For the new preface to the paperback edition of Ghost-Haunted Land: Contemporary Art & Post-Troubles Northern Ireland, I wrote about Cathy Wilkes, Anna Burns and more. The Irish Times has published an adapted version of the text. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/dusk-in-venice-cathy-wilkes-and-anna-burns-cast-a-belfast-shadow-over-british-pavilion-1.4165475
Review of of Dorothy Cross’s recent Kerlin Gallery exhibition — for the December Artforum. https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201910/dorothy-cross-81465
A few thoughts on some recent ups and downs in Dublin, written for Art Review. https://artreview.com/features/ar_november_2019_dublin_declan_long/
A ‘Close-up’ feature on Derek Jarman’s extraordinary painting ‘Fuck Me Blind’ — written for the November issue of Artforum. https://www.artforum.com/print/201909/declan-long-on-derek-jarman-s-fuck-me-blind-1993-81074
Artforum review of a retrospective by the late painter Stephen McKenna at Visual Carlow. https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201905/stephen-mckenna-79625
I’ve an essay on the work of the English painter Phoebe Unwin in this fine new book, published following Phoebe’s exhibition at Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy. http://www.collezionemaramotti.org/documents/20182/261307/book+sheet+Unwin.pdf/eee05ac4-e525-42f8-af4d-1453dac11a7d
