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 […]
Monthly Archives: December 2023
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
Declan Long: essays & reviews 