The persistence of the feminine, embodied in the witch, demonised, and hounded
Jesse Jones’s Venice Biennale exhibition proposes an alternative, feminist creation and foundation myth
JP Donleavy, the artist: mad planets and strange fish
Painting was his first love, and the author allegedly wrote The Ginger Man in a pique after his work received a lukewarm reception
A race against time in a macabre labyrinth
Kathlyn O’Brien speculates on identity and mortality in ‘Altered Light’, while Michael Beirne creates strange, hallucinatory visions of his own inner world in ‘Sahasrara’
The tricky ethics of painting human suffering
Brian Maguire’s paintings try to address the experiences of society’s outsiders
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The German artist Vera Klute does not take a cosy view of motherhood and family
Visual art: Sabine Mac Mahon finds a cure for 1916 fatigue
Mac Mahon’s exhibition invites us to examine the construction of cultural myths both old and modern
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Three artists at Hillsboro share a love for a great Italian tradition; and Catherine Barron throws herself into her work
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