Joy Gerrard uses media images to re-image and memorialise crowd events, writes Margarita Cappock
The artist Joy Gerrard’s most recent body of work at the Alan Cristea Gallery in London seems apposite in her depiction of the Brexit protests in central London in June and September last year. ‘Protest and Remembrance’ nominally serves as the theme of this group show of four mid-career British and Irish artists (Miriam de Búrca, Joy Gerrard, Mary Griffiths and Barbara Walker), all of whom use drawing to examine elements of protest and/or remembrance through a range of subjects including war, political demonstration, burial sites and lost industry set in both the urban and the rural, past and present. Gerrard’s subject matter is the most current in that it deals with the conflicted, divisive nature of contemporary British politics and society.
Research into theoretical principles across the fields of art, science and aesthetics imbue Nuala O’Donovan’s work, writes Mark Ewart
Eamonn Doyle’s portraits of Dubliners are unposed, untroubled by vanity and full of momentum, writes Stephanie McBride
