by jabrenna | Nov 6, 2023 | Uncategorised
First published in the VAN (Visual Artists News Sheet) 9 September 2022. Back in late-nineties Belfast, a loose agreement was formed between several like-minded artists in the east of the city to organise a group exhibition in a local venue. Said venue cancelled...
by jabrenna | Nov 6, 2023 | Uncategorised
First published in the VAN (Visual Artists News Sheet) 21 November 2022. Viewing Ron Mueck’s current show at The MAC (29 July – 5 November) I find myself grasping for reference points. Firstly, from art history: from seventeenth-century Spanish polychrome sculpture to...
by jabrenna | Nov 6, 2023 | Uncategorised
‘OXYgen’ at Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, is an exhibition of recent work by Dublin-based artist, Aoife Shanahan. Lining the gallery’s Project Space, 14 monochrome silver gelatin prints are organised as a pair, two groups of three and a larger sequence of...
by jabrenna | Nov 6, 2023 | Uncategorised
First published in the VAN (Visual Artists News Sheet) 18 March 2022. Ronnie Hughes’s solo show, ‘Isobar’, comprises 21 works on canvas, linen and plywood (from 2020 and 2021) as well as a series of 11 works on paper (from 2015). The former range considerably in...
by jabrenna | Nov 6, 2023 | Uncategorised
In a past which now feels distant (but was in fact was only weeks ago) when the term ‘social distancing’ had only just been coined and the concept of having to self-isolate was inconceivable, there was a symposium organised in Belfast focusing on what seems the very...
by jabrenna | Nov 6, 2023 | Uncategorised
First published in the VAN (Visual Artists News Sheet), 27 June 2019. ‘A Harlot’s Progress’ refers to William Hogarth’s series of the same name – a moral tale of the short life of one Moll Hackabout, who travels from the countryside to London, falls into...
