We mourn the passing of Nikki Gordon Bowe, a long-time contributor to the Irish Arts Review whose seminal publication on the Life & Work of Harry Clarke, first published by Irish Academic Press in 1989, re-established the reputation of this exceptional Irish artist of the early 20th century.
We republish here from the IAR Archive, ‘A Regal Blaze: Harry Clarke’s Depiction of Synge’s Queens’ by Nicola Gordon Bowe (Irish Arts Review, Summer 2006).
‘Poster Boys’ at the National Print Museum in Dublin’s Beggars Bush is an exhibition of fifty-six original Abbey Theatre posters from the 1970s and 1980s.
Growing up in Derry, Locky Morris lived under the kind of hyper-surveillance that has gradually become the norm worldwide.
There were 2,700 submissions to this year’s Royal Ulster Academy (RUA) exhibition, from which 353 were selected.