The Summer 22 boasts a superb selection of articles to enjoy, from the artists On View across Ireland from June to the end of August, as well as many informed and beautifully illustrated articles, featuring Patrick Graham, Niamh O’Malley at Venice, interview with Marie Hanlon, Colin Davidson, Mary Furlong, Eddie, Mooney, the Ireland-U.S. Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture award winner Aches, Knowth and much more.
Peter Murray visits the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, where artist Niamh O’Malley is on show
Highly acclaimed for his portraiture work, Colin Davidson’s images are particularly evocative when they depict the familiar features of Belfast, writes Riann Coulter
Catherine Bowe finds that while Marie Holohan’s paintings have a maze-like structure, her work remains free and unforced
Paddy Graham is warily self-critical as an artist, a quality that, while not unusual, is by no means universal, writes Aidan Dunne
Catherine Marshall finds beauty, fun and a new political consciousness in Marie Hanlon’s latest work
John P O’Sullivan visits artist Eddie Mooney at his Dublin home and studio
Susan Curley Meyer explores a favourite Dublin ‘type’, the flower seller, and her representations in many forms of visual culture
Unravelling the sequence of carving on the stones has been challenging but has been helped by the fact that there are so many examples to study, writes Elizabeth Shee Twohig
Marking the centenary of his birth, Brian Fallon considers the work of artist Richard Kingston
Roger Stalley explores the plant and flower carvings on the capitals at Corcomroe abbey, designs that were unique at that time in Europe
Felix M Larkin recalls the work of John Fergus O’Hea, the principal artist of the Weekly Freeman cartoons in the 1880s in Ireland
Margarita Cappock and Hannah Baker review works from the oeuvre of artist Sarah Cecilia Harrison
Angela Forte is an artist who is best known for her distinctive use of geometric form and colour.
