In a new memoir, Robert Ballagh explores a different form of portraiture, with words on paper, writes Ciaran Carty
When Robert Ballagh was nearing seventy he was photographed in a variety of poses from which he selected eight to use as the basis for a series of life-size paintings. Laying himself bare, without even his glasses, they convey the timeless aura of a man confronting his own mortality. With these ruthlessly honest paintings, it seemed he had pushed self-portraiture as far as it could go.
Comhghall Casey is a keeper of ordinary things made extraordinary through his art, writes Isabella Evangelisti ahead of his exhibition at Solomon Fine Art this autumn
Christian Dupont reflects on the personal and political desires conveyed in two cartoons by Grace Gifford Plunkett
Recently elected ARHA Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh is proof that the outward appearance of Academicians may change but the concern with discipline remains constant, Niamh NicGhabhann reports