Backwater Artists

David Barrett is an artist of great humility. He is neither philosopher nor poet nor politician. He doesn’t seek to convey through his works any […]

The Backwater Twenty-10 publication can be viewed/purchased at blurb.com This publication brings together the work of over 120 artists who have passed through Backwater Studios over

In the late nineteen eighties when I graduated from college, Cork city was a very different place. The visual arts had no major impact on

A Building Block into the Future Sometimes the phrase ‘Infrastructure for the Arts’ is used to describe the basic space and equipment that is necessary