The Summer 22 boasts a superb selection of articles to enjoy, from the artists On View across Ireland from June to the end of August, as well as many informed and beautifully illustrated articles, featuring Patrick Graham, Niamh O’Malley at Venice, interview with Marie Hanlon, Colin Davidson, Mary Furlong, Eddie, Mooney, the Ireland-U.S. Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture award winner Aches, Knowth and much more.
Unravelling the sequence of carving on the stones has been challenging but has been helped by the fact that there are so many examples to study, writes Elizabeth Shee Twohig
Angela Forte is an artist who is best known for her distinctive use of geometric form and colour. Her influences include Henri Matisse and Harry Clarke, and her original hand-woven tapestries are simultaneously arresting and meditative. Forte took up tapestry at aged sixteen, studied weaving in NCAD and experienced early success. In the years between 1980 and 1995 she completed many large tapestry commissions for high-profile bodies such as Bank of Ireland, IBM and the Office of Public Works. Other commitments took Forte away from her art until, in 2017, she made a strong return with a solo exhibition in Wexford’s Blue Egg Gallery.
Peter Murray visits the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, where artist Niamh O’Malley is on show
Highly acclaimed for his portraiture work, Colin Davidson’s images are particularly evocative when they depict the familiar features of Belfast, writes Riann Coulter
Paddy Graham is warily self-critical as an artist, a quality that, while not unusual, is by no means universal, writes Aidan Dunne
Catherine Marshall finds beauty, fun and a new political consciousness in Marie Hanlon’s latest work
John P O’Sullivan visits artist Eddie Mooney at his Dublin home and studio
Susan Curley Meyer explores a favourite Dublin ‘type’, the flower seller, and her representations in many forms of visual culture
Felix M Larkin recalls the work of John Fergus O’Hea, the principal artist of the Weekly Freeman cartoons in the 1880s in Ireland
