One hears rather less about Culture Ireland (CI) these days since it was gobbled back into the Department of the Arts and Eugene Downes, its gifted director, moved on to become Director of the Kilkenny Arts Festival. Read More
What a stroke of luck for Darren Sutton whose evocative impression of the Sea God, Manannán Mac Lir, was wrenched from its perch near Limavaddy, overlooking Lough Foyle just after Christmas. Read More
One of the features of the Irish art market in 2014 was the absence from the sales of any notable painting by Jack Yeats. The highest price achieved for a Yeats in 2014 was the €155,000 paid for his Sleep Beside Falling Water at Adam’s in December. Read More
Congratulations are certainly due to Conor Harrington, the erstwhile street artist, whose Dance with the Devil, a large oil and spray paint on linen work was sold at Bonhams for €105,127 (including premium) on 28 January. That price catapults Harrington to the very top mark in sales at auction by living Irish artists. Not bad going for the thirty-five year-old Corkman who learnt his trade at LCAD. Read More
