Originally Published in Print, February 2023. Almost three years after the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the National Gallery of Ireland announced an exhibition courtesy of the Tate Gallery in London: nearly ninety artworks by J.M.W. Turner on display in … Continue reading The Exuberant One A Review of Turner: The Sun is God in the National Gallery of Ireland.
Luring us into a fantastical world of fragmentation and fluidity, Bassam Al-Sabah has turned the Douglas Hyde Gallery into a space, or rather, an expanse, in which reality is unbounded. Constructs of gender, time, and body dissipate into a world … Continue reading Bassam Al-Sabah’s Dreamlike Odyssey through the Self. A review of the artist’s solo exhibition ‘IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS’ at the Douglas Hyde Gallery.
Still from Love is the Message, the Message is Death by Arthur Jafa. Image provided courtesy of the artist and the Douglas Hyde Gallery. “We must disrupt the assumption that the assertion of love is something that does not … Continue reading Love is the Message, the Message is Death by Arthur Jafa Annabelle Frockt Reviews the Irish Premiere of Arthur Jafa’s Film.
Image provided courtesy of the artist and A4 Sounds. Walk backwards out of the dream Where a clutch of bare twigs shattered the face of the moon (Your instinct insists it can’t happen) Peer down through dayless dim At the … Continue reading Story/Telling Emma Fitzgerald Reviews AN TIONSCADAL DROMCHLA EXHIBITION 00 by Lydia MacBride
Image provided courtesy of the artist and Kerlin Gallery. Established in 1988, the Kerlin Gallery is a hidden gem in Dublin’s art scene. On the second floor of their Anne’s Lane building, I recently encountered a haunting and emotive collection … Continue reading IS AND IS NOT by Willie Doherty Isabelle Doyle and Kate Moloney Review ‘IS AND IS NOT’ by Willie Doherty.
●●●●○ Despite his status as creator of Ireland’s most beloved painting, Irish nineteenth-century watercolourist Frederic William Burton is often a forgotten figure. While The Meeting on the Turret Stairs has been widely acclaimed, his other works evoke significantly less recognition. The … Continue reading Frederic William Burton: For the Love of Art The National Gallery of Ireland’s latest major exhibition offers visitors an opportunity to discover the impressive career of this home-grown talent, alongside works of friends, contemporaries and masters.
The pieces in the exhibition are in one sense interactive, as the viewer must move through the space to experience the full effect of each piece, following on from Garry’s usual interest in how humans navigate the world. (●●●●○) Continue reading A New Quiet – review
In 2011 Pamela de Brí took to the rails and began a 1,000 km cycle across the MGWR network, retracing its former glories and enduring beauty. Midland-Lár Tíre follows her travels. (●●●●○) Continue reading Midland-Lár Tíre – review
HALF not only explores the halfway point in these students paths, but the halfway point society is existing between. (●●●●○) Continue reading HALF – review
O’Malley’s work is the outcome of the visible grappling with the invisible, each piece seemingly emerging as a product of this antithesis. (●●●●●) Continue reading Niamh O’Malley at Douglas Hyde Gallery – review
