The Autumn 21 edition boasts a superb selection of articles to enjoy, from the artists On View across Ireland from September to the end of November, as well as many informed and beautifully illustrated articles, featuring Jack B Yeats 150 Year Celebration, new work from John Noel Smith, Sallyanne Morgan and threadstories, interview with Tom Fitzgerald, Graduates 2021, Peter Burns, Sligo’s Neolithic Landscape and much more.
Caroline Scally refuses to be categorised and was generally recognised for what she was, a natural-born talent who followed her own track, writes Brian Fallon
John Noel Smith’s journey continues with an enlivening sense of momentum, writes Margarita Cappock
Peter Burns’ draws on his sculptural training while using a palette that encompasses the spectrum, writes Jim Smyth
‘I just can’t cut myself off from the real world, what’s happening around me – there is that underlying anxiety,’ sculptor Tom Fitzgerald tells Mike Fitzpatrick
Stephanie McBride discovers that, like Banksy and French music duo Daft Punk, threadstories is using her own masked identity and anonymity as a riff on celebrity status, or an inversion of it
The strictures of this strange period have galvanised an inventive, even joyous resourcefulness, writes Sarah Kelleher
Robert Hensey presents the case for classifying Sligo’s passage tomb landscape as a World Heritage Site
Mary Stratton Ryan looks at the life of Mary Kate Benson, a tentative figure in the Irish art pantheon, on the centenary of her death
Laurence Campbell was an enigmatic figure, markedl y different from his peers, writes Paula Murphy
150 years since the birth of Jack B Yeats, Hilary Pyle considers the concept of memory embedded in his work
Roger Kirker selects model ships in bottles from the collection of the National Maritime Museum of Ireland
