Exhibition

News This week YBA Tracey Emin has some big news with the move of her most famous work to Tate Britain. Interestingly it's currently being displayed alongside two paintings by Francis Bacon, a painter well-known for also being a bit messy;…

News Impressive photos from Anish Kapoor’s “Descension” (2014) project at the Kochi Biennial.  Unexpectedly set into the gallery floor is a large, seemingly endless hole. In it, a vortex of black water perpetually froths and churns. The…

Last week I recommended Eternal Light as the exhibition of the week and the artist behind it, Katie O' Neill, kindly wrote a little about the process of getting the show, working with curator Noelle Collins and a little about her future…

News Eternal Light This week we're taking a trip outside the capital and my exhibition to see is Eternal Light, work by artist Katie O'Neill at TACTIC Gallery, Cork. Curated by Noelle Collins, the work was originally shown at Draiocht…

News This week I'm looking forward to the opening of Dream Lover at Eight Gallery, an exhibition by Sean Guinan, Ramon Kassam and Aidan O'Sullivan. All three are classmates and graduates of LSAD and each have kept up a strong painting…

News Sad news in visual, and indeed in general this week with the terrible events in Paris where four of the leading cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo were killed in a terrorist attack on their offices. Fellow cartoonists from around the world…

Happy New Year to all! It's still quiet round the art world at large but if you haven't caught it yet, Phoenix Rising: Art and Civic Imagination at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane is currently running and worth a look. This…

Patrick Hall was born near to both Birr Co. Offaly and Roscrea, Co. Tipperary in 1935 and he says that he made the decision to become a painter aged 22. He saw some paintings, particularly a painting by Georges Rouault in Dublin when he was…