What separates us from our contemporaries Patrick Pye asserts, is that we believe that the work of art, a painting, is an artifice
Well-known artist Donald Teskey and rising star David King, both Award-winners at the annual RHA exhibition, discuss with Roisin Kennedy the continuing relevance of painting in an art world increasingly dominated by other media
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
Tim Hawkesworth has attained a fluency and surety in his painting that marks him as one of the most important painters of his generation, argues Patrick T Murphy
Frances Ruane applauds the role played by Fergus Ahern in the development of his community’s Civic Art Collectio n as the RHA hosts an exhibition curated from its holdings
Catherine Marshall visits the studio of Hennessy Craig prize-winner Mollie Douthit as she prepares for a solo exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2015
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.
In a new series of work for the RHA this winter Eithne Jordan has turned her attention toward home, writes Kevin Barry.
As students at the RHA School will shortly access 21st-century teaching aids, their Professor of Anatomy Clive Lee looks at the changing nature of knowledge translation between artists and anatomists.
The second stream in the Futures series offers a new generation of emerging artists the opportunity to exploit the galleries of the RHA, writes Ruth Carroll.
Róisín Kennedy examines Amelia Stein’s photographic portraits capturing the artists of the RHA
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
Ciarán Bennett previews ‘Returning’, an ambitious show of sixty new paintings at the Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, celebrating painterly skills, and aptly so, as all four artists are recent winners of the Hennessy Craig Scholarship
Gary Coyle’s winning portrait at the RHA Annual Exhibition is an accomplished work infused with ominous undertones, argues Donal Maguire
James Hanley pinpoints the hallmarks of a ‘painter’s painter as seen on Joe Dunne’s meditative suite of paintings on view at the RHA
The aesthetics of the digital age are invoked in Diana Copperwhite’s new paintings at the RHA, writes Yvonne Scott
In ·zxx at the RHA, abstract painter John Cronin presents his latest examination of painting in the age of the Internet and artificial intelligence, writes Luke Naessens
Isabella Evangelisti previews a collection of new paintings from Una Sealy that take as their focus the edge between land and sea, youth and maturity, on view at the RHA, Dublin.
Róisín Kennedy discusses Carey Clarke’s Portrait of My Daughter, Michelle, the winner of the Ireland-US Council Portrait Prize at the 178th RHA Annual Exhibition
Vivienne Roche belongs to a generation who transformed what sculpture could be. ‘I don’t consider myself an object-maker. I work with place and change’, she tells Brian McAvera while her exhibition continues at the Royal Hibernian Academy
