Heneghan peng create a splash
Heneghan peng has won yet another commission underscoring their ability to respond to a variety of terrains and their empathy with other cultures. Read More
Comment Winter 2015
Little Stories Little Prints
Fifty Printmakers from eight Printmaking Studios around Ireland have accepted an invitation to participate in the Leinster Printmaking Studio’s 1916 Commemorative Visual Arts Project, which aims to create awareness of little known events or incidents during or around the time of the Easter Rising in 1916. Read More
16 x 16: Next Generation Bursary Recipients
The 16 x 16: Next Generation bursaries were recently announced and include two exciting artists that were previously featured in IAR: Mollie Anna King and Ramon Kassam. Read More
Portrait of John Rocha to join the National Portrait Collection
Geraldine O’Neill’s engaging portrait of designer John Rocha is the latest in a series of commissioned portraits of public figures to enter the National Portrait Collection. Read More
Decompositions by Sean Molloy
In his latest body of work Sean Molloy takes on the Baroque: a time when artists didn’t do things by halves. Read More
Education Agenda
‘The scenario of establishing collegiate clusters based on economics and geography to the detriment of pedagogy has all the attributes of a shiver looking for a spine,’ writes Gerry Walker in Education Agenda in the Winter edition of the Irish Arts Review. Read More
David Rooney’s 1916 portraits
The Royal Irish Academy’s 1916 Portraits and Lives is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of superb, new portrait drawings by David Rooney of each of the forty men and women ‘whose careers were deeply involved with the Easter Rising of 1916’. Read More
Beit Appeal Update: Thank you!
Thank you to all who signed the IAR Appeal to Save the Beit Paintings! Three of the paintings due for auction last July have been bought privately by donors and will be transferred to the National Gallery in Dublin for public display. Read More
Vera Klute: Hennessy Portrait Prize 2015
Congratulations to Vera Klute, winner of the Hennessy Portrait Prize 2015. We republish here a profile on Vera Klute from the Autumn 2014 edition of the Irish Arts Review on the unveiling of her portrait of Sister Stan. Read More