Brian Fallon, the long-time art critic of The Irish Times, has just been awarded the RHA Gold Medal for his outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland. Here he puts his head on the block by naming his favourite few artists in Ireland from his own generation
Brian Fallon recalls the eventful life and career of Dairine Vanston, a talented painter for whom commercial success remained sadly elusive
Brian Crowley discusses Iosagán, a painting by Beatrice Elvery designed to instil nobility in young minds
Imogen Stuart’s stone sculpture in honour of St Columbanus, is an unexpected, yet apt symbol of European solidarity, writes Brian Fallon
Visionary or Magic Realist? Brian Fallon evaluates the art of Patrick Hennessy
Brian Fallon examines the career of Seán Keating whose series documenting the installation of electricity in Ireland is on view at the RHA until mid December.
Old, familiar controversies and arguments are likely to be reopened on foot of IMMA’s epochal end-of-year exhibition, writes Brian Fallon.
A painting by Patrick Collins is immediately recognisable, modernist in sensibility and wholly original, writes Brian Fallon
Breon O’Casey has long been admired as a weaver and jeweller, but recently his painting and sculpture have taken precedence with renewed vigour and scale, writes Brian Fallon
Brian Fallin sees traces of Constable and Turner in the Donegal landscapes of Melita Denara
Brian Fallon examines the career of Melanie le Brocquy, whose practice, while intimate in scale, eloquently captures the subtle dynamics of gesture and pose
Brian Fallon traces painterly antecedents in the work of that most European of artists, Stephen McKenna, ahead
of his thematic exhibition at Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane
Brian Fallont races the cosmopolitan influences at work in the painterly language of Makiko Nakamura
Michael Kane has not only forged a style, he has helped substantially to forge the style of others, writes Brian Fallon ahead of the Hugh Lane Gallery’s survey exhibition in October
On the centenary of the artist’s birth, Brian Fallon revisits some personal recollections of George Campbell’s Spanish period
Patrick Scott has certainly established his own particular niche, writes Brian Fallon in his assessment of a uniquely elegant figure in Irish art
Mary Swanzy is a major figure in Irish art, but also a complex, isolated one with whom we have yet to come to terms, writes Brian Fallon, as IMMA launches an exhibition of her work as part of the Modern Masters series
Brian Fallon recalls his first impression on meeting Mary Swanzy and her Gauguin moment conceived during a visit to Samoa
From a rural setting in County Antrim, Basil Blackshaw has contributed a new chapter to the story of Irish art, writes Brian Fallon as the retrospective at the F E McWilliam Gallery marking Blackshaw’s 80th birthday continues.