Review of Duncan Campbell’s The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, in the June issue of Artforum. https://www.artforum.com/inprint/issue=201706§ion=dublin
Review of Philip Allen’s recent exhibition ‘Deepdrippings’, in the May Artforum. https://www.artforum.com/inprint/issue=201705&id=67967
A few words of tribute to the wonderful Mark Fisher, who passed away on the 13th of January this year. Mark wrote a column for Ireland’s Visual Artists’ News Sheet and my reflections on his work introduce a re-print of one of these pieces in the new March-April issue. (Both texts attached). mark-fisher_the-game-has-changed_van declan-long_mark-fisher I’ve […]
A piece for Paper Visual Art on Jaki Irvine — and some of the issues around Ireland’s 1916 centenary commissions… http://papervisualart.com/2017/02/13/if-the-ground-should-open/
1. One way to begin thinking about Michael John Whelan’s Frontier (2016) – an elliptical cinematic travelogue, partly shot on the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, and informed by a rich mixture of natural science and local lore – could be to keep things simple. It might make sense, at first, to focus on […]
For this exhibition at Pallas Projects, Brian Duggan, Sarah Glennie, Jenny Haughton and I were asked to select some artworks, documents, publications or other bits and pieces that related to memorable moments, tendencies, issues, practices or whatever else in Irish art over the last twenty years. http://www.pallasprojects.org/ I picked some works and related things by […]
