In The Land of Tib and TomStephan Brandes, Colin Crotty, Gabhann Dunne, Martin Healy, and Eithne JordanRubicon ProjectsIrish Georgian Society, Dublin15 – 31 May 2014 Installation view Detail of Stephan Brandes Stephan Brandes Gabhann Dunne Martin Healy Martin Healy Colin Crotty Eithne Jordan
INTERVIEW: Anna O’Sullivan – The Enclave (Part 2)
An interview with Anna O’Sullivan by Jim Ricks, commissioner/curator of The Enclave by Richard Mosse Part 2 of a 3 part series on Ireland at Venice 2013 http://www.marycremin.com/richard-mosse-the-enclave/ Can you tell us a little about the process of selection for you as the commissioner/curator? Were you nominated separately? The Commissioner/Curator and the artist is a team effort with the Commissioner/Curator putting the artist forward. Richard and I came together and worked on an application initially, got shortlisted to one of four teams, which was followed… Read More »
The Enclave (Part 1)
The Enclave by Richard Mosse Curated by Anna O’Sullivan Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin February – March 2014 Review by Darren Caffrey Part 1 of a 3 part series on Ireland at Venice 2013 The Enclave in the RHA consisted of a video installation and a small selection of exceptionally large examples of landscape photography. Each reflecting an apparent pastoral craze in retro active colour changing film, taking as a setting the various advantages of light and dark. The show is over but its showing and… Read More »
Images: Fuckier, Shittier, Pissier
Lord God, how immaculate (2014) – Simon Cummins Lapiss Lazuli (2014) – Aoife Mullan Whats his name (2013) – Stéphane Hanley Q Lauzarus Rising (2014) – Mike Fitzgerald R to L: Things don’t happen they’re implied (2013), For a long time, I went to bed early (2014), Either it’s raining, or I’m dreaming. Maybe it’s both (2014), A ‘resistance of yes’, of sorts (2014) – Lee Welch, and Whats his name (2013) – Stéphane Hanly At the horizon we won’t need eyes to… Read More »
Balls
Balls NCAD SU XXX-Mas Ball Image-Gate By Jim Ricks 30 March 2014 So there was this ‘something’ that happened up at NCAD in December, and it’s worth having a second look at. It is the kind of thing that one may say ‘I’m over it’. But, a number of interesting and important issues: politics, semiotics, feminism, pornography, power, all immediately come to mind. I was reflecting on Panti Bliss’s speech at the Abbey Theatre, and the simple and invaluable point she makes…. Read More »
REVIEW: Leonora Carrington: The Celtic Surrealist
“The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope”(1) – Leonora Carrington What a fantastical world we expose when we penetrate the depth of our unconscious and concurrently the zenith of our imagination. Can any of us say for certain which is felt to be more consistent with that of ‘the real’: the structures of the conscious mind, or “…the unconscious and its – for the most… Read More »
Installation view of ‘Star Wars’
Installation view of Star WarsThe Institute of Jamais Vu Basic Space, DublinFebruary 2014
Installation view of ‘a lamb lies down’
Installation view of a lamb lies downCurated by Paul HallahanBroadstone StudiosNovember 2013 Installation view of David Eager Maher’s work.
Images: more adventurous thinking…
http://www.ncad.ie/gallery-event/view/more-adventurous-thinking more adventurous thinking… from the archive of Dorothy Walker, with artist’s response from Seamus Nolan NCAD Gallery 15th June – 7th October 2013
McCarty and Kensmil at the RHA
Hard-Keepers by Marlene McCarty & Crying Light by Natasja Kensmil Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin 5 September – 20 October 2013 Review by Darren Caffrey Does anything frighten us like the merest sight of our own reflection? Terror comes of a story told to scare, equally the frame of art is no hiding place from the horrors of life. It could be, but artists don’t want it that way. Indeed fear is often as compelling as the lure of success. And so it is with two… Read More »
Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland & Eigse
Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland Isabel Nolan, Stephen McKenna, Poly Morgan, Dan Hays, Alex Rose, Djordje Ozbolt, Ben Long, Francis Upritchard, Yuriy Norshteyn, Martin Healyand Garrett Phelan. Curated by Stephen Brandes & Eigse Carlow Arts Festival 2013 Visual Art Open Submission 66 individual works selected by Stephen McKenna PPRHA & Emilia Stein RHA VISUAL, Carlow 7 June – 8 September 2013 Review by Darren Caffrey In the local sense, festivals and their associate art trails follow the scent of remuneration. Art spaces are key… Read More »
Images from Dublin Degree Shows 2013
Images from Dublin Degree Shows 2013 BA graduates from DIT, IADT, DIT Photography, and NCAD Various locations in Dublin Photos by Jim Ricks DIT Sarah Doherty Órla Phelan Andy McNulty Conor O’Grady (both) Marie Farrington IADT Janna Kemperman Declan Graham Louise Roe (both) Sam O’Neill DIT PHOTO Ciaran Cooney Neil Dorgan Barry Keogh Installation view Robert McCormack NCAD Stephane Hanly Alan Swaine (both) Eoghan McIntyre (both) Michelle Doyle Nigel Holohan (both) Aoife Mullan Muriel Foxton Cara Coyle Melanie Spendlove Holy Ingram Michael Dignam Sean Wright Roisin McCashin Andrew… Read More »
Ultra-Left Destruction
The position I outline here is my own position only. It is based on my experience as a left-wing activist at national and international level over 50 years. It is my personal response to current disunity on the left. Competitive recruitment between the Socialist Party (SP) and the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) has destroyed the United Left Alliance (ULA) and is now narrowing the Campaign against Household and Water Taxes (CAHWT) to such an extent as to make it ineffective. The number of people… Read More »
As uneasy as 1,2,3: A review of three per4mances
As uneasy as 1, 2, 3: A review of three per4mances Project Arts Centre and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 11 – 12 April 2013 By Darren Caffrey 1. May I Draw Your Eyes by Fergus Byrne as part of Between You Me and The Four Walls May I Draw Your Eyes, the first work of this series hosted by The Project Arts Centre, saw Byrne seated in a wooden construct similar to that from which the devil plays his best… Read More »
Images from ’10th President’
10th PresidentSeamus NolanTemple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin12 April – 08 June 2013
Write Makes Right
Write Makes Right A conversation between Darren Caffrey and Jim Ricks Autumn – Winter 2012 DC: So how do you want to start? JR: The point is just to write truthfully in correspondence about what we see as the shortcomings, pitfalls, success stories, etc. taking place in Irish arts writing. I think the attached graph that James Merrigan of Billion Art Journal and Fugitive Papers produced a little over a year ago is an interesting starting point. I immediately countered his graph… Read More »
REVIEW: TULCA 2012
The 2012 Tulca: Season of Visual Art was the tenth anniversary of Galway’s 2 week, multi-location event. Always in mid November, it utilises existing arts infrastructure and activates a variety of disused ‘slack spaces’ or rather vacant buildings and shops. This year was no different as the exhibitions bring “together 41 artists over 10 locations.” I had lived in the west of Ireland for about 6 years and know the festival somewhat intimately. I exhibited in 2006, the year Cliodhna Shaffrey and Sarah… Read More »
Images: In the Black
David Nugent Jonathan Mayhew Darren Caffrey Sara Amido Emma Haugh In the Black Sara Amido, Darren Caffrey, Emma Haugh, Jonathan Mayhew, David Nugent, and more. Curated by Matt Packer and The Black Mariah The Black Mariah Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland 21 October – 3 November 2012
Images: Towards a Newer Laocoön
Towards a Newer Laocoön Sarah Pierce NCAD Gallery, Dublin 4 October – 7 November 2012
The future
Futures 2012 is joyously mixed in its form and yet it is this distraction which when presented to us is hoped will overcome the obvious weaknesses of art without proper framing or even depth. On one wall sits the result of a routine investigation into the world outside of a window, Ed Miliano “began making a visual diary, painting one picture every day”, and to that end, judging by the quantity, he has succeeded. It is identified that the pictures when viewed together ‘create a collective… Read More »