Artists

A Man for all Seasons

A Man for all Seasons


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In the Mind’s Eye

In the Mind’s Eye

Due to Camille Souter’s versatility as a painter, her paintings can be difficult to define, writes Garrett Cormican


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The width of Yourself

The width of Yourself

Artist Eamon Colman reveals the lure of art and landscape from an early age to John P O’Sullivan


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Drawing the Line

Drawing the Line

Felicity Clear’s work shows its tangential relationship to modernist visions of utopia, writes Francis Halsall


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Unapologetic protagonist

Unapologetic protagonist

Amanda Doran luxuriates in the painted medium and celebrates the character of those she paints, writes Ingrid Lyons


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Sophisticated Primitive

Sophisticated Primitive

It becomes increasingly clear that Nano Reid was ahead of her time and milieu, writes Brian Fallon


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All that  remains

All that remains

Themes of the natural world and climate chaos lie at the heart of Caoimhín Gaffney’s exhibition, writes Eamonn Maxwell


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Classical values

Classical values

‘I suppose my approach to painting is very much a classical one,’ Maeve McCarthy tells Aidan Dunne as she reflects on her personal style


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Graduates 2024

Graduates 2024

The politics of identity and the fashioning of the self emerge as strong themes in the 2024 graduate shows, writes Niamh NicGhabhann


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Brush with the past

Brush with the past

John O’Sullivan visits artist John Jobson at his home on the Little Sugar Loaf in County Wicklow


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In perspective

In perspective

Vivienne Roche’s approach is formally beautiful and seemingly straightforward in its address, but opens onto profound and unsettling ideas about time, loss and persistence, writes Sarah Kelleher


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Wayfarer

Wayfarer

Anthony Carey Stannus was skilled in capturing the excitement and energy of vessels at sea, and also adept at depicting buildings, landscapes and genre scenes, writes Peter Murray


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Birds observed

Birds observed

Jason Turner’s father kept racing pigeons and, with Jason confined to home through illness, the birds offered a fascinating source of stimulation for him, writes Catherine Marshall


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Between the layers

Between the layers

Jean Curran tells Stephanie McBride that in her editing of cinematic work she is stopping the movie, asking the audience to go back to the fundamentals


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Time’s eye

Time’s eye

Stephanie McBride regards the work of an accomplished 19th-century photographer who sensitively recorded portraits of people and place


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Boy and a blanket

Boy and a blanket

Róisín Kennedy speaks with this year’s winner of the Ireland–U.S. Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Daniel Nelis


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New hierarchy

New hierarchy

Margarita Cappock visits painter Bernadette Kiely at her home and studio in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny


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Strata

Strata

Dorothy Cross’ new work feels explicitly relevant to the times we are living in, writes Francis Halsall


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Pioneer Modernist

Pioneer Modernist

Riann Coulter traces the path of the sculptor Hilary Heron, whose retrospective exhibition is showing at the Irish Museum of Modern Art


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Quicken

Quicken

Rachel McIntyre welcomes a new moving image and sound artwork by Deirdre O’Mahony that confronts the politics of farming and agriculture in Ireland


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Sacred landscape

Sacred landscape

Brian McAvera points to some highlights from Brian Lalor’s forthcoming retrospective at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre


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Dreamscapes

Dreamscapes

Aidan Dunne finds in the paintings of Anita Shelbourne subjects woven into the very fabric of environment


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Master of the everyday

Master of the everyday

Marie Bourke looks at the career of William Mulready, a painter of genre, landscape and informal portraits, as well as an illustrator, art advisor and art educator


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Western landscape

Western landscape

Brian Fallon travels to Roscommon where he enjoys the landscapes of artist Malachy Costello


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Receding planes

Receding planes

Dickon Hall considers the work of Northern Irish artist Arthur Armstrong on the centenary of his birth


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Quiet conservative

Quiet conservative

Philip McEvansoneya traces Dublin-born Stanhope Alexander Forbes’ early years in Ireland


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Spring Flowers

Spring Flowers

Seamus O’Brien outlines the spring flowers of Irish native trees, detailing their locations in Ireland


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Painter and advocate

Painter and advocate

Logan Sisley salutes an indomitable and towering figure in Irish art, Sarah Purser


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The Myth of Medusa

The Myth of Medusa

Sonia Shiel turns painting on its head, writes Catherine Marshall, and her exhibition invites reflective pauses, moments to question what you have just seen


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Free  spirit

Free spirit

Kathryn Milligan finds that the tension between Patrick Leonard’s representational art and its contrast with high Modernism is peppered throughout the critical response to his work


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Island life

Island life

Gráinne Coughlan examines the work of Bere Island artist Mary K Sullivan


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Out of exile

Out of exile

John P O’Sullivan meets with John Kindness ahead of his exhibition ‘Odyssey’, at the Royal Hibernian Academy


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Silent matter

Silent matter

Aidan Dunne considers the work of four artists, whose paintings are on view in the atmospheric space of Rathfarnham Castle


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Noble studies

Noble studies

Julian Campbell remembers the painter William Osborne, in the bicentenary of his birth


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Full circle

Full circle

Peter Murray explores the life and work of sculptor John Byrne


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Heavenly light

Heavenly light

David Caron meets stained-glass artist Phyllis Burke, who tells him, ‘a sculptor’s medium is stone, wood or metal, a musician’s is sound, a glassblower’s is glass – but a stained-glass artist’s medium is light, and glass is their tool’


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A Sense of Home

A Sense of Home

Ahead of Gordon Hogan’s first exhibition in Ireland, Mike Fitzpatrick visits the artist at his home in Tipperary


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New World pioneer

New World pioneer

Martha Severens tells the story of Henrietta de Beaulieu Dering Johnston, who travelled from Dublin to Charles Town, South Carolina, becoming America’s first professional woman artist


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Solar Attraction

Solar Attraction

If there’s a consistent thematic in my work it’s about how meaning is made, artist Isabel Nolan tells Brian McAvera


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Mapping the Magdalene

Mapping the Magdalene

Niamh NicGhabhann explores the detail and impetus behind the latest work in the ‘Magdalene Series’ of exhibitions at Rua Red


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Natural Wonders

Natural Wonders

Sarah Kelleher considers how Aoife Layton’s highly theatrical compositions underscore our uneasy relationship with the natural world


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US

US

Cristín Leach talks with Cian McLoughlin, whose ongoing interest in the painting of crowds is ‘accidentally topical’


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Maud’s Mary?

Maud’s Mary?

A drawing of the Virgin attributed to Maud Gonne leaves Christian Dupont wondering


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Spaces in between

Spaces in between

Joanna Kidney’s work has an abstract quality and a poetic sensibility, writes Margarita Cappock


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Distant Journeys

Distant Journeys

Gerry Davis tells Yvonne Davis how an exhibition by a well travelled Japanese artist inspired him to document his own Asian trip


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Rethinking Painting

Rethinking Painting

Niamh NicGhabhann finds that central to Emma Roche’s recent painting is a concern for the stress of assembly-line work


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Beyond Homage

Beyond Homage

The relationship between Francis Bacon’s permanent studio at the Hugh Lane and John Beattie’s cinematic reconstruction of a Piet Mondrian’s studio opens up a narrative between both spaces, writes Josef Uecker


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Making waves

Making waves

Peter Murray discovers that nature, culture and science intersect in the work of George Bolster


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Abstraction

Abstraction

The RHA’s exhibition indicates that the term ‘abstract’ now encompasses a broad church of artistic endeavour, writes Aidan Dunne


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On the wing

On the wing

Photographer and filmmaker Martin Healy tells Aidan Dunne how there’s something magical in using an analogue camera, ‘an alchemy’


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On a pedestal

On a pedestal

Peter Murray considers an exhibition of work by contemporary artists that celebrates the inspirational Italian, Giovanni Battista Piranesi


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Deep sea

Deep sea

Ahead of her exhibition in Dublin, Brian Fallon looks at the work of artist Carol Hodder


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A different cloth

A different cloth

Seán Kissane sees an artistic tradition in the work of Sibyl Montague that continues on from the French artist Louise Bourgeois


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An Irishman in Italy

An Irishman in Italy

Solomon Delane made his name in Rome, where ‘milords’ from Britain and Ireland, making the Grand Tour, would acquire works of art and antique, writes Peter Murray


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Chronicler of the city

Chronicler of the city

Flora Mitchell was a passionate recorder of vanishing city architecture, writes Hilary Pyle


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Through the Looking Glass

Through the Looking Glass

For young girls, especially, learning how to control their appearance can feel like a survival tactic, photographer Eva O’Leary tells Richard Mosse


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The Birth of Modernism in Irish Art

The Birth of Modernism in Irish Art

The artists can be seen as unintentionally inscribing in their own visual language a chapter in the history of Ireland, writes Vera Ryan


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A State of Flux

A State of Flux

Grateful to have art as a release, Paul Doran’s work is infused with positivity, writes Susan Campbell ahead of his first solo show in Dublin this month


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A Sense of Place

A Sense of Place

Sorca O’Farrell’s work conveys a rich and atmospheric sense of place, writes James Hanley ahead of her exhibition at the Easter Snow Gallery in Dublin


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Vibrant Waves

Vibrant Waves

Chekhov, Vonnegut, Murakami and Swift inspire the work of Natalia Black and prompt her imagination, writes Margarita Cappock


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Visual Keeper

Visual Keeper

Acclaimed West of Ireland artist Pádraic Reaney has made Irish art and its ‘ancientness’ traditional again, but in a truly radical way, writes Gerald Dawe


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The Pursuit of Light

The Pursuit of Light

While she valued her Irish roots, artist Hilda van Stockum found that she could express herself best in the Dutch genre of still life, writes Hilary Pyle


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Swimming with Dali

Swimming with Dali

I often wonder if I am trying to capture and hold on to a memory, to stop this world for a minute, artist and master printmaker James McCreary tells Brian McAvera


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Emerging Light

Emerging Light

Sullivan uses military installations to create challenging site-specific work, writes Glenn Loughran


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Sensory effects

Sensory effects

Matisse is ‘a kind of grandfather of my thinking’, Taffina Flood tells Susan Campbell


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Sui Generis

Sui Generis

The child-like quality in Tadhg Mcsweeney’s work is deliberate, the attempt of an adult to find a way through his experience of living, writes Brian Lynch


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Juvenile genii

Juvenile genii

John Trotter was a bright star in the Dublin Society’s drawing school in the mid-18th century, but his failure to achieve the success expected of him remains something of a mystery, writes Peter Murray


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Reflected Distortions

Reflected Distortions

I learned to trust my instincts and it gave me permission to get things wrong, Sinead McKeever tells Brian McAvera


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Curious Encounters

Curious Encounters

Joseph Heffernan’s work hones in on a playful innocence without sacrificing any of the pathos, writes Michael Waldron


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Wry Existentialist

Wry Existentialist

Gary Coyle’s work is often unfairly regarded as Gothic in both concept and tone, writes Gerry Walker


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Celebratory Pop

Celebratory Pop

Ahead of his upcoming exhibition and 80th birthday, Riann Coulter pays tribute to one of Ireland’s most renowned artists, Neil Shawcross


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Veiled Metaphors

Veiled Metaphors

Robert Armstrong talks to Brian McAvera about his varied body of work and his pathway from graphic design to landscape painting


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Fire and freedom

Fire and freedom

Influenced by his travels, David Dunne’s work has been a deep and profound study on honouring sites of rupture, writes Mike Fitzpatrick


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Enlightenment

Enlightenment

Stephen Brandes always subverts earnestness with the sardonic, mordant and mischievous wit that permeates all of his work, writes Francis Halsall


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A painter’s painter

A painter’s painter


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Devine Delights

Devine Delights

Of Harry Clarke’s four windows for Dowanhill’s chapel, The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin is arguably the finest in terms of composition and ambition and, fittingly, the window remains in Scotland – the only one to do so, writes David Caron


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The Master’s Hand

The Master’s Hand

Rembrandt’s works on paper reveal the innovative artist as an unrivalled storyteller with an incredible eye for detail, writes An Van Camp


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Carousel

Carousel

Elizabeth Taggart tells Brian McAvera that the seaside village of Donaghadee in which she grew up holds the key to what drives her as a painter


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Into the Ether

Into the Ether

An exploration of the nature of line and time are fundamental to Brian Fay’s practice, writes Margarita Cappock


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Points of departure

Points of departure

Working between the north Mayo coast and his Dublin studio, the landscape in Eddie Kennedy’s paintings is invariably a stepping stone to something else rather than an end in itself, writes Aidan Dunne


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Surface Tension

Surface Tension

Employing film, collage and sculpture, Mary-Ruth Walsh considers the ways in which the complex psychological investment in skin is mirrored in the built environment, writes Sarah Kelleher


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Piercing tradition

Piercing tradition

Susan Connolly’s work can be classified within the broad category of ‘expanded painting’, which rejects the traditional painting format of the easel and frame, writes Riann Coulter


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Magical appeal

Magical appeal

Unlike most Irish artists, colour is the very essence of Daniel O’Neill’s work and his time to re-enter the spotlight is overdue, writes Brian Fallon


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In the swim

In the swim

Brian Fallon takes a renewed look at the work of Veronica Bolay, whose West of Ireland landscapes are among her strongest work


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Travelling Irishness

Travelling Irishness

Catherine Manthorne recounts the life and work of the Irish American landscape artist Eliza Pratt Greatorex


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Colleen bawn

Colleen bawn

Julian Campbell regards the work of Thomas Alfred Jones, whose watercolours of women deserve renewed attention


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In her hands

In her hands

Paula Murphy celebrates the work of Imogen Stuart over the course of her six-decade career


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Colour scale

Colour scale

Ahead of her touring exhibition commencing at the Highlanes Gallery, Diana Copperwhite talks with Aidan Dunne


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Urban landscapes

Urban landscapes

Louise Wallace looks at the work of Catherine McWilliams, whose survey exhibition is showing at the FE McWilliam Gallery


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What lurks beneath

What lurks beneath

Margarita Cappock examines how Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s work with computer-generated imagery and collage invokes a feeling of dislocation in the viewer


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Into the mystic

Into the mystic

Richard Proffitt tells John P O’Sullivan how a visit to a Peter Blake exhibition as a teenager encouraged him on his career path


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Rare Flower

Rare Flower

Patricia Butler traces the artistic path and output of one of Ireland’s great botanical artists, Susan Sex


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Man on a mission

Man on a mission

John P O’Sullivan traces the colourful career of artist John Kelly


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Reflections on space

Reflections on space

Corban Walker tells Brian McAvera of the inherent conundrum in his practice. ‘How do you use a transparent material or a transparent form to articulate volume?’


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By Waterside

By Waterside

Mark Ewart finds that the weight of art history and the lineage of landscape painting is never far away in Bridget Flannery’s work


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Public Wonder

Public Wonder

Kiera O’Toole tells Susan Campbell that in her practice she is concerned with how humans experience the world in non-cognitive ways of being


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Artistic Links

Artistic Links

Alastair MacLennan recalls working with artist Declan Byrne, whose mid-career retrospective was recently mounted at Kilfane Glebe House in County Kilkenny


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Windfalls of Light

Windfalls of Light

Combining pathos and humour is a central strategy in Peter Young’s stained-glass work, writes Joseph McBrinn


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No filter

No filter

Stephanie McBride discovers that, like Banksy and French music duo Daft Punk, threadstories is using her own masked identity and anonymity as a riff on celebrity status, or an inversion of it


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In search of Arcadia

In search of Arcadia

‘I just can’t cut myself off from the real world, what’s happening around me – there is that underlying anxiety,’ sculptor Tom Fitzgerald tells Mike Fitzpatrick


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Wandering tales

Wandering tales

Peter Burns’ draws on his sculptural training while using a palette that encompasses the spectrum, writes Jim Smyth


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Myth and material

Myth and material

Isabella Evangelisti visits the studio of sculptor Sallyanne Morgan and finds that there is potential for much larger, more expansive work


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A versatile original

A versatile original

Caroline Scally refuses to be categorised and was generally recognised for what she was, a natural-born talent who followed her own track, writes Brian Fallon


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Portraits of an activist

Portraits of an activist

Margarita Cappock and Hannah Baker review works from the oeuvre of artist Sarah Cecilia Harrison


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Icons of freedom

Icons of freedom

Felix M Larkin recalls the work of John Fergus O’Hea, the principal artist of the Weekly Freeman cartoons in the 1880s in Ireland


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Tidal attraction

Tidal attraction

Marking the centenary of his birth, Brian Fallon considers the work of artist Richard Kingston


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Rare bird

Rare bird

John P O’Sullivan visits artist Eddie Mooney at his Dublin home and studio


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Off the Wall

Off the Wall

Catherine Marshall finds beauty, fun and a new political consciousness in Marie Hanlon’s latest work


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This dream and you

This dream and you

Donal Maguire reflects on Aches’ award-winning portrait, painted in the artist’s distinctive graffiti style, which references subtractive colour-mixing theory


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Heaven and earth

Heaven and earth

Paddy Graham is warily self-critical as an artist, a quality that, while not unusual, is by no means universal, writes Aidan Dunne


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Linear Visions

Linear Visions

Catherine Bowe finds that while Marie Holohan’s paintings have a maze-like structure, her work remains free and unforced


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Belfast Views

Belfast Views

Highly acclaimed for his portraiture work, Colin Davidson’s images are particularly evocative when they depict the familiar features of Belfast, writes Riann Coulter


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O’Malley at Venice

O’Malley at Venice

Peter Murray visits the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, where artist Niamh O’Malley is on show


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Comic acts

Comic acts

Michael Connerty traces Jack B Yeats’ output of comics and comic-strip art


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Internet state of mind

Internet state of mind

Elaine Hoey tells Rachel Thomas that light and colour inhabit a space in a way that is very ethereal, but has a volume, not unlike virtual reality


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No boundaries

No boundaries

Brenda Aherne and Helen Delany, AKA electronic Sheep, are making waves in the international arena, as Hilary O’Kelly recounts


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London calling

London calling

Mike Fitzpatrick suggests that Anne Ryan’s new works function as sculpture, yet are figurative paintings in the round


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Enigmatic forms

Enigmatic forms

John Hutchinson considers that Aleana Egan’s art is perhaps best read as a set of related parts, which together trace her experience of both outer and inner worlds


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Cycles

Cycles

Cristín Leach visits Joanna Hopkins’ recent exhibition, which presents as a deeply personal engagement with communal, multigenerational wisdom


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Leaning towards landscape

Leaning towards landscape

Anne Hodge examines a series of drawings of scenes in Dublin and Wicklow, made by the writer and artist Edward Lear in 1835


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Tipperary Rembrandt

Tipperary Rembrandt

Philip McEvansoneya follows the trail of a painting of Rembrandt’s wife, Saskia, from the shadow of the Galtee Mountains through Hermann Göring’s art collection, to Saskia’s hometown in the Netherlands


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About time

About time

Ahead of her exhibitions in Ireland and Italy, Grace Weir speaks with Rachel Thomas


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Gale country

Gale country

John P O’Sullivan visits painter Martin Gale at his home and studio in County Kildare


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On the edge

On the edge

Pascal Ungerer’s peripheral landscapes evoke a sense of silence and isolation , writes Margarita Cappock


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Fragile armour

Fragile armour

Aoife Ruane looks at artist Niamh McGuinne’s work, on show at the Highlanes Gallery

 


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Puck and wren

Puck and wren

Stephanie McBride finds that Andrew Nuding’s photobook Hunt the Wren mixes tradition and modernity, revitalising ways of belonging in place and history


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Nature and nurture

Nature and nurture

Shevaun Doherty tells John P O’Sullivan that a trip to Kew Gardens in London with her aunt decided her vocation


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Corrigan’s kingdom

Corrigan’s kingdom

Lorna Corrigan’s paintings are simultaneously riotous, explosive and exuberant, writes Catherine Marshall


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Furrows of steel

Furrows of steel

Joe Butler’s career shows a total dedication to his pursuit of open, direct metal sculpture, writes John Behan


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On the turf

On the turf

John P O’Sullivan visits renowned horse painter Peter Curling at his home and studio in Tipperary


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Mystic space

Mystic space

I’m always looking for an elemental quality,‚’ artist David Smith tells Aidan Dunne


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Moving on

Moving on

John P O’Sullivan finds that a constant feature in David Eager Maher’s work is his inclusion of art-history references


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Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis

Olivia Musgrave’s interest in the Classics greatly informs her sculptures, writes Peter Murray

 


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Northern star

Northern star

Eileen Black recounts the life and work of Post-Impressionist painter, Georgina Moutray Kyle

 


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Imaging Connemara

Imaging Connemara

Artist Charles Lamb’s paintings conveyed a romantic ideal of the new Ireland, writes Marie Bourke

 

 


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Emblems of nationhood

Emblems of nationhood

John P o’Sullivan previews Hughie o’Donoghue’s latest suite of paintings of diverse historic characters spanning 1,500 years of history


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Re-imagining landscape

Re-imagining landscape

Ahead of her show at the Custom House Gallery in Westport, Brian Fallon explores the work of Ann Quinn


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Towards eternity

Towards eternity

Aidan Dunne examines the richly textural grid-based paintings of Denis Farrell, finding work of great temporal depth


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Sculpted icons

Sculpted icons

Anna Campbell has maintained a remarkable consistency in terms of both technical skill and artistic vision, writes Riann Coulter


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Drawn to life

Drawn to life

Though best known for his landscapes and portraits, Blaise Smith has been painting still lifes for more than two decades and, writes Aidan Dunne, they are among his most personal and speculative works


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Porous boundaries

Porous boundaries

John Rainey tells Michael Waldron that he designs environments for his work to exist in, thereby reversing the dynamic so that we exist within their world for a period of time


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Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue

Mike Fitzharris tells Brian McAvera of his attraction to colour captured in the brilliance of an Irish summer or Spain’s Andalucía


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Gilded Planes

Gilded Planes

Nature is an abiding source for Maighread Tobin and her new series of paintings reflect her engagement with natural sculptural forms, writes Niamh NicGhabhann


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Unfolding peril

Unfolding peril

Marcel Vidal finds that a thread of instability runs through Freida Breen’s sculptural practice


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Multiplicity

Multiplicity

Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith meets painter and sculptor Marcel Vidal

 


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Orchestral flair

Orchestral flair

In a time when ‘visual culture‚’ can mean ‘words‚’, Jonathan Hunter continues to find rich possibilities in an insistently visual painterly language, writes William Gallagher


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Burgundy light

Burgundy light

Cristín Leach looks at Maeve McCarthy’s new paintings as she prepares for her forthcoming exhibition at the Molesworth Gallery


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Jettisoning memories

Jettisoning memories

150 years since the birth of Jack B Yeats, Hilary Pyle considers the concept of memory embedded in his work

 


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Gentle études

Gentle études

Mary Stratton Ryan looks at the life of Mary Kate Benson, a tentative figure in the Irish art pantheon, on the centenary of her death

 


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Dynamic mass

Dynamic mass

John Noel Smith’s journey continues with an enlivening sense of momentum, writes Margarita Cappock

 


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Shaping space

Shaping space

Barbara Warren’s work, rather than startling or imposing on the eye, invites the spectator to come in, writes Hilary Pyle

 


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Tidal force

Tidal force

The sea’s characteristics, particularly its unpredictability and perpetual rhythm, continuously inspire, Alva Gallagher tells Carissa Farrell


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Eva Rothschild at the Venice Biennale

Eva Rothschild at the Venice Biennale

Interview with Brian McAvera


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Homage to Eileen Gray

Homage to Eileen Gray

Sculptor Eilis O’Connell uses digital technology to show her work in an experimental and groundbreaking way, writes Jennifer Gof


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Modelled contours

Modelled contours

Hilary Pyle recalls the artist Hilda Roberts, two-time winner of the RDS Taylor Art Award, whose talents were apparent from an early age


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Then and now

Then and now

‘There’s a huge sensuous pleasure in making a colour’ Fergus Martin tells Brian McAvera as an exhibition of his work opens at IMMA


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Edwin Hayes (1819-1904)

Edwin Hayes (1819-1904)

Peter Murray charts the work of Irish marine artist, Edwin Hayes, whose bicentenary falls this year


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Portrait of a patron

Portrait of a patron

Frank McGuinness reflects on the visual clues within Andrew Pike’s triptych portrait of art collector John McBratney


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Celtic myths in the 21st Century

Celtic myths in the 21st Century


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The inaccesible land

The inaccesible land


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What’s with the Apocalypse?

What’s with the Apocalypse?


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From glimpse to panorama

From glimpse to panorama


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Old masters and new romantics

Old masters and new romantics


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Good Morning Mr Turner

Good Morning Mr Turner


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The Chaos of Creation

The Chaos of Creation


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Conflicting Histories

Conflicting Histories


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Oben’s Scenic Tour

Oben’s Scenic Tour


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Through the Looking Glass

Through the Looking Glass


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Harmonious Variations

Harmonious Variations


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Regarding Patrick Hennessy

Regarding Patrick Hennessy


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Alfred Elmore behind the scenes

Alfred Elmore behind the scenes


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Living proof ‘I guess I’m a little tired of being typecast’

Living proof ‘I guess I’m a little tired of being typecast’

Painter and master printmaker Stephen Lawlor talks to Brian McAvera about the nuance of approach required for each medium, ahead of his solo show at Oliver Sears Gallery this winter


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Civic disturbance

Civic disturbance

Mic Moroney navigates Stephen Brandes’ satirical visual diary featuring in ‘Phoenix Rising’ at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane


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The Master of Bilbao

The Master of Bilbao


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Silhouettes and keepsakes

Silhouettes and keepsakes


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A vision of tragedy

A vision of tragedy


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LIVING LARGE AT CHATSWORTH

LIVING LARGE AT CHATSWORTH


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Painting as experience

Painting as experience


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New models of collaboration

New models of collaboration


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Ich bin ein Berliner

Ich bin ein Berliner


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Comrades and friends

Comrades and friends


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Enlightenment and Legacy

Enlightenment and Legacy


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The god of small things

The god of small things


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From ally to outsider

From ally to outsider


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Victorian enchantment

Victorian enchantment


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Alter-egos and anti-heroes

Alter-egos and anti-heroes


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Henry Allan’s Dutch interior

Henry Allan’s Dutch interior


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Cleary & Connolly sans frontières

Cleary & Connolly sans frontières


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Cheating the fell destroyer

Cheating the fell destroyer


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Separating Mahony and Mahoney

Separating Mahony and Mahoney


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Torch-bearers and trailblazers

Torch-bearers and trailblazers


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Frank O’Meara’s Muse

Frank O’Meara’s Muse


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The miniature art of Frederick Buck

The miniature art of Frederick Buck


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√ìmos do Máire Mhaith

√ìmos do Máire Mhaith


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Bourke’s dramatis personae

Bourke’s dramatis personae


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A fresh look at Charles Jervas

A fresh look at Charles Jervas


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A swan song for Edward Sheil

A swan song for Edward Sheil


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Children of the Revolution

Children of the Revolution


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Defender of the Faith

Defender of the Faith


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Unearthing the Past

Unearthing the Past


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Homilies

Homilies

Mike Fitzpatrick reflects on the sombre, otherworldly quality of Michael Canning’s work

 


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In search of translucency

In search of translucency

Julian Campbell finds that sculptor Peter McTigue’s traditional methods belie a resolutely Modernist vision.


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Myth maker

Myth maker

Philip McEvansoneya explores the work of John Currie, an artist not well known in Ireland, even though he visited the country, painted Irish subjects and exhibited in Dublin

 


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Blighted culture

Blighted culture

Seán Kissane explores the work of Kevin Mooney, in which complex webs of history and cultural references abound


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Wandering star

Wandering star

Hilary Pyle looks at the life and work of artist Estella Solomons, whose exhibition is on view at the National Gallery of Ireland

 


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Scaling up

Scaling up

Aidan Dunne talks to painter Martin Mooney about his career and the development of his work

 


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Prince of tides

Prince of tides

John P O’Sullivan investigates painterly values and pitfalls with Donald Teskey, ahead of his mid-career survey at the RHA

 


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