Silent space
New from the Spring 2022 edition. Dublin artist Francis Matthews manages to give the impression of reality without becoming enmeshed in itemising endless physical detail, writes Aidan Dunne Read More
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Scattered fractions
New from the Spring 2022 edition. Artist Frances Kelly didn’t aim for exact likenesses in her portraits of people or flowers, but rather for some inner, more abstract, significance, writes Hilary Pyle Read More
Emblems of nationhood
New from the Spring 2022 edition. John P O’Sullivan previews Hughie O’Donoghue’s latest suite of paintings of diverse historic characters spanning 1,500 years of history Read More
Northern star
New from the Winter 2021 edition. Eileen Black recounts the life and work of Post-Impressionist painter, Georgina Moutray Kyle Read More
Mystic space
New from the Winter 2021 edition. The art collection of the
I think I’m always looking for an elemental quality,’ artist David Smith tells Aidan Dunne Read More
Dynamic mass
New from the Autumn 2021 edition. John Noel Smith’s journey continues with an enlivening sense of momentum, writes Margarita Cappock Read More
Jettisoning memories
New from the Autumn 2021 edition. 150 years since the birth of Jack B Yeats, Hilary Pyle considers the concept of memory embedded in his work Read More
Painters of the West
New from the Summer 2021 edition. Julian Campbell outlines the expressive, emblematic ways in which artists have been drawn to the wild and rugged Atlantic landscape
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Towards eternity
New from the Summer 2021 edition. Aidan Dunne examines the richly textural grid-based paintings of Denis Farrell, finding work of great temporal depth