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Paul Gregg’s Amorphous, 2006, plastic and helium: at the RHA Gallagher Gallery

Clay as material and strange contraptions

Aidan Dunne
September 27, 2016

Vanessa Donoso López and Paul Gregg offer intriguing and conceptual artistic visions

Emma Sheridan’s paintings grew from a panoply of anxieties after she was the victim of a random shooting in a London tube station. “As soon as I knew I’d been shot, my imagination kicked off. My mind spiralled, and the world suddenly became a really scary place.”

How being shot in the back inspired an Irish artist’s painting

Gemma Tipton
September 23, 2016

'I thought I was dying.' When Emma Sheridan was the victim of a random shooting in London, she used painting to help her heal

Detail from Lacken Series: Cowslips, 2016 by Patrick Graham

Paintings of ferocious engagement

Aidan Dunne
September 20, 2016

Two Irish artists impress in iconoclastic paintings and a 1916-related video installation

From a design perspective, a remarkable aspect of the objects depicted is how little they have changed for more than a century. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

Saintly designs: How Knock became a shrine to statues

Lisa Godson
September 17, 2016

‘Strange Occurrences in a Small Irish Village’ shows the power of religious iconography

Shelly McNamara and Yvonne Farrell, of Grafton Architects, at their office in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Architects - They’re not just for the rich

Arminta Wallace
September 16, 2016

For Yvonne Farrell and Shelly McNamara of Grafton Architects, good design is about making a community

David Hockney’s primary insinct seems always to be to produce work: ‘Self portrait’ 1954, collage on newsprint; ‘Margaret Hockney’ 2008, inkjet printed computer drawing on paper

Visual Art: David Hockney’s Belfast show is modest in scale but ambitious in scope

Aidan Dunne
September 13, 2016

MAC exhibition, a first for Ireland, is a fine collection with a focus on drawing

‘White is the most wonderful colour of all, because within it one can find every colour of the rainbow,’ said architect Richard Meier. That’s all very well until you’re trying to keep it clean

Gemma Tipton: Art imitates life, and life messes up art

Gemma Tipton
September 10, 2016

Nothing clutters up an architect’s vision quite like people and their things

Lough Boora Discovery Park, Co Offaly

Lough Boora among ‘best sculpture parks in Europe’

Damian Cullen
September 8, 2016

Co Offaly sculpture park ‘pays homage to our human interaction with the boglands’

Detail from Mary (2014) by Alec Soth. Courtesy of the artist

People in the picture: ‘We are all part of the human comedy’

Aidan Dunne
September 6, 2016

Photographer Alec Soth, who was a painfully shy teenager, has gone on to produce one of the most socially engaged bodies of work in existence

Coast Scene with Europa and the Bull (1634) by Claude Lorrain. Copyright National Gallery of Ireland

The Lalor print collection gets a rare run-out at the National Gallery

Aidan Dunne
August 30, 2016

You are unlikely to see so much of this collection again, so make a point of visiting. Plus: a new show by painter Ian Cumberland is unsettling and compelling

Location, location, location: If a midrise building is appropriate for Ballymun why is it not for, say, Donnybrook?

In the Dublin high-rise debate, size matters less than quality

Paul Keogh
August 27, 2016

The deciding factor in any development should be the character it contributes to its place

Portarlington, Co Laois: The letters on the seats in the stand read ‘PORT’, local slang for the town. The industrial building overlooking the pitch is an Odlum’s factory. “The two guys look like they’ve become almost symbiotic being together. It was taken in February and you’ve got that grey start to a league campaign feeling,” he says.

Why I secretly photographed GAA pitches for seven years

Paul Fitzpatrick
August 27, 2016

Paul Carroll travelled 31,000 miles to capture the seasonal changes of GAA for a book

Untitled by Paul Doran (2016)

Paul Doran in Dublin: You won't see a livelier display of painting all year

Aidan Dunne
August 23, 2016

Plus: Finnish women let us into their lives with humour

A Jack B Yeats painting owned by the late David Bowie is to be auctioned soon. Sleep Sound, an oil-on-canvas measuring 18x 24 inches, has been valued at up to £180,000 (€208,000) and is to be sold by Sotheby’s in London in November.

Jack B Yeats painting owned by David Bowie to be auctioned

Michael Parsons
August 22, 2016

‘Sleep Sound’ oil-on-canvas valued at up to £180,000 to be sold by Sotheby’s in November

The Liffey Swim by Jack B Yeats (1923), which won a silver medal at the Paris Olympics of 1924. Photograph: National Gallery of Ireland

How corruption and nepotism brought down Olympic artistic games

Seamas O'Reilly
August 18, 2016

For more than three decades the Olympics ran artistic competitions in tandem with the games, with several familiar Irish winners. But the competition was derailed by accusations of corruption, nepotism and an apathetic organising committee

Triptych from The Viewing of Six New Works by Michael Snow. Copyright Michael Snow. Courtesy the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery and Butler Gallery. Photograph: Roland Paschoff

A chance to see through Michael Snow’s influential eyes

Aidan Dunne
August 16, 2016

The Canadian artist sets his sights on Kilkenny; and Damien Flood is like a Miró in Dún Laoghaire

‘A Fair Day’ from ‘So near and so far’, an exhibition of photographic prints by world-renowned British photographer Martin Parr at Roscommon Arts Centre. Photograph: Martin Parr/Magnum Photos

1980s Ireland revisited in exhibition by top photographer

Hugh Linehan
August 12, 2016

Martin Parr’s evocative images recall rural life at pivotal time of changing values

Frontier (2016) by Michael John Whelan

A remote part of Norway where life is kept frozen

Aidan Dunne
August 9, 2016

Artist Michael John Whelan is continuously drawn to the world’s most northerly settlement of more than 1,000 people

Maser’s mural, which has since been removed, outside Project Arts Centre in Dublin. Photograph: Enda O’Dowd

Why I stand over the Repeal the 8th mural on Project’s wall

Cian O'Brien
August 5, 2016

What is surprising is that some citizens believe art should or can only be neutral, says the artistic director of Project Arts Centre

Hurling in Central Park, New York. Photograph: Kevin Bulger

Sheep thrills, deer at dusk and a hurler in New York

August 5, 2016

It’s week two of our Summer Pix 16 competition in association with Harvey Norman, and we have received some crackers. Keep clicking

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