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
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
Tricia Cusack considers past portraits of women readers that position them as independent thinkers and intellectuals
Kenneth McConkey considers works by John Lavery, painted during the artist’s frequent sojourns at home and abroad
John P O’Sullivan visits painter Martin Gale at his home and studio in County Kildare
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
Aidan Dunne visits the survey exhibition of painter Richard Gorman at the Hugh Lane Gallery
Angela Griffith appraises Paul MacCormaic’s painting of Lucky Khambule, this year’s winner of the Ireland–U.S. Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award