The difficulties facing the National College of Art and Design are varied. There is a lack of teaching space, a lack of finance for staffing and materials, deteriorating infrastructure and, most importantly, the college suffers from poor self-definition and a sense of its mission relevance. The college authorities recently released a document entitled Futures, bold and curious – 2019-2024. Wholly aspirational and insubstantial in both content and tone, it is nevertheless highly ambitious. It identifies future imperatives and the problems that would make them difficult to implement.
Using satellite imaging, photographer David Thomas Smith echoes the Arecibo radio message transmitted into deep space forty-five years ago, writes Stephanie McBride
‘I knew from the age of three what I wanted to do,‚’ sculptor Carolyn Mulholland tells Brian McAvera
The historically important Doneraile Court in north Cork has opened its doors to the public following an extensive conservation and renovation project, writes Peter Pearson
