An essay to accompany a new film by Willie Doherty, commissioned and screened online by Kerlin Gallery (Dublin), Galerie Peter Kilchmann (Zurich) and Alexander & Bonin (New York. “Willie Doherty: Endless” — Essay. The film screens on the gallery websites until June 16th.
A short text for the special feature on ‘Four Decades on Irish Sculpture’ in the recent (100th) issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet. Some scholars of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement hail it as a model of ‘constructive ambiguity’ — an artfully uncertain structure, open-ended enough to invite contrasting interpretations of its contents. Evasive language […]
For Paper Visual Art:
A short text published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘and the days run away like wild horses over the hills’, Scoil Lorcáin, Seapoint, Dublin, 31 July – 7 August 2019, curated by John O’Donoghue. All the stars are closer Lately, when I should be filling my time more productively, I’ve been playing with an […]
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
