Mark Ewart visits Rachel Doolin’s studio as she finalises her installation for the Doswell Gallery, Cork based on her residency in Svalbard
While in the middle of one of the hottest summers for a generation, it was a surreal experience to be suddenly transported via Rachel Doolin’s burgeoning artwork, to the Arctic landscape of Svalbard (which lies halfway between Norway and the North Pole). Ironically, the artist’s pet Huskie was lying prostrate on the floor unaccustomed to the soaring temperatures. Nevertheless, the contrast was entirely appropriate, as the sights and sounds of Doolin’s deeply affecting artwork explores many fascinating contradictions and dualities surrounding materiality, habitation and the environment.
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