Myra Jago’s work operates in the juncture between perception and reality. The reflective nature of the work is embodied within dream-like vistas of fine oil surfaces, where absolute realism melds into myth, gravity into weightlessness and earthly concerns into ethereality. Now Islands considers our social and political climate. Artworks delve into current issues, confining each […]

Shea Dalton’s works for the RHA Ashford Gallery are the outcome of his research into the assimilation and recontextualisation of images or motifs, of ideas and influences, that create a fragile nexus of meaning which holds the work together. These modestly sized abstractions are an absorption of post minimalism and expressionism, but ultimately become neither […]

Niamh O’Malley’s exhibition, handle, consists of a large body of newly commissioned and recent work. The exhibition focuses on sculpture, and along with wood and glass, the artist uses steel as a visible component for the first time. It’s structural capacity and strength allows her to create vertical and horizontal lines within the gallery space. […]

Melanie le Brocquy’s (1919 – 2018) sculpture was distinguished by its scale – small but never diminutive, or, miniature. The excitement captured in the finished bronze referenced the decisions made, unmade and made again, in the way she modeled the clay. Her human and animal figures were animated by subtle gesture – the angle of […]

Cillín, an exhibition of new work by photographer Tommy Weir will open in the RHA Gallery this autumn and travel to The Dock in Carrick-on- Shannon and Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen. From the 7th Century, through the Middle Ages and continuing to the late 20th Century, unbaptised children were rarely buried in […]