Review of Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s recent show at Kerlin Gallery… https://www.artforum.com/events/declan-long-ailbhe-ni-bhriain-kerlin-gallery-2024-549797
I’ve a short essay on Laurie Anderson in this marvellous little book from the good folks at Paper Visual Art journal. Other contributions from: Ciaran Carson, Brian Dillon, Wendy Erskine, Aingeala Flannery, Peter Geoghegan, Colin Graham, M. John Harrison, Tabitha Lasley, Jayne A. Quan, McKenzie Wark, and Sydney Weinberg. You spin me round
Published earlier this year… /////////////////////////////////////////////////// In the twelve years since William McKeown’s untimely passing, the artist’s work has continued to resonate with new audiences worldwide, and the underlying quest of his work – for hope, freedom, connection, happiness, dancing, and oneness with nature – remains as vital as ever. The artist’s work was driven by […]
A text written for the online symposium ‘Seamus Heaney and the Visual Arts’ led by Adam Hanna at UCC & Glucksman Gallery in 2021. (https://www.ucc.ie/en/english/news/dr-adam-hanna-receives-irc-new-foundations-grant.html). ‘Vitruviana’ Seamus Heaney’s ‘Vitruviana’, from the 2001 collection Electric Light, makes three distinct connections between life and art: directly and indirectly alluding to the work of visual artists as the […]
Essay in the Irish University Review. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/iur.2023.0592
In the November issue of Artforum: my review of Jesse Jones’s The Tower at Rua Red, Dublin. https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202209/dublin
Declan Long: essays & reviews 