Ian Cumberland’s portrait, the winner of the Ireland-US Council/Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award at the 182nd RHA Annual Exhibition, is not a ‘pretty’ picture, writes Jane Humphries.
Within a deliberately restricted theme, Mary Lohan offers a new confrontation with the sublime, writes Catherine Marshall ahead of the artist’s exhibition at the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, in June.
From a rural setting in County Antrim, Basil Blackshaw has contributed a new chapter to the story of Irish art, writes Brian Fallon as the retrospective at the F E McWilliam Gallery marking Blackshaw’s 80th birthday continues.
Can minimalist-abstract art have content? Ciarán Lennon addresses the question posed by Brian McAvera
Recently appointed Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, Sean Rainbird, reinvented the exhibition programme at the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart; Nicola Gordon Bowe asks him about his plans for the State Collection while the NGI is undergoing refurbishment.
In continuing our series on Irish artists abroad, Geert Lernout examines the career of Dubliner Pat Harris, who like Walter Osborne and Roderic O’Conor travelled to Antwerp’s Royal Academy to study, unlike them he stayed on to become its Professor of Painting.
Patrick T Murphy traces the career path of sculptor Eilís O’Connell who was chosen as the winner of a limited competition to design a new sculpture for TCD
Stephanie McBride examines the startling imagery of Richard Mosse who has made infrared film his signature medium
Catherine Morris has constructed a striking multi-layered account of prolific dramatist and political activist Alice Milligan writes Hilary Pyle
Audrey Whitty examines some rarities from a connoisseur’s collection of Irish glass recently acquired by the National Museum of Ireland
Hilary Morley previews ‘Bricks in the Rain’, an exhibition of contemporary art forms inspired by China to be shown at Farmleigh Gallery this August
Peter Murray selects a landscape by John Luke, a recent donation to the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
