Catalogues

Then and now

‘There’s a huge sensuous pleasure in making a colour’ Fergus Martin tells Brian McAvera as an exhibition of his work opens at IMMA

Catalogues

Art Comment

In the flesh

‘Everything that is beautiful has something creepy about it or something unsettling underneath,’ Vera Klute talks to Brian McAvera about her aesthetic

Catalogues

Catalogues

Art News and Diary

Godfather of cool

Book Review: Drawing Down the Landscapes of County Down

Catalogues

Celtic myths in the 21st Century

Book Review: Dreams from the Lion’s Head: The Work of Eamon Colman

Book Review: A Conversation Piece: Poetry and Art

Portraits by Neil Shawcross

A New Vision

IMMA And The Devil’s Advocate

A Gothic Sensibility

Irish Parables

Style and Substance

Robert Ballagh has long been recognised for his political engagement; BRIAN McAVERA asks him to enlarge on the artist’s position in
society ahead of his retrospective at the RHA in September

Flying Blind

Le Brocquy: Masters and Muses

Memory and Invention

Capturing the Fleeting Eternal

Marching to the Barricades

Cabinet Curiosa

The Director’s Chair

The Power of Uncertainty

A Robust Grace

Interior Visions

Class of ’84

Reforming the Female Narrative

Through the Looking Glass

Meditations on Abstraction

Composing the Elements

Harmonious Variations

Constructions in Colour and Light

Empirical Investigations

Book Review: Beyond the White Cube: A Retrospective of Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland

Book Review: Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1965 – 2005

Book Review: Michael Craig-Martin

Book Review: Inner Worlds Outside

Book Review: James Barry, 1741-1806: The Great Historical Painter

Book Review: Tom Fitzgerald

Book Review: Writers on Howard Hodgkin

Book Review: Tony O’Malley

Book Review: Crossing: Anita Groener

Book Review: Richard Gorman: Paintings

Book Review: Michael Kane: If It Is True, I – XX

Book Review: James McKenna, Sculptor: 1933-2000, a Catalogue

Book Review: Daphne Wright, Gandon Profile No 23

Book Review: Donald Teskey

Book Review: Deborah Brown: From Painting to Sculpture

Book Review: The White Stag Group

Book Review: Maud Cotter: More than Anything

Book Review: Gardens of Earthly Delight

Book Review: Dorothy Cross

Book Review: The Banks of the Bann: Barbara Freeman and Paul Wilson

Book Review: Earthworks: Derval Symes

Book Review: J B Vallely

Book Review: Shades of Light: Evocations of Summer

Book Review: James Hanley: A Decade of Works on Paper

Book Review: Four Now

Book Review: Sculpture & Gardens

Book Review: Stephen McKenna

Book Review: David King: Echoes

Book Review: The West as Metaphor

Book Review: From Dark Passages: Ian Charlesworth

Book Review: The Beckett Suite: Diarmuid Delargy

Book Review: Tom Fitzgerald: The Ministry of Dust Drawings

Book Review: Modern Masters

Book Review: Parable of the Prodigal Son: Hughie O’Donoghue

Book Review: Irish Museum of Modern Art: The Collection

Book Review: Mourne: Words by Paul Yates, Images by Basil Blackshaw

Book Review: Cor Klaasen: A Breath of Fresh Air

Book Review: Sophie Calle

Book Review: Margherita Manzelli

Book Review: The Robert Sellar Collection at Flowerfield

Book Review: J B Vallely

Book Review: A Distinctive Palette: The Art of Georgina Moutray Kyle

Book Review: Modern American Painting from the NYU Art Collection

Book Review: The Seven Sacraments: Abigail O’Brien

Book Review: Luis Melendez: Still Lifes

Book Review: A German Dream: Masterpieces of Romanticism from the Nationalgalerie Berlin

Book Review: Catherine McWilliams: A Retrospective 1961-2004

Book Review: William Orpen: Politics Sex & Death

Book Review: William Crozier

Book Review: Imagining Ireland: The Collection of Drawings and Watercolours by John Butler Yeats and Jack B Yeats

Book Review: Joyce in Art

Book Review: George Petrie: The Rediscovery of Ireland’s Past

Book Review: Mark O’Neill: Chapters

Book Review: Jack B Yeats: Master of Ceremonies

Book Review: Colin Davidson: No Continuing City

Book Review: Marc Quinn: Flesh

Book Review: Mary Burke: Semi-Detached Reflections

Book Review: Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time

Book Review: The Forgotten Irish Artist: William Docherty Weir 1863-1903

Book Review: Crawford Open 1-4, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery

Book Review: An Irish Eye: Landscapes of Fact & Imagination

Book Review: Hector McDonnell

Book Review: A Vision of Modern Art: In Memory of Dorothy Walker

Book Review: High Falutin Stuff

Book Review: Imaging Ireland: Selected Works

Book Review: One Hundred Years of Watercolours

Book Review: Basil Blackshaw: Paintings 2000-2002

Book Review: AIB Art 2

Book Review: Meath County Council: Art Collection 1955-2002

Book Review: Nick Miller: Figure to Ground, 1993-2003

Book Review: Barbara Warren RHA: A Retrospective

Book Review: Paul Henry

Book Review: David King: Pleasant Places

Book Review: One Place Twice

Book Review: EV+A 2003

Book Review: Denis Farrell. Faith: Paintings 2001-3

Book Review: Cobra. National Touring Exhibitions

Book Review: Colin Davidson New Paintings

Book Review: Cecil Maguire: Towards a Retrospective

The Parable of the Sower

Living proof ‘I guess I’m a little tired of being typecast’

Painter and master printmaker Stephen Lawlor talks to Brian McAvera about the nuance of approach required for each medium, ahead of his solo show at Oliver Sears Gallery this winter

Fit to print

Letters

Pye’s road to Damascus

The god of small things

Outsider Art

True West

Fish, Flesh and Fowl

Fields of vision

Colm Brennan: translations

Deborah Brown: a life in the round

About face

Maud Cotter Mind over matter

John Doherty in-focus

T P Flanagan Landscape and lineage

Art that consoles

Jim Manley from the hills to the shore

State of Surveillance

Cathy Carman Dreamworks

Tracking Donald Teskey

Right of Reply

Planned Palimpsests

Uneasy Pastoral

25 years of Irish art: a personal selection

The Draughtsman Painter

Right of Reply

Vocation and Vision

Reflections on a Troubled Canvas

The Land of Metamorphosis

Against the Canon

The Lithographer’s Mark

Eyewitness Account

The Artists’ Arena

The Boundaries of Abstraction

Book Review: BERNIE MASTERSON: WEATHER

Book Review: WATERMARK

Wall power

Between Abstraction and Landscape

Book Review: REAL HALLUCINATIONS: BRIAN MacMAHON

Book Review: EFFORTS AND IDEALS: PRINTS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Book Review: GENERATION: 30 YEARS OF CREATIVITY AT TEMPLE BAR GALLERY & STUDIOS

Book Review: MARIA SIMONDS-GOODING: A RETROSPECTIVE

Book Review: STEPHEN MCKENNA: OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS

Book Review: DOROTHY CROSS: CONNEMARA

Book Review: NATURAL RESEMBLANCES: JORDI FORNIÉS

Book Review: PERSONAL CHOICE: TWENTY ARTISTS FROM THE LIMERICK SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN

Book Review: PATRICK SCOTT: IMAGE SPACE LIGHT

Book Review: RHA ANNUAL EXHIBITION

Book Review: THE PAST IS UNPREDICTABLE

Book Review: CHARLEMONT’S MARINO: PORTRAIT OF A LANDSCAPE

Book Review: LEE MILLER IN JAMES JOYCE’S DUBLIN

Book Review: SAMUEL FORDE: VISIONS OF TRAGEDY 1805-1828

Book Review: PARALLEL VISIONS

Book Review: SEVEN

Book Review: CLOUD ILLUSIONS I RECALL

Book Review: GERARD DILLON, ART & FRIENDSHIPS

Book Review: COLIN DAVIDSON: BETWEEN THE WORDS

Book Review: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

Book Review: INTO THE LIGHT

Book Review: ANALYSING CUBISM

Book Review: CHANGING STATES: CONTEMPORARY IRISH ART & FRANCIS BACON’S STUDIO

Book Review: NORTHERN IRELAND: 30 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Book Review: MELANCHOLY WITNESS: IMAGES OF THE TROUBLES

Book Review: THE ARTIST’S EYE

Book Review: MOTION CAPTURE: DRAWING AND THE MOVING IMAGE

Book Review: AN ELECTIVE FAMILY ALBUM: PETER RICHARDS

Book Review: ELEMENTS

Book Review: MARK SWORDS: MOSAIC

Book Review: SINEAD O’DONNELL: CAUTION

Book Review: UNA SEALY: A PIANO IN THE KITCHEN AND OTHER STORIES

Book Review: NORTHERN RHYTHM: THE ART OF JOHN LUKE (1906-75)

Book Review: EITHNE JORDAN: STREET

Book Review: BECOMING: ALICE MAHER

Book Review: SEÁN KEATING: ART, POLITICS AND BUILDING THE IRISH NATION

Book Review: RHA 182ND ANNUAL EXHIBITION DUBLIN, 2012

Book Review: MICHAEL CANNING

Book Review: BLACKSHAW AT 80

Book Review: THE AIB ART COLLECTION

Book Review: SEÁN KEATING: CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS

Book Review: REVOLUTIONARY STATES: HOME RULE AND MODERN IRELAND

Book Review: BARRY FLANAGAN: POET OF THE BUILDING SITE

Book Review: ROYAL ULSTER ACADEMY 130TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION

Book Review: GLORIA

Book Review: GRAHAM GINGLES 1971-2011

Book Review: LITHOSPHERE: EILEEN MacDONAGH

Book Review: EIL√çS O’CONNELL: HAPTIC

Book Review: SEAN SCULLY

Book Review: CONOR FALLON: THOUGHTS ON SCULPTURE

Book Review: THE QUEEN: ART & IMAGE

Book Review: RHA 181ST ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2011

Book Review: THE FORGOTTEN ART OF FLOATING: MARTIN FINNIN

Book Review: RICHARD GORMAN, PAINTINGS AND PRINTS

Book Review: KATHERINE BOUCHER BEUG: SOMETIME

Book Review: BARRIE COOKE

Book Review: THE GOLDEN BOUGH

Book Review: JAMES CLANCY BORDER COUNTRY

Book Review: A LIFE’S WORK: SONJA LANDWEER

Book Review: ART OF DOWN: THE FINE ART COLLECTION OF DOWN COUNTY MUSEUM

Book Review: DEARC: CELEBRATING 150 YEARS OF THE RDS TAYLOR ART AWARD

Book Review: EGO: ROBERT BALLAGH

Book Review: PHILIP TAAFFE: ANIMA MUNDI

Book Review: ANOTHER DIMENSION: SEACOURT PRINT WORKSHOP

Book Review: MICHAEL KANE: LIFE STORY

Book Review: MICHAEL WARREN: KIREJI

Book Review: LOCKY MORRIS: THIS THEN

Book Review: TAKING STOCK: ACQUISTIONS 2000-2010

Book Review: TONY O’MALLEY: CONSTRUCTIONS

Book Review: BLACKROCK COLLEGE: SESQUICENTENARY EXHIBITION

Book Review: PASSION AND POLITICS, SIR JOHN LAVERY: THE SALON REVISITED

Book Review: GABRIEL METSU

Book Review: ART BEYOND ULSTER

Book Review: PORTRAITS & PEOPLE: ART IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND

Book Review: THE IDEA OF ISLANDS TESKEY HUBBARD

Book Review: ANNE TALLENTIRE: THIS, AND OTHER THINGS 1999-2010

Book Review: RHA 180th ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2010

Book Review: OLIVER COMERFORD

Book Review: FOR THE LOVE OF ART: THE KELLY COLLECTION

Book Review: JOHN GIBBONS: LIGHT/LISTEN

Book Review: VERTICAL THOUGHTS: MORTON FELDMAN AND THE VISUAL ARTS

Book Review: Susan MacWilliam: Remote Viewing

Book Review: Royal Hibernian Academy 179th Annual Exhibition, Dublin 2009

Book Review: Edward Munch: Prints

Book Review: Mapping Form: Drawing and Sculpture

Book Review: The Quick and the Dead

Book Review: FRANCIS BACON: A TERRIBLE BEAUTY

Book Review: VISIONS: A CELEBRATION OF IRISH ART FROM THE ULSTER MUSEUM

Book Review: ARCHIVING PLACE & TIME: CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE IN NORTHERN IRELAND SINCE THE BELFAST AGREEMENT

Book Review: GRACE HENRY: THE PERSON AND ARTIST

Book Review: TERROR AND THE SUBLIME: ART IN AN AGE OF ANXIETY

Book Review: Boulevard Magenta

Book Review: Calder Jewellery

Book Review: Mary Fitzgerald: After Life

Book Review: David Crone 1979-2009

Book Review: Terry Winters: Signal to Noise

Book Review: Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe

Book Review: The Nurses’ Home: The Mater Hospital College of Nursing, Mater Campus

Book Review: Ground Up

Book Review: Perfopuerto

Book Review: Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait

Book Review: Post War: Pre Troubles

Book Review: Icons of the North

Book Review: The Rembrandt House: A Catalogue of Rembrandt Etchings

Book Review: Not in Alphabetical Order: Fingal Public Art Collection, Vol. 1

Book Review: Open / Invited e v+ a 2008 Too Early for Vacation

Book Review: Commodity Form: Colin Darke & David Mabb

Book Review: Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups: Hans Christian Andersen and William Seward Burroughs

Book Review: 10,000 to 50: Contemporary Art from the Members of Business to Arts

Book Review: National Gallery of Ireland: Essential Guide

Book Review: In the Mind’s Eye

Book Review: Irish Art 1947-1974: The Great Southern Art Collection

Book Review: Sophia Rosamond Praeger 1867-1954: Art, Literature, Science

Book Review: Anne Madden

Book Review: Lucian Freud

Book Review: Leonardo da Vinci: The Codex Leicester

Book Review: Looking for Orion: Rowan Gillespie

Book Review: Patrick Hall: Drawings

Book Review: Miroslaw Balka, Tristes Tropiques

Book Review: Eddie Kennedy

Book Review: Paintings from Poland: Symbolism to Modern Art (1880-1939)

Book Review: Robert Bordo: Blind Spot

Book Review: Alex Katz: New York

Book Review: Barbara Freeman: Works on Paper 1966-2006

Book Review: Michael Warren

Book Review: Richard Long: Lismore Castle Arts

Book Review: Paul McKinley: Farewell Chestnut Avenue

Book Review: Michael Craig Martin

Book Review: The Writer’s Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers

Book Review: A Time and a Place: Two Centuries of Irish Social Life

Book Review: Home: Creating a Contemporary Memorial

Book Review: Ballagh: Robert Ballagh – Artist and Designer, a Retrospective

Book Review: Art in State Buildings 1995-2005

Book Review: Art on the Move: Hidden Treasures from the CIÉ Art Collection

Catalogues

New Horizon

Everyday People

Catalogues

Catalogues

Silent Testimony

Miller’s Crossing

Diaspora

The Art of Synthesis

Book Review: Irish Theatrescapes: New Irish Plays, Adapted European Plays and Irish Classics

Book Review: Construct

Book Review: Tim Shaw

The Wright Stuff

Book Review: Five Decades of Focus: A Photographic History of Ireland’s Stanislavski Theatre

Book Review: PANI

Book Review: Liliane Tomasko, Sense

Book Review: Royal Ulster Academy of Arts 2015

Book Review: Vanishing Futures

A Matter of Form

The Medium Is The Message

Book Review: Invisible Barriers: Moving Images

Book Review: A Terrible Beauty: Robert Ballagh

Book Review: Two Birds One Stone

Book Review: Still (The) Barbarians

Book Review: David Crone: Echoes and Reflections

Sugar Rush

Book Review: The Crawford at the Castle

Book Review: Conflicting Visions In A Turbulent Age

Book Review: Daphne Wright: Emotional Archaeology

Book Review: Lucian Freud

Book Review: Modality of the Visable: Michael Kane

Book Review: Royal Ulster Academy of Arts Annual Exhibition

Making their Mark

Book Review: John by Jean: fifty years of friendship

Talking heads

The weight of light

‘I’m trying to make the invisible visible’ Pat Harris tells Brian McAvera on the eve of his exhibition at the Taylor Galleries, Dublin

Theatre of discontent

Brian McAvera wonders whether soulless consumerism is the message in Ian Cumberland’s dramatically installed artworks recently shown at Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast

Shadowlands

Inside & out

Shadows from the past

From the ground up

Subject or object?

Taking Stock

Force of nature

Back to the future

Spirit and Light

Who do you think you are?