VAN September/October 2013: Critique Supplement | Helen O’Leary at Catherine...
Helen O’Leary A small place to do nothing, 2013, wood construction and egg oil, 32 x 32 x 5 cm Helen O’Leary ‘Irregular Activity’ Catherine Hammond Gallery, Glengarriff, West Cork July 19 – 15 August...
View ArticleVAN September/October 2013: Critique Supplement: ‘New Irish Works’,...
Eithne O’regan, Plane, from the series ‘Any moment Now’, 2012, all images courtesy of PhotoIreland ‘New Irish Works’ PhotoIreland 2013 Published July 2013 ISBN 978-0-9576849-0-4 PhotoIreland 2013...
View ArticleVAN September/October 2013: Critique Supplement: ‘The Drawing Box’, Ranelagh...
Yashwant Deshmuhk, work from ‘The Drawing Box’, pencil on card ‘The Drawing Box’ Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin 18 July – 17 August ‘The Drawing Box’ is the brainchild of Outland Arts member Diane...
View ArticleVAN November/December 2013: Critique Supplement – Cora Cummins ‘The Black...
Cora Cummins, Pool, HD video, 2013 Cora Cummins ‘The Black Rose, The Green Pool and The Blue Sky’ Visual, Carlow 05 October – 05 January In her book ‘The Artificial Kingdom’, the writer Celeste...
View ArticleVAN November/December 2013: Critique Supplement: Sculpture in Context at...
Evelina Wojtowicz, Nothing Softer Than Water, Ceramic ‘Sculpture in Context’ National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin 5 September – 18 October 2013 Stationed in the verdant surroundings of the National...
View ArticleVAN November/December 2013: Critique Supplement –‘Labour and Lockout …’,...
Megs Morley & Tom Flanagan, The Question of Ireland, 2013 ‘Labour and Lockout …’ Limerick City Gallery of Art 9 August – 1 October 2013 ‘Labour and Lockout …’ formed part of a nationwide,...
View ArticleVAN November/December 2013: Critique Supplement –‘False Memory Syndrome’ at...
installation view ‘False memory Syndrome’ TBG+S (forground to background. left to right) works by Sarah pierce, Alan phelan and micheal Boran. ‘False Memory Syndrome’ Michael Boran, Sabina McMahon,...
View ArticleVAN November/December 2013: Critique Supplement –‘Death Drive’ at Galway Arts...
Installation view of Siobhan Mcgibbon, What’s between our legs ain’t no bodies business but ours and Stine Marie Jacobsen, It’s less an edit afterwards if you edit while you shoot, image by Aisling...
View ArticleVAN November/December 2013: Critique Supplement –‘Alphabet’, West Cork Arts...
Sylvia Taylor, E For Evening Echo, 2013 ‘Alphabet’ 21 September – 09 November 2013 West Cork Arts Centre As a research exercise, I asked a child, an adult and an artist to recite the alphabet,...
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Mick Kelly and Istvan Laszlo. Luas Docklands Public Art Commission.Installed August 2013. Commissioned by the RPA, and managed by VisualArtists Ireland. CONTENTS 5.Roundup. Recent exhibitions and...
View Article‘In Other Words’’ Lewis Glucksman Gallery 22 July – 30 October 2011
‘In Other Words’, the group exhibition at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, transforms the 26 letters of the alphabet into fugitive non-conformists. Neon letters cling indecipherably to a wall, three-...
View ArticleVAN January/February 2014: ‘Sustaining the Ephemeral’, El Putnam Discusses...
VAI Professional Development Masterclass with Nigel Rolfe at the Dublin LiveArt Festival 2013, photo by Fiona Killeen EL PUTNAM DISCUSSES VISUAL ARTISTS IRELAND’S PRESENTATION OF A MASTERCLASS BY NIGEL...
View ArticleVAN January/February 2014: ‘Held Captive by the Site’, Sarah Allen Profiles...
Neil Carroll, An exhumation of the wreck of hope (no Man is an island),2013, Artlot, Dublin PROFILE: ART IN THE PUBLIC REALM ‘HELD CAPTIVE BY THE SITE’ SARAH ALLEN PROFILES ‘ART LOT’, A PROGRAMME OF...
View ArticleVAN Jan/Feb 2014: Rebecca Strain, ‘Snooping and Shooting in the Dark’
Column: Making It REBECCA STRAIN SNOOPING & SHOOTING IN THE DARK “Meaningless work is potentially the most abstract, concrete, individual, foolish, indeterminate, exactly determined, varied,...
View ArticleVAN Jan/Feb 2014: Emily Mark Fitzgerald – A Special Beauty in all that is...
Rachel Joynt, Noah’s Egg, 2004. Veterinary building, UCD Belfield, Co. Dublin Column EMILY MARK FITZGERALD A SPECIAL BEAUTY IN ALL THAT IS GOODLY … In making his case for the importance of liberal...
View ArticleVAN Jan/Feb 2014: Lisa Fingleton Reports on her Participation in a Workshop...
Lisa Fingleton, ‘What Goes Around’, video still WORKSHOP PROFILE: INTENTION, THEN INTERPRETATION LISA FINGLETON REPORTS ON HER PARTICIPATION IN A 10-DAY WORKSHOP WITH SHIRIN NESHAT AT THE LONDON FILM...
View ArticleVAN Jan/Feb 2014: Jason Oakley Reflects on ‘Arts Awards: Prizes! Prizes!’, A...
AMBIVILANT SPECTACLE? JASON OAKLEY REFLECTS ON ‘ARTS AWARDS: PRIZES! PRIZES! PRIZES!’, A TALK ORGANISED BY VAI IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE 2013 TURNER PRIZE AND HOSTED BY THE GOLDEN THREAD GALLERY, BELFAST...
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Mark Swords, Reflections and Variations, 14 September 2013, RedcrossWoods. Presented as part of ‘I wont say I will see you tomorrow’ amulti-disciplinary project exploring the legacy of...
View ArticleVAN Critique Jan/Feb 2014: ‘Common Ground’ at Occupy Space, Limerick
Fiona Woods, Post Art Condition, 2013 ‘Common Ground’ Occupy Space, Limerick (Aine Phillips, Amanda Dunsmore, Deirdre O’Mahony, Fiona Woods & Sean Taylor) 8 – 30 November 2013 Ground Up Artists...
View ArticleVAN Critique Jan/Feb 2014: ‘The Work of Micheal Farrell’ Crawford Gallery, Cork
Micheal Farrell (1940 – 2000), Man Lost in a Glass of Water, 1978, © The Micheal Farrell Estate ‘The Work of Micheal Farrell’ Crawford Gallery, Cork 9 November 2013 – 4 January 2014 This exhibition,...
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