Irish Arts Review, Winter 2008
Riann Coulter finds a personal compendium collated with daring and vigour, in Basil Blackshaw’s work
A good print is the sum of an artist’s stamina and vision, writes NIALL NAESSENS ahead of the Graphic Studio’s print show at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin in January 2009
Michael John Gorman previews new work from scientist-turned-artist Bea McMahon, at the Green on Red Gallery this winter
Desperate Dan and William Hogarth are unruly muses to a new installation by John Kindness, currently on view at the Foundling Museum, London, writes Nicola Gordon Bowe
Dickon Hall recalls the career of fiercely-independent artist Nevill Johnson, the subject of a major retrospective at the Ava Gallery, Co Down
John Mulcahy appraises the redevelopment of the Royal Hibernian Academy on the reopening of the gallery for the 178th Annual Exhibition
Photography advances centre stage at this year’s 178th Annual RHA Exhibition, with the inaugural Bank of Scotland (Ireland)/Irish Arts Review Portrait Prize awarded to Patrick Donald, writes Stephanie McBride
‘We’d been brought up with the notion that society progressed, from the Mayans and the Incas up to us, but we are still as superstitious, we still create false gods and we are still suspicious of people who are different from us,’ Jack Pakenham tells Brian McAvera ahead of his exhibition in Dublin
Brian King possesses an acute sense of space, observes Gerry Walker on the recent unveiling of his memorial in Merrion Square Park, Dublin
paul Caffrey gives a thumbnail sketch of 18th-century society drawn from the worlds of art, academia and the stage, as seen in the Comerford Collection
Julian Campbell examines the oeuvre of Katherine MacCausland who found comradeship and artistic fulfilment in France
Hector McDonnell investigates the locations and sporting personalities associated with Glenarm Castle’s collection of 18th-century racehorse paintings.
Peter Harbison presents some little-known gems by George Victor Du Noyer, from the library of the Royal Irish Academy.
On the occasion of the Irish Georgian Society’s 50th anniversary, John Muclahy looks at the persuasive triumvirate who helped develop a new appreciation for Ireland’s Georgian heritage, as documented in a recently published book
Audrey Whitty discusses highlights from the National Museum’s principal long-term exhibition, beginning this winter, which focuses on the rare Asian objects d’art donated by philanthropist Albert Bender in the early 1930s.
The architectural language of Wexford’s new Opera House is confident and unmistakably contemporary, while the quirky constraints of the site continue to charm and surprise, writes James Howley
Ann Mulrooney profiles the practice of Nuala O’Donovan, winner of the inaugural Crafts Council of Ireland/Irish Arts Review Emerging Makers Award
Sphere within Sphere, newly gleaming and back on the podium of the Berkeley Library, is discussed by Catherine Giltrap, Curator of the Trinity College Art Collections
