Cristín Leach visits Joanna Hopkins’ recent exhibition, which presents as a deeply personal engagement with communal, multigenerational wisdom
Cristín Leach looks at Maeve McCarthy’s new paintings as she prepares for her forthcoming exhibition at the Molesworth Gallery
Cristín Leach talks with Cian McLoughlin, whose ongoing interest in the painting of crowds is ‘accidentally topical’
Artist Jack Hickey tells Cristín Leach that his influences range from Caravaggio to Nan Goldin
Cristín Leach finds that the exhibition ‘A Matter of Time’ at the Crawford Art Gallery moves from the political to the personal, and the local to the global, without skipping a beat
Born in Galway in 1955, now Dublin and Berlin based, Cecily Brennan has been exhibiting since the late 1970s and making art about pain for decades. Her exhibition, ‘Pressure’, at the Glucksman Gallery, pulls together several major works from the last twenty-five years, taking a laws-of-physics-style view of the theme: pain as a form of energy or force, and – in what feels like a neat nod to Newton’s third law of motion, pairing actions with equal and opposite reactions – pressure as a form of pain. It’s a theme rich in potential interpretations and one that has long been present in Brennan’s practice.
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