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‘Light Painting, Orange’ (detail), mixed media, Catherine Owens (Oliver Sears Gallery).

Art in Focus: ‘Light Painting, Orange’ (detail), by Catherine Owens

Aidan Dunne
July 14, 2018

Fusing traditional media and recent technology, Owens reflects on constancy in a changing world

Exposure: Maureen O’Neill, Custom House Studios Gallery

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Aidan Dunne
July 14, 2018

Works from Dan Graham, Maureen O’ Neill, Maureen O’ Connor and Kelvin Mann

Kathlyn Owens, Maser, and Alex Aleande from Clay Youth Project, Crumlin. Photograph: Naoise Culhane

Maser video: Watch his latest artwork take shape in Crumlin

Anna Joyce
July 11, 2018

Watch the creation of the artist’s latest work – a collaborative mural at a Crumlin youth project

David Mach working on his installation Rock’n’Roll. Photograph: Andrew Downes

David Mach: ‘I feel that I need to fight something’

Gemma Tipton
July 11, 2018

The Scot rails against aspects of modern life as he brings his big, pugilistic art to Galway

'A Visibility Matrix' is 'a synchronised, multi-channel video installation' but its point is not to, say, showcase an expansive range of video work, and it’s not a greatest hits collection

Video thrills on the electronic super highways

Aidan Dunne
July 10, 2018

In 'A Visibility Matrix', Sven Anderson and Gerard Byrne search for a path out of the online video jungle

Travelling in a Strange Land: I force myself to look at it, try to think of some prayer to say but no words come. Photograph by Sonya Whitefield

David Park: How my latest novel became a photography exhibition

David Park
July 7, 2018

Sonya Whitefield’s responses to my writing see the mystery at the core of our existence

Sir Sidney Nolan visiting the Burren. Photograph: The Burren College of Art

Five art shows to see this week

Aidan Dunne
July 7, 2018

Sir Sidney Nolan paitings related to his family links with Ireland on show in the Burren

From: At Mirrored River, Enda Bowe

Art in Focus: Enda Bowe – At Mirrored River

Aidan Dunne
July 7, 2018

Lives and dreams in a midlands town captured in beautiful photographs

Roderic O’Conor: Self-Portrait, from 1903. Photograph © National Gallery of Ireland

Roderic O’Conor: Ireland’s great forgotten painter

Aidan Dunne
July 7, 2018

A spectacular exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland celebrates the post-impressionist

Lady Louisa Conolly by Anne Valérie Dupond (2018)

On a Pedestal: contemporary takes on the classical portrait bust

Aidan Dunne
July 3, 2018

A thoughtful exhibition at the Long Gallery in Castletown House, Kildare

Light Painting Orange, Catherine Owens, Oliver Sears Gallery

Five must-see visual art exhibitions this week

Aidan Dunne
June 30, 2018

Face to Face, Life at the Edges, View from Donegal, School of Looking and 6am

Marlene Dumas, Self-portrait at Noon, 2008, oil on canvas, 90 x 100 x 3 cm. Collection De Pont Museum, Tilburg (NL). Photograph: Peter Cox

Art in Focus: Self-portrait at Noon, Marlene Dumas

Aidan Dunne
June 30, 2018

A powerful contemporary painter of the human condition

Elon Musk tweeted a photo of one of his original mugs featuring his cartoon drawing of a unicorn farting electricity. Photograph: Elon Musk/Twitter

Tesla CEO Elon Musk drawn into farting unicorn mug dispute

June 28, 2018

Tom Edwards was thrilled to hear CEO was a fan, until he saw Tesla using his work without permission

Ursula Burke picks up on the updating theme with Balaclava Bust (2014)

Art of the head: the portrait bust is having a moment

Gemma Tipton
June 27, 2018

A new exhibition at Castletown House proves the portrait bust is very much back in vogue

Tremble Tremble, Jesse Jones, installation view, Project Arts Centre

The persistence of the feminine, embodied in the witch, demonised, and hounded

Aidan Dunne
June 26, 2018

Jesse Jones’s Venice Biennale exhibition proposes an alternative, feminist creation and foundation myth

’Moonlight’ by Rockwell Kent. Courtesy of the Plattsburgh State Art Museum

‘Before Cong got John Wayne, Glencolmcille got Rockwell Kent’

Fionola Meredith
June 23, 2018

New BBC documentary explores the US painter who first visited Donegal in the 1920s

The scene at Newmarket Square during the Street Feast Fusion Market party in Dublin. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Dublin city’s community and nightlife are under threat

Róisín Agnew
June 23, 2018

Opinion: Young Dubliners are losing communal spaces to commercial interests

The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife: a detail from Daniel Maclise’s vast painting. © National Gallery of Ireland

Art in Focus: Daniel Maclise – The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife

Aidan Dunne
June 23, 2018

We have ‘Avengers: Infinity War’. In the 1850s they had Maclise and his boundless imagination

Still.Like: Life Drawing No 5 by Mary Ruth Walsh, from Wexford Arts Centre’s exhibition

Four essential visual art exhibitions to see in Ireland this week

Aidan Dunne
June 23, 2018

Traveller Collection, Bower, Stampa Ora and Still.Life, and a portrait prize you can enter

BalehomeBalehome by Katie Watchorn: A length of yellow hose forms a sinuous line of beauty across the floor. Installation view, Ros Kavanagh.

Visual: a richly textured, intense and unpredictable show

Aidan Dunne
June 19, 2018

Summer exhibitions invite us to consider our relationship to the land around us

Robert Pinsky, painted by Mick O’Dea in 2015: the artist is known for the conversational informality of his approach

Art in Focus: Mick O’Dea – Robert Pinsky

Aidan Dunne
June 16, 2018

The artist painted the poet’s portrait during his Kilkenny Arts Festival residency

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