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Floating Stones, from Silva 2018, a site-responsive residency and exhibition at Knockomagh Wood nature reserve by Lough Hyne, west Cork. Photograph Fellipe Lopes

Wild at art: The edgy arts residencies of Lay of the Land

Manchán Magan
August 22, 2019

‘Our aim is to drive the experience of art outwards into the wild landscape of this island’

Nathaniel Hone the Younger, A View of Cliffs, Etretat, Oil on canvasPhotograph: National Gallery of Ireland

Nathaniel Hone: A puzzle in the history of Irish art

Aidan Dunne
August 20, 2019

The exhibition Travels of a Landscape Artist has a nagging sense of what might have been

Michael Cullen’s Studio Scene with Still Life and Irises, an oil on linen, 45cm x 50cm painting at Taylor Galleries

Art in Focus: Michael Cullen – Studio Scene with Still Life and Irises

Aidan Dunne
August 17, 2019

Wicklow artist’s vibrant still life displays a keen appreciation of the daily studio routine – and much else

Screenprint by Frea Buckler from the Graphic Studio Gallery Summer Show Robert Ryan, Guardian, 2019. Limerick City Gallery of Art

The best art exhibitions of the week

Aidan Dunne
August 17, 2019

Scottish colourists, crises of our times and allegorical landscape paintings

Fisherman of Valencia (Pescador de Valencia), 1904. Oil on canvas, Private Collection. Photograph: Laura Cohen.National Gallery of Ireland

Sorolla: A master of light comes back out of the shadows

Aidan Dunne
August 15, 2019

An exhibition at the National Gallery aims to revive the Spanish painter’s reputation

Nestor juxtaposes imagery from Monte Cassino in the 1940s with photographs from today

Destruction, loss and recovery at Italy’s Monte Cassino

Aidan Dunne
August 13, 2019

Aidan Dunne: Steven Nestor’s photo book on the Italian battle site, then and now

Untitled (barrier), mixed media, and Shelf, mixed media, both 2019, installation view of Niamh O’Malley’s exhibition at St Carthage Hall, Lismore, Co Waterford. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh

Art in Focus: Untitled (barrier) and Shelf (2019) – Niamh O’Malley

Aidan Dunne
August 10, 2019

Mayo artist’s work prompts us to consider the nuts and bolts – and limits – of perception

The Ó Raghallaigh family. From Kate Nolan’s portraits of musicians taking part in Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2018. At Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Co Louth

The best art exhibitions from around the country

Aidan Dunne
August 10, 2019

A range of works to explore in Louth, Roscommon, Cork, Dublin and Belfast

Pilvi Takala The Stroker (still), 2018, 14:26 minutes, two-channel video installation. Courtesy Helsinki Contemporary, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam and Carlos/Ishikawa, London.

The performance artist presenting candid camera as art

Aidan Dunne
August 6, 2019

This Finnish artist’s performance films interrogate codes and rules of social interactions

Detail of Sean Scully, Inisheer, 1996, oil on linen, 91.5 x 91.5cm, 36 x 36 ins (courtesy Kerlin Gallery)

Art in Focus: Sean Scully – Inisheer

Aidan Dunne
August 3, 2019

Best known as a painter of stripes Scully’s stark painting vividly evokes a rugged island

Cork Printmakers Popup, The Project Twins, Risograph Print 1, Triskel

The best visual arts shows to see this week

Aidan Dunne
August 3, 2019

Including Eilish McCann in Cavan, Cork Printmakers Pop-up and Fenderesky show

Amy Cutler: Above the Fjord (2010), at the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny

Washing lines and magical hair: Amy Cutler’s modern fairy tales

Aidan Dunne
August 3, 2019

The American’s art, on show in Kilkenny, evokes the rules that confine women’s lives

When Joseph Walsh began working on his new series, using indigenous Irish timber, he ran up against an unexpected problem: Ireland’s smaller sawmills are in decline. Photograph: Andrew Bradley

‘Developing appreciation can slow down the incredible race to consume’

Gemma Tipton
August 1, 2019

Master craftsman Joseph Walsh suggests a different and inspiring idea of culture

Kim Gordon: ‘I’m always kind of interested in that relationship between art and design, kind of symbiotic.’ Photograph: David Black

Kim Gordon: ‘I never think of myself as famous – I’m barely famous’

Gemma Tipton
July 31, 2019

The Sonic Youth co-founder on her new exhibition at IMMA, her relationship with fame, the changing face of feminism and her strange fascination with Airbnb

nagOffsite Rathfarnham Castle, installation view, work by Roseanna Lynch and items from John Hutchinson’s collection. Photograph: Mark St John Ellis

Object lessons in skilful juxtaposition of things

Aidan Dunne
July 30, 2019

Over three exhibitions, nag’s Mark St John Ellis weaves together East and West, painting and ceramics. The results are nothing less than intriguing

Have you seen this painting? Girl in the Sand (1950) is one of the ‘lost’ works by Una Watters

In search of Una Watters and her ‘lost’ paintings

Mary Morrissy
July 30, 2019

Many works by the Irish artist, born in 1918, have disappeared

Wilhelmina Weber Furlong, Still life, New York c1915-1921

Wilhelmina Weber-Furlong: pioneering American modernist painter

Aidan Dunne
July 27, 2019

After nearly a century of neglect, her work is on show in a new exhibition in Dublin

Eva Rothschild with her sculpture Amphi (resin, fibreglass, wood, spray paint, dimensions variable), 2019 Photograph: Robert Glowacki

Art in Focus – Eva Rothschild with her work Amphi

Aidan Dunne
July 27, 2019

Ireland’s show at the Venice Biennale reflects an uneasy world

‘View of the Sea’, oil on board, 24.5 x 41 cm, 2018, Ann Quinn, Custom House Gallery, Westport

Five best art exhibitions to see this week

Aidan Dunne
July 27, 2019

Ann Quinn paintings, The Stroker, Flux in Flow

The Jack B Yeats painting.

The Liffey Swim: How Jack B Yeats and his painting won an Olympic medal for Ireland

Liam Ryan
July 27, 2019

To celebrate the 100th Liffey Swim, An Post is releasing a stamp featuring Yeats’s painting

‘Between water and clouds’, woodcut by Jelena Sredanovic

Galway festival offers impressive art in occasionally underwhelming displays

Aidan Dunne
July 23, 2019

Galway International Arts Festival 2019 largely overcomes issues with venues

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