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...

‘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...

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...