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...
View ArticleVAN 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’...
View ArticleVAN 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....
View ArticleVAN Critique July/August 2014: Nickey Teegan and Conor Mary Foy at NCAD...
Nicky Teegan and Conor Mary Foy ‘At dawn we will stand in a circle, as the sun rises it will renew the souls of the pure’ installation view. NCAD Gallery, Dublin, photo by Barry Keogh Nicky Teegan and...
View ArticleVAN September/ October 2014
Cover Image. Eva Rothschild, installation view, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2014. All works © Eva Rothschild. Courtesy of Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, The...
View ArticleVAN Critique Sept/Oct 2014: Graham Gingles at The MAC, Belfast
Graham Gingles, ‘At Times Like These Men Were Wishing They Were All Kinds of Insects’, The MAC, Belfast, 2014 Graham Gingles ‘At times like these men were wishing they were all kinds of insects’ The...
View ArticleVAN Critique Sept/Oct 2014: Marilyn Lerner at Butler Gallery
Maria Lerner, ‘Centre Point’, 2011, oil on wood Marilyn Lerner Circle in the Square Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny 9 August – 5 October 2014 For artist Marilyn Lerner New York is a frenetic city...
View ArticleVAN Critique Sept/Oct 2014: ‘The Starry Messenger: Seven Artist Filmmakers’,...
Live projections as part of ‘Starry Messenger’ at Void, Derry. Image by Paola Bernadelli ‘The Starry Messenger: Seven Artist Filmmakers’ 5 Aug – 26 Sept 2014 VOID, Derry Marika Borgeson, Janine...
View ArticleVAN Critique Sept/Oct 2014: Caoimhe Kilfeather at Temple Bar Gallery
Camille KIlfeather, ‘This Attentive Place’, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, 2014 Caoimhe Kilfeather ‘This Attentive Place’ Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin 20 June – 20 August 2014 Caoimhe Kilfeather seems...
View ArticleVAN Critique Sept/Oct 2014: Eva Rothschild at Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane
Eva Rothschild, installation view, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, 2014. All works © Eva Rothschild. Courtesy of Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London, Galerie Eve Presenhuber, Zurich, The Modern...
View ArticleVAN November / December 2014
Phillip Napier Soon ‘These Immovable Walls: Performing Power’ Dublin Castle 11 – 12 June 2014. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Joseph Carr CONTENTS:5. Roundup. Recent exhibitions and projects of...
View ArticleVAN January / February 2015
Cover Image. Nom Nom Collective, Ropey Smurf , paint and ink on repurposed album cover. 5. Roundup. Recent exhibitions and projects of note.5. Column. Jonathan Carroll. Fag Ends.6. Column. Linda...
View ArticleVAN Critique Jan/Feb 2015: ‘Studies on Shivering’, Damir Očko at Temple Bar...
Installation View of ‘Studies on Shivering’ at TBG+S, 2014 Damir Očko Studies on Shivering 21 November 2014 – 24 January 2015 Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin The clear and ordered manner in...
View ArticleVAN Critique Jan/Feb 2015: ‘Uchronia’, Sinead McDonald at Draiocht
Sinead McDonald ‘Self Portrait If I Hadn’t Walked Home Via Camden Street in 1989′ Sinead McDonald Uchronia 28 November – 7 February 2015Draiocht, Blanchardstown, Co. Dublin Artist Sinéad McDonald does...
View ArticleVAN Critique Jan/Feb 2015: Debra Bowden ‘Beginnings’ at the Toradh Gallery
Debra Bowden, ‘Cave V11′, 2013, pigment, oil bar and mica on paper Debra BowdenBeginnings 17 November – 16 December 2014 Toradh Gallery, Ashbourne, Meath Cows. Why are they such a popular subject for...
View ArticleVAN Critique Jan/Feb 2015: ‘Art & Activism’– Published by Fire Station...
Speakers at the Fire Station Artists’ Studios seminar, 2014 Book Review / Anne Mullee Art & Activism Editors: Liz Burns and Clodagh Kenny Published November 2014 The latest publication from Fire...
View ArticleVAN Critique Jan/Feb 2015: Nom Nom Collective at White Lady Art
Ropey Smurf, paint and ink on repurposed album cover Nom Nom Collective ‘Nomstalgia’ White Lady Art Wellington Quay, Dublin 29 Nov – 23 Dec 2014 The Nom Nom Collective comprises eight artists who have...
View ArticleVAN March/April 2015
Cover Image. Amanda Ralph, Paper Boats, River Brosna, Clara 2000. Public Art Commission for Offaly Co. Council. Re-installed at Lough Boora in 2014. 1. Cover Image. Amanda Ralph, Paper Boats, River...
View ArticleVAN Critique March/April 2015: Teresa Gillespie at Wexford Arts Centre
Teresa Gillespie, below explanation (clocks stop at 3pm and existence continues), mixed media with found objects and video, 2014/15 Teresa Gillespie ‘below explanation (clocks stop at 3pm and...
View ArticleVAN Critique March/April 2015: Sabina Mac Mahon at Belfast Exposed...
Maimie Campbell, The Death of Cuchulainn, 1929, tempera on board 67 x 55 cm Sabina Mac Mahon‘An Ulaid – South Down Society of Modern Art’ Belfast Exposed and Queen Street Studios, Belfast 16 January –...
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