Volume 36. No. 2

Summer 2019


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Summer 2019

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The birth of Modernism 1920-60

The birth of Modernism 1920-60



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Girl in a Red Room

Girl in a Red Room

Gareth Reid’s portrait is an experiment in colour, writes Angela Griffith of this year’s recipient of the Ireland–U.S. Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award


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Visual Keeper

Visual Keeper

Acclaimed West of Ireland artist Pádraic Reaney has made Irish art and its ‘ancientness’ traditional again, but in a truly radical way, writes Gerald Dawe


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Re-imagining landscape

Re-imagining landscape

Ahead of her show at the Custom House Gallery in Westport, Brian Fallon explores the work of Ann Quinn


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Vibrant Waves

Vibrant Waves

Chekhov, Vonnegut, Murakami and Swift inspire the work of Natalia Black and prompt her imagination, writes Margarita Cappock


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A Sense of Place

A Sense of Place

Sorca O’Farrell’s work conveys a rich and atmospheric sense of place, writes James Hanley ahead of her exhibition at the Easter Snow Gallery in Dublin


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A State of Flux

A State of Flux

Grateful to have art as a release, Paul Doran’s work is infused with positivity, writes Susan Campbell ahead of his first solo show in Dublin this month


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Through the Looking Glass

Through the Looking Glass

For young girls, especially, learning how to control their appearance can feel like a survival tactic, photographer Eva O’Leary tells Richard Mosse


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Eva Rothschild at the Venice Biennale

Eva Rothschild at the Venice Biennale

Interview with Brian McAvera


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21st-century resource

21st-century resource

The Glucksman Library at the University of Limerick is now one of the most digitally advanced libraries in the world, writes Judith Hill

 


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Chronicler of the city

Chronicler of the city

Flora Mitchell was a passionate recorder of vanishing city architecture, writes Hilary Pyle


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An Irishman in Italy

An Irishman in Italy

Solomon Delane made his name in Rome, where ‘milords’ from Britain and Ireland, making the Grand Tour, would acquire works of art and antique, writes Peter Murray


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Hoare’s Collection

Hoare’s Collection

Peter Harbison unearths the works of amateur artist and archaeologist Richard Colt Hoare during his summer in Ireland in 1806


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Four Horsemen

Four Horsemen

David Caron reveals Murphy Devitt Studios’ The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse windows in Newbridge College Chapel, Co Kildare


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An avant-garde

An avant-garde

One gets the sense that Ralph Cusack was always looking for the next project in which to throw himself, writes Adam Pearson


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Design Portfolio

Design Portfolio


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Mary Nagle

Mary Nagle

“I am drawn to and explore the possibilities of materials that display a richness of visual quality, sometimes marked by use and time, and carrying the patina of their history”


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Education

Education

Gerry Walker sees Leaving Certificate Art as a triumph of system over substance


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The Book of Durrow

The Book of Durrow


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Curator’s Choice

Curator’s Choice

Annie Fletcher selects the film work, How to Make a Refugee, by Phil Collins from the IMMA Collection


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