A painter’s painter
New from the Autumn 2020 edition. Art critic Brian McAvera and artist Liam Belton recall the life and work of painter Michael Cullen Read More
What’s New
Golden Fleece winner shortlisted for Venice Biennale
New from the Autumn 2020 edition. Among the major postponements of arts events due to Covid-19 restrictions is the 2021 Venice Art Biennale, which has been moved to 2022. Read More
New from the Autumn 2020 edition. Influenced by his travels, David Dunne’s work has been a deep and profound study on honouring sites of rupture, writes Mike Fitzpatrick Read More
Force of Nature
New from the Autumn 2020 edition.
James Gorry recalls the unique life and work of semi-reclusive painter Jeremiah Hoad, who quietly pursued his ‘gentle art’ Read More
Peat’s last stand
New from the Autumn 2020 edition. James Fraher’s black-and-white images of Derrinlough Briquette Factory document the manufacturing process, from gathering the turf to the distribution of the polished bales, writes Stephanie McBride
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Orchestral flair
New from the Autumn 2020 edition In a time when ‘visual culture’ can mean ‘words’, Jonathan Hunter continues to find rich possibilities in an insistently visual painterly language, writes William Gallagher Read More
Sotheby’s: 9 September
New from the Autumn 2020 edition.
The highlight of Sotheby’s September sale is Louis le Brocquy’s Travelling Woman with Newspaper, which comes from the dispersal of the collection of Michael Smurfit. Read More
Adam’s: 2 September
New from the Autumn 2020 edition.
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst is very rarely seen at auction in Ireland, although his portrait of Florence Forsyth sold at Adam’s in June 2019. Read More
Hats off to the Highlanes
New from the Autumn 2020 edition. In the midst of lockdown, as galleries had to keep their doors firmly closed, the Highlanes Gallery in Drogheda announced a competition that was ‘developed in response to the constraints of the current global situation’. Read More
The spirit of Glendalough
New from the Autumn 2020 edition. The National Museum of Ireland’s up-coming Glendalough exhibition includes items that have come to light in the valley and its environs over the last two or three centuries and which have never been seen in public before, writes Matthew Seaver Read More