The Summer 23 edition boasts a superb selection of articles to enjoy, from artists On View across Ireland in June, July and August, as well as many informed and beautifully illustrated articles, featuring Richard Gorman at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Lorna Corrigan at KCAT Studios, Joanna Hopkins, Shevaun Doherty, interview with Richard Malone, the Ireland-U.S. Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture award winner Paul MacCormaic, Photography – Andrew Nuding, Waterfords Cultural Quarter, Heritage – Stone Forts, Hilda Roberts HRHA (1901- 1982) and much more.
Hilary Pyle recalls the artist Hilda Roberts, two-time winner of the RDS Taylor Art Award, whose talents were apparent from an early age
Angela Griffith appraises Paul MacCormaic’s painting of Lucky Khambule, this year’s winner of the Ireland–U.S. Council and Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award
Aidan Dunne visits the survey exhibition of painter Richard Gorman at the Hugh Lane Gallery
Lorna Corrigan’s paintings are simultaneously riotous, explosive and exuberant, writes Catherine Marshall
Cristín Leach visits Joanna Hopkins’ recent exhibition, which presents as a deeply personal engagement with communal, multigenerational wisdom
Rachel Thomas interviews Richard Malone, an artist who works across the media of sculpture, fashion and performance, pushing the boundaries of traditional sculpture.
Stephanie McBride finds that Andrew Nuding’s photobook Hunt the Wren mixes tradition and modernity, revitalising ways of belonging in place and history
Shevaun Doherty tells John P O’Sullivan that a trip to Kew Gardens in London with her aunt decided her vocation
The great stone forts are the ultimate expressions of the political power of early medieval ruling families, writes Christiaan Corlett
Roger Stalley examines the relationship between the carvings of the mason and the metalworker in building and shrine decoration in 12th-century Ireland
Roy Foster welcomes Waterford’s Museum Quarter, which celebrates the city’s heritage in spectacular style
Peter Pearson finds a wealth of horological riches in Waterford’s new museum
The ethos of Quakerism informed the impulse to establish Waterford’s Municipal Art Collection, writes Peter Murray
Eamonn McEneaney selects an early 18th-century silver plaque that forms a centrepiece in Waterford’s new Irish Wake Museum
