Marie Lynch celebrates the life and work of illustrator and watercolour artist Naomi Heather
Jean Pasley tells the story of writer Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, the inspiration behind a touring print exhibition by Irish and Japanese artists
This exhibition places Irish artists of different generations alongside international figures in unexpected juxtapositions that enrich how Irish art can be understood, writes Seán Kissane
Paula Murphy celebrates the work of one of Ireland’s most esteemed sculptors, John Henry Foley
At a time when men dominated the profession, Mildred Anne Butler achieved parity as an artist with her distinguished male contemporaries, writes Tom Duffy
Ann Wilson explores Harry Clarke’s only stained-glass windows in Kerry, which feature fairytale elements unusual in a religious setting
Julie Brazil and Emer McGarry look at Jack Butler Yeats’ images of Irish Travellers and the wandering poor, which provide a glimpse of his consistent interest in those who lived a nomadic life
Riann Coulter traces the path of the sculptor Hilary Heron, whose retrospective exhibition is showing at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
Aidan Dunne finds in the paintings of Anita Shelbourne subjects woven into the very fabric of environment
Dickon Hall considers the work of Northern Irish artist Arthur Armstrong on the centenary of his birth
Logan Sisley salutes an indomitable and towering figure in Irish art, Sarah Purser
Mary Stratton Ryan traces the life and career of Wexford-born artist Francis Alfred Danby
Martha Severens tells the story of Henrietta de Beaulieu Dering Johnston, who travelled from Dublin to Charles Town, South Carolina, becoming America’s first professional woman artist
Once prominent in Irish life, the vicereines and their legacies are largely overlooked, but the faces of these women have now been afforded a place on the walls of Dublin Castle, writes Myles Campbell
Gabriel Hayes was invariably identified in the press as a woman, wife, mother and grandmother before being acknowledged as an artist, which distracted from serious critical reception of her work, writes Paula Murphy
Kathryn Milligan traces the career of Harry Aaron Kernoff, whose art was inspired by city life
One gets the sense that Ralph Cusack was always looking for the next project in which to throw himself, writes Adam Pearson
Flannagan was ecstatic about his first encounter with Ireland and particularly the abundance of different stones lying in the fields in Connemara, writes Paula Murphy
James Gorry recalls the unique life and work of semireclusive painter Jeremiah Hoad, who quietly pursued his ‘gentle art’
Catherine Manthorne recounts the life and work of the Irish American landscape artist Eliza Pratt Greatorex
On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, Michael Waldron assesses the work of Cork artist Sylvia Cooke-Collis
Artist Charles Lamb’s paintings conveyed a romantic ideal of the new Ireland, writes Marie Bourke
Artist Frances Kelly didn’t aim for exact likenesses in her portraits of people or flowers, but rather for some inner, more abstract, significance, writes Hilary Pyle
Barbara Warren’s work, rather than startling or imposing on the eye, invites the spectator to come in, writes Hilary Pyle
Hilary Pyle recalls the artist Hilda Roberts, two-time winner of the RDS Taylor Art Award, whose talents were apparent from an early age
Like an orchestral conductor, the artist Genieve Figgis encourages and cajoles the passages of paint in her work, writes Cian McLoughlin
Nuala Clarke describes her process as excavating what’s on the inside, writes Isabella Evangelisisti
Joy Gerrard uses media images to re-image and memorialise crowd events, writes Margarita Cappock
Locky Morris is a master of finding beauty and humour in the everyday, writes Riann Coulter
A collection of drawings and watercolours by Cork artist Daniel Macdonald display his skill as a draughtsman and his wry wit, writes Niamh O’Sullivan
Francis Halsall previews new paintings from Mark Francis which expand the boundaries of the grid to suggest the interconnectivity of today’s network society
Davey Moor explores the qualities of light as a medium for sculpture as seen in a group show at Solstice, Co Meath
The six artists selected for Futures have succeeded in reaching an important milestone in their careers, writes Pádraic E Moore
‘The world changed for me’. Hilary Pyle remembers Melanie le Brocquy’s realisation that sculpture was to be her métier when she discovered the sculpture studio at art school
Mark Ewart visits Rachel Doolin’s studio as she finalises her installation for the Doswell Gallery, Cork based on her residency in Svalbard
Tom McLean caught the imagination of our readers in our 8 under 40 feature: here Una Sealy meets the emerging artist making a name for himself
Mic Moroney meets Kilkenny’s first family of creatives, war photographer Richard Mosse, potter Nicholas, and artists Tania and Paul whose Quaker background influences
their daily lives.
Seán Ó Laoire appraises a new study by Fergal MacCabe of part-visionary, part polemicist, townplanner and architect Frank Gibney
Freedom of cultural expression was the rallying call of an arts group formed in 1925 and led by Liam O’Flaherty and Cecil Salkeld, as Brian Trench recalls
Peter Murray pays tribute to the scholar and artist whose meticulous recording of Irish antiquities in the 19th century remains an invaluable resource today
James Hanley examines the art of Brian Palm whose love of the sea made him an ideal designer for An Post’s RMS Leinster stamp launching in October
Robert Ballagh has long been recognised for his political engagement; BRIAN McAVERA asks him to enlarge on the artist’s position in
society ahead of his retrospective at the RHA in September
Catherine Marshall visits the studio of Hennessy Craig prize-winner Mollie Douthit as she prepares for a solo exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2015
Marianne O’Kane Boal hopes a touring retrospective on the work of Brian Ballard will convey the full trajectory of his practice from figuration to abstraction
Stephanie McBride draws parallels between recent photography and new works on video by Anthony Haughey to be shown at Limerick City Gallery of Art
Peter Murray remembers the talented artist, Robert Gregory, son of Lady Gregory of Coole Park, whose surviving works are testament to unfulfilled promise
Judith Hill examines the political content of Robert Ballagh’s survey exhibition at the Hunt Museum, Limerick
Mary Stratton Ryan outlines the life and work of artist Phoebe Donovan ahead of an exhibition of her works during the Wexford Arts Festival
Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch remembers a leading member of the Celtic Revival, artist Mia Cranwill
Brian Fallon remembers a modest exhibition that began a love affair with the work of Harry Kernof
