Hilary Heron’s sculpture Adam and Eve graces the cover of the summer edition. ‘As a female, Modernist sculptor, Hilary Heron had very few antecedents in Ireland,’ writes RIANN COULTER. Heron had the distinction not only of representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 1956, but also being one of the few living Irish artists that gallerist Victor Waddington brought with him to London when he closed his Dublin gallery. One of the others was Jack B Yeats, who also features in the edition: EMER McGARRY and JULIE BRAZIL shed light on Yeats’ works that feature the lone traveller or peddlers passing through rural Ireland. CRISTÍN LEACH looks at the collective work in the Crawford Art Gallery’s group exhibition; BRIAN McAVERA considers BRIAN LALOR’s topographical and illustrative prints in his retrospective; and FRANCIS HALSALL regards Dorothy Cross’ marble sculptures, which ‘almost glow as if animated by internal energy’. Anita Shelbourne tells AIDAN DUNNE how it wasn’t a decision on her part to be an artist – ‘I was a painter,’ she says. ‘It became me. I couldn’t do without it.’ STEPHANIE McBRIDE commends the work of photographic artist Jean Curran, who recreates images from cinema classics; and McBride also writes on the Victorian Goddard Henry Orpen, whose photographs ‘show technical and formal poise and his clear rapport with his subjects’. PETER MURRAY delights in the marine paintings of the 19th-century artist Anthony Carey Stannus; MARIE BOURKE looks at the legacies of Dublin’s Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853, held on the lawns of Leinster House; while PETER PEARSON recounts the rich history of Howth Castle, Co Dublin, its medieval and medieval-style buildings, which is a fragile cultural asset and amenity for locals and the many visitors to Howth. Elsewhere in the edition, there’s RACHEL McINTYRE on Deirdre O’Mahony; MARGARITA CAPPOCK on Bernadette Kiely and CATHERINE MARSHALL on Jason Turner.