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Independent writer and critic and curator of contemporary art and architecture. Based in Dublin. Contributes regularly to art and architectural publications, catalogue essays, discussions, lectures, radio and television in Ireland and internationally. Editor of Space: Architecture for Art; and author of Home, a study of contemporary memorials.
Beyond the confines of artworld discourse, price is one of the main ways by which many people come to negotiate a sense of value in art. More than the endorsement of major museum shows, it is through newspaper hype attending to auction results, and Read on…
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
16 January – 16 February
and other shows in Ireland
Exploring an interest in the precarious balances that exist within the human body and mind, Cecily Brennan’s ‘Balancing’ exposes the fragility of the equilibrium between such oppositions as health and illness, preservation and harm, Read on…
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
30 June – 27 August
The most satisfying exhibitions, in my experience, are one-person shows: exhibitions where the selected works of a single artist can build to develop a narrative, a stronger sense of itself, a (as the Holywood marketeers might put it) Read on…
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
1 October – 27 November
I've sometimes wondered what would happen if you were able to draw a map of the art world, all the lines and networks, the threads of connection, the intersections and the divergences. What would it look like? Or what if you could plot your day on Read on…
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
20 October – 30 November
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