by jabrenna | Nov 6, 2023 | Uncategorised
Somebody turned to me and said: “It’s like when you see a gallery opening in an American film; it looks a bit like this.” We were three floors up, not quite a New York loft, rather a high-spec office block, with metallic flooring, industrial lighting, and whitewashed...
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...
