Volume 37. No. 2

Autumn 2020


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Autumn 2020

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A painter’s painter

A painter’s painter

Art critic Brian McAvera and artist Liam Belton recall the life and work of painter Michael Cullen



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Homage to Eileen Gray

Homage to Eileen Gray

Sculptor Eilis O’Connell uses digital technology to show her work in an experimental and groundbreaking way, writes Jennifer Gof


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Burgundy light

Burgundy light

Cristín Leach looks at Maeve McCarthy’s new paintings as she prepares for her forthcoming exhibition at the Molesworth Gallery


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Enlightenment

Enlightenment

Stephen Brandes always subverts earnestness with the sardonic, mordant and mischievous wit that permeates all of his work, writes Francis Halsall


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Orchestral flair

Orchestral flair

In a time when ‘visual culture‚’ can mean ‘words‚’, Jonathan Hunter continues to find rich possibilities in an insistently visual painterly language, writes William Gallagher


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Graduating in a pandemic

Graduating in a pandemic

As whole-scale systemic change seems inevitable, the qualities a degree in art, design or architecture demands of and fosters in students are invaluable, writes Sarah Kelleher


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Fire and freedom

Fire and freedom

Influenced by his travels, David Dunne’s work has been a deep and profound study on honouring sites of rupture, writes Mike Fitzpatrick


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Veiled Metaphors

Veiled Metaphors

Robert Armstrong talks to Brian McAvera about his varied body of work and his pathway from graphic design to landscape painting


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Peat’s last stand

Peat’s last stand

James Fraher’s black-and-white images of Derrinlough Briquette Factory document the manufacturing process, from gathering the turf to the distribution of the polished bales, writes Stephanie McBride


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Force of Nature

Force of Nature

James Gorry recalls the unique life and work of semireclusive painter Jeremiah Hoad, who quietly pursued his ‘gentle art’


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Aurora’s orchard

Aurora’s orchard

Terence Reeves-Smyth explores the eccentric history of this charming country house as it celebrates sixty years of public access


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Double Vision

Double Vision

The collection of 19th century stereo negatives of the Gap Girls of Dunloe in Kerry comprise a rare and unique body of work, writes Julian Campbell

 

 


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The spirit of Glendalough

The spirit of Glendalough

The National Museum of Ireland’s up-coming Glendalough exhibition includes items that have come to light in the valley and its environs over the last two or three centuries and which have never been seen in public before, writes Matthew Seaver


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Figures of Dignity

Figures of Dignity

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


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Sotheby’s 9 September

Sotheby’s 9 September


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Adam’s: 2 September

Adam’s: 2 September


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Salvaged arts

Salvaged arts

Christian Dupont applauds typographer, designer and letterpress printer Jamie Murphy, founder of The Salvage Press


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Irish Tweed: History, Tradition, Fashion

Irish Tweed: History, Tradition, Fashion


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Curator’s Choice

Curator’s Choice

Brian Walsh selects the jacket worn by William of Orange during the Battle of the Boyne


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