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
Brian Fallon travels to Roscommon where he enjoys the landscapes of artist Malachy Costello
Dickon Hall considers the work of Northern Irish artist Arthur Armstrong on the centenary of his birth
Philip McEvansoneya traces Dublin-born Stanhope Alexander Forbes’ early years in Ireland
Seamus O’Brien outlines the spring flowers of Irish native trees, detailing their locations in Ireland
Logan Sisley salutes an indomitable and towering figure in Irish art, Sarah Purser
Sonia Shiel turns painting on its head, writes Catherine Marshall, and her exhibition invites reflective pauses, moments to question what you have just seen
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
Gráinne Coughlan examines the work of Bere Island artist Mary K Sullivan
John P O’Sullivan meets with John Kindness ahead of his exhibition ‘Odyssey’, at the Royal Hibernian Academy
Aidan Dunne considers the work of four artists, whose paintings are on view in the atmospheric space of Rathfarnham Castle
Julian Campbell remembers the painter William Osborne, in the bicentenary of his birth
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’
Ahead of Gordon Hogan’s first exhibition in Ireland, Mike Fitzpatrick visits the artist at his home in Tipperary
Cristín Leach talks with Cian McLoughlin, whose ongoing interest in the painting of crowds is ‘accidentally topical’
A drawing of the Virgin attributed to Maud Gonne leaves Christian Dupont wondering
‘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
Cristín Leach visits Joanna Hopkins’ recent exhibition, which presents as a deeply personal engagement with communal, multigenerational wisdom
Anne Hodge examines a series of drawings of scenes in Dublin and Wicklow, made by the writer and artist Edward Lear in 1835
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
Ahead of her exhibitions in Ireland and Italy, Grace Weir speaks with Rachel Thomas
John P O’Sullivan visits painter Martin Gale at his home and studio in County Kildare
Pascal Ungerer’s peripheral landscapes evoke a sense of silence and isolation , writes Margarita Cappock
Aoife Ruane looks at artist Niamh McGuinne’s work, on show at the Highlanes Gallery
Stephanie McBride finds that Andrew Nuding’s photobook Hunt the Wren mixes tradition and modernity, revitalising ways of belonging in place and history
Shevaun Doherty tells John P O’Sullivan that a trip to Kew Gardens in London with her aunt decided her vocation
Lorna Corrigan’s paintings are simultaneously riotous, explosive and exuberant, writes Catherine Marshall
Hilary Pyle recalls the artist Hilda Roberts, two-time winner of the RDS Taylor Art Award, whose talents were apparent from an early age
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
Mic Moroney navigates Stephen Brandes’ satirical visual diary featuring in ‘Phoenix Rising’ at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
