s recent paintings appear to edge more and more away from pure abstraction, writes Mark Ewart
Margo Banks is so instinctively attuned to her subject that her energetic approach and her subject matter are inseparable, writes Isabella Evangelisti
