My Visual Artist's News Sheet review of Naomi Sex's brilliant show DRILL, showing at VISUAL in Carlow until May 10th.
#vai #drill #naomisex #contemporaryart #review
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Great to be in @trinitycollegedublin this morning sharing my work as part of a 'Professional Practice ' Module collaborating with @ncad_dublin . So many hopeful souls
#contemporaryart #matters
Finally ended up next to a Berthe but thankfully not in the attic.
Grateful and humbled for this picture from a private collector who keeps my 2020 print next to a Morisot.
Haven't been here in a while, lots of life news, some of which might get shared in time.
#art #matters #goodcompany
Very happy to write this review of Ann Maria Healy's exhibition 'On the Wing, between Waves and Currents,' which showed at The Cash Shop, Gort, 12 April–7 June 2025.
Online at
Thanks so much to @suz.walsh , @stephane.hanly , @eilo8 and @happpychance for organising 'Exit Strategy,' a group exhibition that took place over the weekend. It's sad that this house, which was home to so many artists over the last 15 years, is slipping into the ether. It would be great if Dublin had more affordable homes, not just for artists but for everyone. It really seems like Dickensian times are ahead of us. Anyways, the work:
'Government'.
As a young woman, I met a dolphin skeleton on the beach, an encounter which had a profound effect on me. Emigrating in 2011 and unable to find a place for the dolphin, I planted it in the garden of my home at 27 Royal Canal Bank. When the notice of eviction arrived in 2024, I returned to retrieve my old acquaintance from the earth.
Plaster-filled teats support the bones and hold them down against the pull of black helium balloons to which they are bound by hair. The mirror, wetted with breastmilk, which both human and dolphin mothers feed their newborns, opens a portal through which the balloons collaborate with gravity to pull the bones back towards the earth. The whole precarious assemblage takes on the function of the connecting ligaments that have rotted away, reconstructing the spine and buoying it between densities.
Dolphin and artist are reunited as co-evictees, of past homes, past bodies, past wombs, past relations, past selves, and the past itself.
#government #housingcrisis #exhibition #art
#dolphin #dolphin #dolphin
Sneak peak of my new sculpture 'Government' opening tonight as part of the group show 'Exit Strategy's at 27 RCB. I'm in some very good company. Come along over the weekend if you can.
#exhibition #opening #art #dublin #paddysweekend
My review of 'Bogskin' at the RHA for the latest VAI News Sheet. It's a really interesting show - fifty years of artists responding to boglands in Ireland. Go, see!
#rha #visualartistsireland #newssheet #vai #review #art #bog
Delighted to have been entrusted with reviewing @ricardseiko.art 's practice in @irisharts_review . Catch it if you can.
#irisharts #irishartsreview #seikohayase #artpractice
Thank you Christchurch Cathedral for hosting the NCAD students of the Drawing Analysis and Synthesis Module in Fine Art Studio + today. There's so much to take in!
#history #olddublin #drawing #ncad #fineart #christchurchcathedral #dublin
HARD MOUTH SHOW & TELL
By Ella de Búrca.
A collaboration with Hugh Hick (pictured).
Continues through 29th March 2025.
The Cash Shop, Gort, Co. Galway H91VH21.
📷: @adam_stonegram
