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VAN Critique Jan/Feb 2014: Mary Burke ‘Memory Traces’ at Draiocht, Dublin
Mary Burke, Above, oil pastel on canvas, 60 cm x 120 cm Mary Burke ‘Memory Traces’ Draiocht, Dublin 23 November 2013 – 1 February 2014 Looking out the window of the bus to Blanchardstown, you see...
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VAN Critique Jan/Feb 2014: Sinead Rice, Flowers Gallery, London
Installation view ‘Small is Beautiful: Who’s Afraid of red Yellow & Blue’ Courtesy Flowers Gallery Sinead Rice ‘Small is Beautiful: Who’s Afraid of Red Yellow & Blue’ Flowers Gallery, London 3...
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VAN March / April 2014
Cover image: Jackie Nickerson, Oscar, 2012, digital c-print, 86 5/8 x 70 7/8 inches (edition of 2 + AP) 59 x 47 1⁄4 inches (edition of 3 + AP), image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery,...
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VAN Critique March/April 2014: Kevin Mooney at Talbot Gallery
Kevin mooney Mounds oil on canvas 95x80cm ‘Dog Island Tales’ Kevin Mooney 6 – 27 February 2014 Talbot Gallery, Dublin KevIn Mooney’s exhibition ‘Dog Island Tales’ straddles itself somewhere between...
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VAN Critique March/April 2014: Gráinne Bird at Higher Bridges Gallery
Gráinne Bird, work from ‘Hirsute’, Higher Bridges Gallery ‘Hirsute’ Gráinne Bird Higher Bridges Gallery, Enniskillen 6 February – 8 March 2014 Hair salons and barbershops do not often act as art supply...
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VAN Critique March/April 2014: Paul Quast at Luan Gallery
Paul Quast, E = €, 2014, image courtesy of Paul Quast and Jason Reilly ‘DE_Cline ’ Paul Quast luan Gallery, Athlone. 17 January – 16 March 2014 Paul Quast exhibits a large body of work in the New...
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VAN Critique: March/April 2014: Feriel Bendjama at The Return, Goethe-Institut
Feriel Bendjama, work from ‘We, They and I’, The Return, Goethe-InstitutIrland (16 Jan – 17 April 2014), courtesy of the artist Feriel Bendjama ‘We, They and I’ 16 January – 17 April 2014 The Return,...
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VAN Critique March/April 2014: Jackie Nickerson at Jack Shainman Gallery, New...
Jackie Nickerson Propagation Shed, 2013 digital c-print 68 x 85 inches (Edition of 2 + AP) 38 1/2 x 48 inches (Edition of 3 + AP) Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York Jackie...
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VAN Critique March/April 2014: Jaki Irvine at Frith Street Gallery, London
Jaki Irvine, Shot in Mexico. On the Impossibility of Imagining the Numbers of Dead and Disappeared, 2014, wallpaper and set of 20 archival pigment prints on Hahnemühle paper, dimensions variable,...
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VAN Critique May/June 2014: Dorothy Cross at Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery,...
Dorothy Cross, Shark-Heart Submarine, 2011, 19th century oak painters easel, model submarine, laminated wood, oil-gilded in white gold, shark’s heart in glass jar with alcohol, dimensions variable...
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VAN Critique May/June 2014: Patrick Altes at Triskel, Cork
Patrick Altes, The Process of Civilisation Patrick Altes ‘A Story of Revolutions’ Triskel, Cork 14 March – 20 April 2014 Connections between writing and image are a major component in Altes’s...
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VAN Critique May/June 2014: Ailbhe Barrett and Joan Sugrue at The Courthouse...
Ailbhe Barrett, -10 C, Oil on Canvas, 30 ins x 40 inches ‘Overworlds’ New Work by Ailbhe Barrett and Joan Sugrue The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon 14 March – 3 April In We Have Never Been Modern, the...
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VAN Critique May/June 2014: Richard Gilligan at The Copperhouse Gallery, Dublin
Richard Gilligan Warsaw, Poland Richard Gilligan ‘DIY’ The Copperhouse Gallery, Dublin 13 March – 3 April Secluded down a quiet laneway off Synge Street, Dublin the ‘Copper House’ is wrapped in thin...
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VAN Critique May/June 2014: Robert Kelly at Droichead Arts Centre
Robert Kelly, The Space Between With Triangles Robert Kelly ‘Interconnectedness’ Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda 9 March – 25 April ‘Interconnectedness’, the title of Robert Kelly’s exhibition of...
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VAN May / June 2014
Cover: Locky Morris, Dead On, dead elm tree, audio, Brooke Park, Derry, VOID Sites Artists’ Gardens commission (December 2013 – Spring 2014). Photo Paola Bernardelli, treatment by Joe Coll...
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VAN July / August 2014
Cover: Tom Climent, Acrobat, oil on canvas, 30×30 cm CONTENTS: 5. Column. Treasa O’Brien. Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A. 6. Column. Boredom, Compulsion & Anxiety. Mark Fisher. 7. Column. Constructing...
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VAN Critique July/August 2014: ‘Re-Framing the Domestic in Irish Art’ at...
Janet Mullarney, Domestic Gods II, 1998, wood, plaster, wallpaper, mixedmedia ‘Re-Framing the Domestic in Irish Art’ Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Co Louth 29 April – August 2014 Paintings from...
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VAN Critique July/August 2014: Kennedy Browne at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Kennedy Browne The Myth of the Many in the One. Image © Kennedy Browne, photo © Jed Niezgoda, installation at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork ‘The Myth of the Many and the One’ Kennedy Browne The Myth of...
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VAN Critique July/August 2014: Susan Connolly at The MAC, Belfast
Susan Connolly Something About Some Thing To Do With Paint 9 May – 22 June The MAC, Belfast For work so rooted in surface and medium, Susan Connolly’s ‘Something About Some Thing To Do With Paint’...
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VAN Critique July/August 2014: Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery,...
Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh ‘Contours’ Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin 01 May – 23 May Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh’s showing at the Kevin Kavanagh gallery reveals the latest phase in her dynamically evolving practice....
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