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The Art Year in Ireland
Art Comment

The Art Year in Ireland


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Michael Cullen: A Painter Painting
Painting

Michael Cullen: A Painter Painting


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Looking Back
Art Comment

Looking Back


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Picture world
Painting

Picture world

Aidan Dunne visits the survey exhibition of painter Richard Gorman at the Hugh Lane Gallery


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Silent space
Painting

Silent space

Dublin artist Francis Matthews manages to give the impression of reality without becoming enmeshed in itemising endless physical detail, writes Aidan Dunne

 


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Heaven and earth
Artists

Heaven and earth

Paddy Graham is warily self-critical as an artist, a quality that, while not unusual, is by no means universal, writes Aidan Dunne


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Towards eternity
Artists Painting

Towards eternity

Aidan Dunne examines the richly textural grid-based paintings of Denis Farrell, finding work of great temporal depth


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Colour scale
Artists

Colour scale

Ahead of her touring exhibition commencing at the Highlanes Gallery, Diana Copperwhite talks with Aidan Dunne


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Points of departure
Artists

Points of departure

Working between the north Mayo coast and his Dublin studio, the landscape in Eddie Kennedy’s paintings is invariably a stepping stone to something else rather than an end in itself, writes Aidan Dunne


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On the wing
Artists Photography

On the wing

Photographer and filmmaker Martin Healy tells Aidan Dunne how there’s something magical in using an analogue camera, ‘an alchemy’


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Abstraction
Artists

Abstraction

The RHA’s exhibition indicates that the term ‘abstract’ now encompasses a broad church of artistic endeavour, writes Aidan Dunne


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Making waves
Artists

Making waves

Peter Murray discovers that nature, culture and science intersect in the work of George Bolster


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Scaling up
Artists Painting

Scaling up

Aidan Dunne talks to painter Martin Mooney about his career and the development of his work

 


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Drawn to life
Artists Painting

Drawn to life

Though best known for his landscapes and portraits, Blaise Smith has been painting still lifes for more than two decades and, writes Aidan Dunne, they are among his most personal and speculative works


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Mystic space
Artists Painting

Mystic space

I’m always looking for an elemental quality,‚’ artist David Smith tells Aidan Dunne


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Silent matter
Artists Exhibitions

Silent matter

Aidan Dunne considers the work of four artists, whose paintings are on view in the atmospheric space of Rathfarnham Castle


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Fractured forms
Sculpture

Fractured forms

Aidan Dunne discovers how artist Ursula Burke uses the Classical tradition to reveal problematic and troubled realities


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Dreamscapes
Artists Arts Lives and Exhibitions

Dreamscapes

Aidan Dunne finds in the paintings of Anita Shelbourne subjects woven into the very fabric of environment


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Classical values
Artists Painting

Classical values

‘I suppose my approach to painting is very much a classical one,’ Maeve McCarthy tells Aidan Dunne as she reflects on her personal style


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Black magic
Painting

Black magic

Genieve Figgis tells Aidan Dunne she likes to work in a way that leaves room for the unexpected to happen


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