A new series of paintings from Paddy McCann at the Dock, Co Leitrim are intense meditations on loss and the passage of time, writes Amanda Croft.
Nicola Gordon Bowe introduces the work of Patrick Conyngham whose latest series of paintings is currently on view at Gilford Castle, Co Down.
Siobhán Hapaska’s provocative and witty sculpture installations question notions of certainty, writes Liam Kelly ahead of her exhibition at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.
The second stream in the Futures series offers a new generation of emerging artists the opportunity to exploit the galleries of the RHA, writes Ruth Carroll.
“I look at landscape and wonder what lives in it,” landscapist and committed environmentalist Jim Manley tells Brian McAvera ahead of his exhibition at the Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast
Irish Arts Review asked six critics to profile the emerging talents of these exceptional BA graduates from colleges in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Janet Mullarney’s sculptures perform as metaphors, not portraits, writes Cliodhna Shaffrey
Old, familiar controversies and arguments are likely to be reopened on foot of IMMA’s epochal end-of-year exhibition, writes Brian Fallon.
Lelia Doolan pays tribute to an adopted son of the West; film-maker, photographer and writer Bob Quinn who recently gifted his Conamara photographic archive to NUI, Galway.
Gabriel Metsu, who died in 1667 at the young age of 37, has had his status re-evaluated a number of times in the intervening centuries; Adriaan Waiboer provides an expert insight into the subject of the National Gallery of Ireland’s tribute exhibition.
Lawrence William White evaluates the career of Irish-born artist Thomas Hovenden whose humanitarian values found resonance in post-civil war America.
As students at the RHA School will shortly access 21st-century teaching aids, their Professor of Anatomy Clive Lee looks at the changing nature of knowledge translation between artists and anatomists.
‘Bronze into Gold’ at Waterford Museum of Treasures pays tribute to dedicated antiquarian Redmond Anthony and broadens our understanding of the Bronze Age communities in Waterford and the south-east region, writes Mary Cahill.
Elizabeth Morgan explains the principles followed in restoring the set-piece of the 17th-century gardens of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham within their architectural setting.
Richard Hurley views the newly opened Glasnevin National Heritage Visitors Centre which operates as a gateway to Dublin’s historic cemetery.
Ruth Thorpe looks at the influences that shaped Lady Louisa Conolly’s redesign of the Long Gallery at Castletown and her acquisition of its famous 18th-century Venetian chandeliers.
Audrey Whitty discusses her selection of experimental designer-makers for the biennial symposium in Bornholm, Denmark.
Muriel McCarthy selects two related engravings from the current medical exhibition at Marsh’s Library, Dublin.
