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

Painting was his first love, and the author allegedly wrote The Ginger Man in a pique after his work received a lukewarm reception

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’

Brian Maguire’s paintings try to address the experiences of society’s outsiders

The German artist Vera Klute does not take a cosy view of motherhood and family

Mac Mahon’s exhibition invites us to examine the construction of cultural myths both old and modern

Three artists at Hillsboro share a love for a great Italian tradition; and Catherine Barron throws herself into her work