ANNA BARDEN’S GAME WITH CHESS AND HORSES (and sometimes flowers and cats) | Written by Theo Dorgan
The game of chess — long a preoccupation of Anna Barden’s — can be quite deceptive. We think of it as cerebral, the unfolding of […]
Exhibition Texts
Illusions of space and the delusion of independence in Stephen Hobbs’ installation ‘House Arrest in Pink’ | Written by Sarah Long
The self-evident truth “I am mortal” comes with age. This reference to age is often taken the wrong way, misunderstood – it’s seen as coquetry:
Clandestine Reflections | Written by Laurence Counihan
It is a Sunday (I think) and I am a child in my parents ’car as we go for a drive. I recall a moment
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Becoming Chess | Written by Laurence Counihan
When your king, as a result of your inexperience, lack of attention, imprudence, or the opponent’s superiority, is ever more closely threatened (but the threat
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The Future Tense of Infrastructural Decay | Written by Laurence Counihan
The process of decay constructs the idea only as a byproduct of the differential regurgitation of a shriveling body which is in the process of
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All the Living and All the Dead in Myfanwy Frost-Jones’ Film Unsustainable | Written by Sarah Long
What kind of case is a case of a ghost? It is a case of haunting, a story about what happens when we admit the
The Potential of the New Gaelic Revival in Bríanna Ní Léannacháin’s film-installation Tonnadh // Fuaim an Toinne | Written by Sarah Long
‘History tells of Clíodhna, a member of the Tuatha Dé Dannan/ was drowned on the shore of Glandore as she slept/ by a wave sent
Dear Little Box an exhibition | Written by Nicola Sheehan
Using her fingers, the maid pried open the lid of the great jar, Sprinkling its contents; her purpose, to bring sad hardships to mankind. Nothing
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‘Of Other, and Possibility’ by Backwater Artists Network artist Samir Mahmood at MART
The solo exhibition ‘Of Other, and Possibility’ by Backwater Artists Network artist Samir Mahmood Samir worked with curator Rachel Botha towards this very timely showcase, “I feel
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Eternity and Forgetting: On the Melancholy of Abstraction | Written by Laurence Counihan
The theory of thought is like painting: it needs that revolution which took art from representation to abstraction. This is the aim of a theory
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