Jan McCullough, I Took a Hammer in My Hand, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, 21 February–3 May 2026

Francis Halsall

21 July 2026

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Andy Fitz, Now now, VISUAL, Carlow, 31 January–10 May 2026

While I found myself taken by the work’s aesthetic pull, I could not escape the anxiety and fragility Fitz makes so viscerally present.

Sara Muthi

16 June 2026

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    Statues were in the main a little too small fry for the Nazis, who preferred the more ambient terror of architecture and spectacle ...

    Rebecca O'Dwyer

    4 June 2026

    10 Minutes

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    Phillip Allen, Deep Waiting, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, 31 January–7 March 2026

    These multi-coloured accretions function like a frame, encasing the pictorial plane ... To my eye, they resemble chewed-up wads of tissue paper...

    Tom Lordan

    22 May 2026

    6 Minutes

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    Fiona Marron, The centrality of bodies, Pallas Projects/Studios, 12 March–28 March 2026

    There is the sense that Marron is trying to capture some sense of her role as a potential contaminant within these systems.

    Dennis McNulty

    16 April 2026

    8 Minutes

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    Elizabeth Magill, born in Northern Ireland in 1959, studied in Belfast and at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.

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    Suzanne van der Lingen: Ark, The Joinery, 18 – 23 May, 2011.

    A palimpsest of stories – personal and archival, absurd and historical – structure the work and give it layers of meaning...

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    The act of describing an artwork well is an aesthetic and reflective/philosophic undertaking in and of itself.

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    29 April 2016

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