Book Review: 16

Making their mark

Irish painter-etchers looked abroad for their inspiration, direction and markets from the 1880s, writes Angela Griffith and Anne Hodge

Harry Clarke and artistic visions of the new Irish State

Natural Selection

The artist’s studio

Inferno

Drawn to the page

Rhythmic forms: The constructions of Tony O’Malley

Smith’s Endgame

Blaise Smith’s intention for his new suite of paintings on view at the Molesworth Gallery in Dublin, is to provide a place ‘where the eye can rest’, he tells Angela Griffith

Old Masters Made New

Angela Griffith previews a new suite of paintings from Geraldine O’Neill, recent winner of the lreland-U.S. Council/Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award

Compositions in space

Angela Griffith reflects on the multifaceted practice of Alex Pentek, whose work ranges from the solidity of public art to the floating paper sculpture currently on view at the RhA