Nicola Gordon Bowe pens a sketch of Joseph Campbell the influential poet of the Irish Revival
Robert Ballagh has long been recognised for his political engagement; BRIAN McAVERA asks him to enlarge on the artist’s position in
society ahead of his retrospective at the RHA in September
An attraction to the clear compositions of the early Renaissance and the tensions inherent in German Expressionism may seem incompatible, but, as Michael Kane explains to BRIAN McAVERA, both styles have had a direct influence on his work
Peter Murray remembers the talented artist, Robert Gregory, son of Lady Gregory of Coole Park, whose surviving works are testament to unfulfilled promise
Françoise Henry’s studies in early Irish art illuminated its role in the medieval art of Europe, writes Peter Harbison.
‘Putting a helicopter in the sky isn’t a political statement, it’s just that I saw more helicopters than seagulls’, Dermot Seymour tells Brian McAvera as his retrospective continues at the Irish College in Paris.
Seán Ó Mordha asks James O’Connor to reflect on the development of his practice since his move to Munich in 1977
A visit by Lady Caroline Lamb to Kilkenny and Lismore in 1812
Brought to Ireland to gain distance from Byron, Lady Caroline Lamb instead found inspiration for her novel’s central character based on the poet. Two hundred years later, Peter Murray recalls the historic visit
Can minimalist-abstract art have content? Ciarán Lennon addresses the question posed by Brian McAvera
“Paris gave me a sense of form in space and space inside a form,” sculptor-painter Deborah Brown tells Brian McAvera ahead of her exhibition at the Gordon Gallery, Derry, in November.
“My desire to change the way we see the world in order to remake it is central,” Maud Cotter tells Brian McAvera.
Nicola Gordon Bowe recalls the close friendship that was kindled in art school and forged in adulthood between William Orpen and Beatrice Elvery
More than a hundred years after his ancestors departed these shores, collector and philanthropist Brian P Burns is circling back, perhaps with an eye to adding to his outstanding collection of Irish art, writes John Mulcahy
A love of art and its history formed the basis of Anne Crookshank’s integrity, writes Edward McParland in this tribute to the indomitable art historian
With the recent passing of Ronald Tallon, Seán Ó Laoire reflects on the end of an era and remembers Michael Scott, founder and charismatic figurehead of Scott Tallon Walker