Marianne O’Kane Boal previews Simon McWilliams’ exhibition at the Naughton Gallery, Belfast where architectonic forms rendered in intense colour project a Kafkaesque scenario
‘Too Early for Vacation’ is the theme of this year’s ev+a; the artists shown here offer a nexus of perspectives on this subject, explains Marianne O’Kane Boal.
Marianne O’Kane Boal surveys the public sculpture enlivening the Laganside in Belfast, with work that is both thematically resonant and aspirational in tone
Sarah Browne and Gareth Kennedy have created a series of culturally relevant projects for Ireland’s participation at the 53rd Venice Biennale, writes Marianne O’Kane Boal
Marianne O’Kane Boal welcomes a new body of work from the prolific Neil Shawcross at the Caldwell Gallery, Belfast this spring
Marianne O’Kane-Boal selects Still Life by Mary Ruth Walsh from Wexford County Council’s art collection
Marianne O’Kane Boal reports on the first cultural partnership between the Port of Cork and Belfast Harbour
Belfast’s new leviathan echoes the form of the ships once visible from the drawing offices where they were designed, writes Marianne O’Kane-Boal
Marianne O’Kane Boal hopes a touring retrospective on the work of Brian Ballard will convey the full trajectory of his practice from figuration to abstraction
Marianne O’Kane Boal views work by Emily Waszak, which examines entanglements of place, position, ancestry and family