Coming in a few weeks, from Manchester University Press… http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784991449/
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 […]
