Category Archives: Writing

Art Writing: Column – Notes on Being Human, Jan – Feb 2025 VAI News Sheet

My column ‘Notes on Being Human’ in the January – February 2025 issue of Visual [...]

Art Writing: Review -Debbie Godsell’s ‘Flail’ at Source Arts Centre, Sept-Oct 2024

Review of Debbie Godsell’s ‘Flail’ at Source Arts Centre, 14 Sept-19 Oct 2024, published Visual [...]

Art Writing: Catalogue essay -Carapace, Niamh McGuinne at Highlanes Gallery 2023

Carapace, published 2024 by Highlanes Gallery on the occasion of Niamh McGuinne’s 2023 solo exhibition. [...]

Art writing: Exhibition text -New Neighbours – Olivia O’Dwyer & Fergal Styles, South Tipperary Arts Centre

Exhibition text: New Neighbours – Olivia O’Dwyer & Fergal Styles showing at South Tipperary Arts [...]

Art Writing: Review -Olivia O’Dwyer at Kevin Kavanagh

My critique of Olivia O’Dwyer at Kevin Kavanagh March April 2024 issue of The Visual [...]

Review: Ailbhe Ní Bhriain ‘Interval Two (Dream Pool)’ at Kerlin Gallery

Review of Ailbhe Ní Bhriain‘s exhibition ‘Interval Two (Dream Pool)’ at Kerlin Gallery for Source [...]

Olivia O’Dwyer, HomeBird : Kevin Kavanagh

I had the great pleasure of spending time with the work of Olivia O’Dwyer while [...]

Prize: Source Photographic Review Writers Prize 2023 for new writing

My essay HOLD ON was shortlisted for the Source Photographic Review Writers Prize 2023 for [...]

Published: ‘Jornada del Muerto’, VISUAL Carlow, Art and Ideas

My memoir writing, Jornada del Muerto,was published by VISUAL Carlow Art & Ideas in response to [...]

Column: How to Create a Fallstreak. Neva Elliott discusses her recent solo exhibition at Linenhall Arts Centre, Visual Artists Newsheet, March/April 2003

Visual Artists Newsheet March/April issue For VAN March/April issue’s latest new column series, Memento Mori, [...]

Column: ‘Saying Hard Things’, Visual Artists Newsheet, May/June 2023

Visual Artists Newsheet May/June issue In my column, I discuss the role of vulnerability in [...]

Catalogue essay: ‘The trash heap has spoken’ Midden Collective at the Luan Gallery

Catalogue essay for MIDDEN, exhibition by the Midden Collective; Sarah Edmondson, Mary Martin and Niamh McGuinne at the Luan [...]