On Isabel Nolan in PVA

In Paper Visual Art 12 I was lucky enough to get to write about Isabel Nolan’s ‘Curling up with reality’, … More

On Seamus Deane via IHA blog

“Seamus Deane, who sadly died in May 2021, was a towering figure in Irish intellectual, cultural and literary life. The … More

On Harry Gruyaert in Source

Harry Gruyaert’s Irish Summers was published in 2020 by Gallery Fifty One. It’s a selection of Gruyaert’s photographs of Ireland … More

Worlds Without Ends conversation

‘Worlds Without Ends: Stories Around Borders’ is The Hugh Lane Gallery’s current group exhibition, “a rich and diverse series of … More

Review of Enda Bowe in Source

In Source 102 I review Enda Bowe’s ‘Love’s Fire Song’, currently on exhibition in the Gallery of Photography: “In undoing … More

Letters to Iceland, with Rosita Boland & Selina Guinness

On of the most enjoyable writing ventures I’ve taken part in in recent years is ‘Letters to Iceland’, a round … More

Wolfgang Tillmans and Brexit at IMMA

My lecture at IMMA from February on Wolfgang Tillmans and Brexit is now on the IMMA Soundcloud site:

Finished and Under Construction

It was a great pleasure to speak at the Finished and Under Construction conference at Queen’s University Belfast on 1st … More

Form Ever Follows Function

Ireland’s most innovative art and literature magazines, The Pickled Body and gorse, have joined forces to present a groundbreaking exhibition at Illuminations, the … More

‘Traditional’ in Ontology of the Artefact

I have a short piece in a publication associated the NCAD exhibition of Ailbhe Ni Bhrian’s latest film installation, Inscriptions of … More