Patrick Pye’s innovation as a modernist lies in his revitalization of religious art, writes Stephen McKenna in his assessment of Brian McAvera’s new book on the artist
Mick O’Dea’s study of fellow academician Stephen McKenna, this year’s recipient of the Ireland-US Council/Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award, embodies the artistic ideals of both sitter and creator, writes Angela Griffith
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